All for One and One for All: How Intrafirm Networks Affect the Speed of Knowledge Recombination

Solon Moreira; Arjan Markus

All for One and One for All: How Intrafirm Networks Affect the Speed of Knowledge Recombination

Solon Moreira, Arjan Markus

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Abstract

Drawing on absorptive capacity and social network theory, we examine the effect of intrafirm network closure, tie strength, and diversity on firms? recombination speed of technologically distant external knowledge. Results from an event history study of 113 pharmaceutical firms, which engage in technology licensing in the period 1986-2003, reveal that the time to recombine external knowledge into own invention increases with technological distance. However, intrafirm co-invention network closure and diversity shorten the time to recombine distant external knowledge. These results mark the importance of inventors? knowledge networks as antecedent of the speed with which firms can absorb
external knowledge.

Original language	English
Publication date	Jun 2013
Number of pages	38
Publication status	Published - Jun 2013
Event	The 35th DRUID Celebration Conference 2013: Innovation, Strategy and Entrepreneurship: Competitiveness and Dynamics of Organizations, Technologies, Systems and Geography - ESADE Business School, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain Duration: 17 Jun 2013 → 19 Jun 2013 Conference number: 35 http://druid8.sit.aau.dk/registrant/index/login/cid/13

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Conference	The 35th DRUID Celebration Conference 2013: Innovation, Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Number	35
Location	ESADE Business School, Ramon Llull University
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Barcelona
Period	17/06/2013 → 19/06/2013
Other	The DRUID Society Conference 2013
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