Jiang, Jie (Eve) ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5461-1574 and Zhang, Qihang (2023) Boundary spanning strategy and tacit knowledge recombination: analysis of joint‐patent networks of patent‐intensive firms. Managerial and Decision Economics, 44 (6). pp. 3585-3603. ISSN 0143-6570 (Print), 0143-6570 (Online) (doi:10.1002/mde.3897)

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Abstract

This paper collects 103 sample firms' 2015 to 2019 data through data envelopment analysis to measure their technical innovation performance and social network analysis to build joint-patent networks and explore knowledge-creating alliance relationships. The article highlights how tacit knowledge recombination works as a mechanism of boundary spanning. It emphasizes the significance of strategic balancing networks' position to improve technical innovation performance and competitiveness of patent-intensive (PI) firms. This research contributes to shedding additional light on the nature of the boundary-spanning mechanism and PI firms' knowledge exchanges. Specifically, it examines how balancing boundaries spanning through joint-patent networks can influence the processes of tacit knowledge transmission and recombination between knowledge-based actors.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	boundary spanning; tacit knowledge recombination; technical innovation performance; joint-patent networks
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Business Greenwich Business School > Networks and Urban Systems Centre (NUSC)
Related URLs:	https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/...
Last Modified:	02 Dec 2024 15:55
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/46482

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