The Impact of Stocks and Flow of Organizational Knowledge on Firm Performance : An Empirical Investigation of The Biotecnology Industry  

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Deeds, David L. ; Decarolis, Donna Marie

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Strategic Management Journal vol. 20 no. 10 (1999), page 953-968.
Topik: FIRM; stocks and flows of knowledge; biotechnology; firm performance

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS30.4 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The knowledge - based view of the firm is a recent approach to understanding the relationship between firm capabilities and firm performance. Specifically, this approach suggests that knowledge generation, accumulation and application may be the source of superior performance. Other research has conceptualized organizational knowledge in terms of stocks of accumulated knowledge in the firm and flows of knowledge into the firm. This paper tests the relationship between stocks and flows organizational knowledge and firm performance in the biotechnology industry. We suggest that a firm's geographic location, alliances with other institutions and organizations and R & D expenditures are representative of knowledge flows, while products in the pipeline, firm citations and patents are indicative of knowledge stockes. Through factor analysis, we develop an aggregated measure of location form several variables. A regression model suggests that location is a significant predictor of firm perofrmance as are products in the pipeline and firm citations. A major contribution of this investigation is the operationalization of geographic location and its statistically significant link to firm performance.

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