ABSTRACT Innovation is about individuals collaborating to share existing knowledge and create new knowledge. Increasingly these collaborations cross organisational boundaries, like in R&D alliances. Many of these alliances are coopetitive, partners cooperate, but also compete with each other. Although knowledge sharing in coopetitive settings has been studied on the firm and the unit level, the micro (individual) level is underresearched. We consider individual alliance-related work performance of alliance members in a (moderately) coopetitive R&D alliance, drawing on social network theory and the organisational coordination perspective. We examine the influence of individual alliance members’ position and level of activity in the alliance advice network on their work performance. We also examine the substitutive role of the alliance formal network, representing the official channels of knowledge sharing. We suggest that individuals’ work performance is better explained by their position in the formal network, rather than in the advice network.

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跨组织团队中的知识共享：咨询网络的作用和正式网络在研发联盟中的替代作用

摘要 创新是关于个人合作共享现有知识和创造新知识。这些合作越来越多地跨越组织边界，例如在研发联盟中。这些联盟中有许多是竞争性的，合作伙伴合作，但也相互竞争。尽管在公司和单位层面对合作竞争环境中的知识共享进行了研究，但微观（个人）层面的研究不足。我们利用社会网络理论和组织协调的视角，在（中等）合作研发联盟中考虑联盟成员与联盟相关的个人工作绩效。我们研究了联盟建议网络中单个联盟成员的位置和活动水平对其工作绩效的影响。我们还考察了联盟正式网络的替代作用，代表了知识共享的官方渠道。我们建议个人的工作表现最好由他们在正式网络中的位置来解释，而不是在建议网络中。