Pipes, pools, and filters: How collaboration networks affect innovative performance

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1649-1666

  Singh, Harpreet ^a   Kryscynski, David ^b   Li, Xinxin ^c   Gopal, Ram ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

innovation; knowledge filter; knowledge pool; networks; pipes; tacit knowledge

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PIPE;

COLLABORATION NETWORK; COMPLEX PROCESSES; INNOVATIVE PERFORMANCE; KNOWLEDGE FILTER; KNOWLEDGE POOL; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS; TACIT KNOWLEDGE;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 84946426376     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2419     Document Type: Article

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