Abstract

This article analyzes as to how organizational design impacts firms’ innovation success in integrating knowledge that they have obtained from external partners. Responding to the call for more quantitative empirical analyses on limits and boundary conditions of external knowledge, I provide findings of a study of 97 firms with multi-informants from the Western-European automotive industry. Based on multiple hierarchical regression analyses with robust standard errors, the study shows that organizational design (in particular specialization, formalization, communication/connectedness [non-] monetary rewards) acts as barrier for firms who strive to profit from integrating external knowledge.

中文翻译：

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从外部知识中获利的障碍：组织设计的作用

摘要

本文分析了组织设计在整合公司从外部合作伙伴获得的知识方面如何影响公司的创新成功。响应于对外部知识的界限和边界条件进行更定量的实证分析的呼吁，我提供了一项对来自西欧汽车行业的具有多信息人的97家公司的研究结果。基于具有稳健标准误差的多重层次回归分析，研究表明，组织设计（特别是专业化，形式化，沟通/联系[非]金钱报酬）为努力从整合外部知识中获利的公司构成障碍。