Beyond Local Search : Boundary - Spanning, Exploration, and Impact in The Optical Disk Industry  

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Rsenkopf, Lori ; Nerkar, Atul

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Strategic Management Journal vol. 22 no. 4 (2001), page 287-306.
Topik: INDUSTRY; innovation; exploration; knowledge creation; boundary - spanning; patent data

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS30.7 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Recognition of the firm's tendency toward local search has given rise to concepts celebrating exploration that overcomes this tendency. To move beyond local search requires that exploration span some boundary, be it organizational or technological. While several studies have encouraged boundary - spanning exploration, few have considered both types of boundaries systematically. In doing so, we create a typology of exploration behaviours : local exploration spans neither boundary, external boundary - spanning exploration spans the firm boundary only, internal spans both boundaries. Using this typology, we analyze the impact of knowledge generated by these different types of exploration on subsequent technological evolution. In our study of patenting activity in optical disck technology, we find that exploration that does not span organizational boundaries consistently geenerates lower impact on subsequent technological evolution. In addition, we find that the impact of exploration on subsequent technological evolution within the optical disk domain is highest when the exploration spans organizational boundaries but not technological development beyond the optical disk domain is greatest when exploration spans both organizational and technological boundaries.

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