2003
DOI: 10.1080/1043859032000061134
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Information sharing and the stability of cooperation in research joint ventures*

Abstract: CIRANOLe CIRANO est un organisme sans but lucratif constitué en vertu de la Loi des compagnies du Québec. Le financement de son infrastructure et de ses activités de recherche provient des cotisations de ses organisationsmembres, d'une subvention d'infrastructure du ministère de la Recherche, de la Science et de la Technologie, de même que des subventions et mandats obtenus par ses équipes de recherche. Reproduction partielle permise avec citation du document source, incluant la notice ©. Short sections may be… Show more

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“…The larger the partner's absorptive capacity, the larger the portion of knowledge spillovers that this partner can assimilate. This complex ambiguity, from our view, partly explains the caution that firms have in engaging in R&D cooperation and the very detailed contracts related to the respective agreements (see, e.g., Atallah (2003)). …”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The larger the partner's absorptive capacity, the larger the portion of knowledge spillovers that this partner can assimilate. This complex ambiguity, from our view, partly explains the caution that firms have in engaging in R&D cooperation and the very detailed contracts related to the respective agreements (see, e.g., Atallah (2003)). …”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Atallah (2003) shows that firms will not disclose their knowledge to their RJV partners (insiders) if leakage of knowledge to rivals which are not RJV partners (outsiders) exceeds a critical level. The latter is increasing (decreasing) in the number of insiders (outsiders).…”
Section: Proposition 1 the Upstream Firm Will Always Transfer All Of mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…According to Flextronics' management the company "had been able to erect 'fire walls' to prevent proprietary information from leaking between competitors". 5 The credibility of such promises, however, is questionable if the supplier benefits from knowledge transmission. Then the disclosed knowledge may be opportunistically misappropriated by the supplier, which immediately raises the question of how much knowledge the buyer should disclose in the first place.…”
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“…Given that most papers model duopolistic industries, this is an acceptable assumption in those settings. Some papers have looked more closely at the membership of the consortium (De Bondt and Wu, 1997;Katz, 1986;De Bondt et al, 1992;Poyago-Theotoky, 1995;Kamien and Zang, 1993;Yi, 1998Yi, , 1999Yi and Shin, 2000;Atallah, 2003). However, in these papers firms are typically symmetric, so even if those models inform us about the size of the consortium, they have little to say about the identity of its members.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%