Structural Microfoundations of Innovation

Abstract

Conceptualizing new knowledge development as a process of search and recombination, we suggest that a focus on individual productivity alone presents an undersocialized view of human capital. Rather, we emphasize the importance of embedded relationships by individuals to effectively perform knowledge-generating activities. We rely on intraorganizational knowledge networks emerging through individual collaboration to identify actors who can positively influence their organization's knowledge outcomes. We study two types of such relational stars: integrators (outliers in centrality) and connectors (outliers in bridging behavior). We test our ideas using the patenting portfolios of 106 pharmaceutical firms from 1974 to 1998 predicting the effect of relational stars on their firm's quantity and quality of inventive output-proxies for the

Impact of IS Strategy and Technological Innovation Strategic Alignment on FirmPerformance

“…[31] regards technological innovation and creative destruction as the basis of competitive advantage for they critically influence market dynamics and competition. Innovation is critical to achieving operational efficiency and raising service quality [32]; reduces costs and risks, and improves performance [3]; and a vehicle of economic growth and competitive differentiation [33].…”

CEO Research Orientation, Corporate Context and Firm Innovation in the Biopharmaceutical Industry

“…Especially in the pharmaceutical industry, where firms have a strong incentive to file for patents, patent activity is commonly used for studies on innovation (Hagedoorn and Cloodt, 2003;Grigoriou and Rothaermel, 2014;Caner et al, 2017). Especially in the pharmaceutical industry, where firms have a strong incentive to file for patents, patent activity is commonly used for studies on innovation (Hagedoorn and Cloodt, 2003;Grigoriou and Rothaermel, 2014;Caner et al, 2017).…”

“…Especially in the pharmaceutical industry, where firms have a strong incentive to file for patents, patent activity is commonly used for studies on innovation (Hagedoorn and Cloodt, 2003;Grigoriou and Rothaermel, 2014;Caner et al, 2017). This choice implies that we forgo the potential of granted patents to proxy invention quality at the benefit of a more direct causal chain (Grigoriou and Rothaermel, 2014) -in both time and space. This allows us to count all patent applications (i.e., granted and pending applications) of the firms in our sample, filed for during the period of study.…”

O papel dos agentes de suporte à inovação no desenvolvimento de empresas de base

“…However, for the development of any kind of firm, not only the NTBF, it is necessary more than technical resources, that is, it is necessary other complementary competencies such as social capital (Grigoriou and Rothaermel, 2013;Hughes et al, 2007;Nicolaou and Birley, 2003;Paradkar et al, 2015;Wang, 2016), positive reputation (Lange et al, 2011;Rindova et al, 2007;Waeraas and Sataøen, 2015), access to information (Felin and Zenger, 2011;Kyriakopoulos, 2011), managerial knowledge (Coster and Butler, 2005;Lockett et al, 2005;Maehler et al 2009;Luggen, 2004;Paradkar et al, 2015;Rubin et al, 2015) and financial resources (Bertoni et al, 2011;Lindstrom and Olofsson, 2001;Santiago et al, 2014;Wonglimpiyarat, 2016).…”

“…Owing to the social network this literature is widely developed, approaching elements such as diffusion of knowledge (Choi et al, 2013), social ties formation (Grigoriou and Rothaermel, 2013;Hughes et al, 2007), use of social ties to access important assets to NTBF (Koçak and Can, 2014) and the gain of legitimacy to membership in a ISA (Totterman and Sten, 2005). In the other hand, in the extant managerial literature, there are several articles which address the importance of information and knowledge flows in the development of firms (e.g.…”