Networks, Proximities, and Interfirm Knowledge Exchanges

Interfirm networks and knowledge spillovers: Individual advantages or collective good?

The impact of networks on economic behavior is an innovative and emerging field in economics (Wilhite, 2006; Jackson, 2005). For example, recent studies highlight the role of interfirm network linkages to explain technological knowledge spillovers and innovation diffusion among firms. In this regard many empirical studies emphasize the importance of interaction patterns between firms for knowle...

Interfirm Alliance Interactions and knowledge Learning: A Conceptual Research Model

Alliance raises many knowledge transfer and interfirm learning issues that have implications for how the alliance partners manage their cooperative learning activities in the alliance system. Many of these implications are grounded in the assumption that partners in the alliances have routines for transferring knowledge, learning, gaining management efficiencies. Thus organisations can support ...

Strategic Alliances and Interfirm Knowledge Transfer

This paper examines interfirm knowledge transfers within strategic alliances. Using a new measure of changes in alliance partners' technological capabilities, based on the citation patterns of their patent portfolios. we analyze changes in the extent to which partner firms' technological resources 'overlap' as a result of alliance participation. This measure allows us to test hypothesesfrom the...

The Role of Relational Knowledge Stores in Interfirm Partnering

Information Strategies, Information Regimes, and the Topology of Interfirm Networks

We introduce a model of the dependence of the topology of interfirm networks on the distribution and commonality of information in a network and the information strategies pursued by its members firms. We examine the dynamic interactions between knowledge commonality and distribution on one hand, and network topology on the other hand. We derive predictions about the kinds of information strate...