The Paradox of being Open: External Technology Sourcing and Knowledge Protection
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This paper explores how a firm’s openness in its technology sourcing interplays with its simultaneous pursuit of knowledge protection strategies to enhance innovative performance. We argue that organizational knowledge protection mechanisms such as restricting employee mobility, secrecy and knowledge complexity influence the inverted-U relationship between a firm’s external technology sourcing and its innovative performance. We test our hypotheses on a sample of 2406 French manufacturing firms during 2002-2004 and find that employee retention facilitates firm efforts at capturing value from external technology sourcing, but secrecy and knowledge complexity attenuate those efforts.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011