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Clustering and Connectedness: How Inventor Network Configurations within Incumbent Firms Influence Their Assimilation and Absorption of New Venture Technologies
Academy of Management Journal ( IF 10.5 ) Pub Date : 2020-06-17 , DOI: 10.5465/amj.2018.0225
Ji Youn (Rose) Kim 1 , H. Kevin Steensma 2 , Ralph A. Heidl 3
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We explore how an incumbent firm’s internal inventor network configuration influences its ability to assimilate and absorb new venture technologies. We find that incumbents that have internal inventor network configurations in which inventors are heavily clustered into cohesive subgroups of interconnected inventors are more likely to build on new venture technologies. We suggest that such networks engender specific social capital in terms of information conduits, trust, and common vernaculars that is ideal for inventors to translate and share with their cluster members the technological insights that they have derived from outside sources. Moreover, any insularity that may result from having cohesive clusters is mitigated by internal competition between clusters. In contrast, having a highly connected inventor network engenders social capital that impedes incumbents’ absorbing new venture technologies. Broadly distributed access to internal technology, combined with a strong social identity that results from high levels of connectedness, can lead to insularity and a “not invented here” ethos. We also find that highly connected internal inventor networks diminish any advantage that incumbent firms gain from having corporate venture capital investments in new ventures in terms of absorbing their technologies.

中文翻译:

集群和连通性:现有公司内的发明人网络配置如何影响他们对新风险技术的吸收和吸收

我们探讨了现有公司的内部发明人网络配置如何影响其吸收和吸收新风险技术的能力。我们发现,具有内部发明人网络配置的在职者更可能建立在新的风险技术之上,在这种配置中,发明人集中在相互关联的发明人的有凝聚力的子群中。我们建议,此类网络在信息渠道、信任和通用方言方面产生特定的社会资本,非常适合发明者翻译并与集群成员分享他们从外部来源获得的技术见解。此外,集群之间的内部竞争可以减轻因具有凝聚力集群而可能导致的任何孤立。相比之下,拥有高度连接的发明人网络会产生社会资本,阻碍现有企业吸收新的风险技术。对内部技术的广泛访问,再加上高度连通性导致的强烈社会认同,可能会导致孤立和“不是在这里发明”的精神。我们还发现,就吸收其技术而言,高度连接的内部发明人网络削弱了现有公司从对新企业进行企业风险资本投资中获得的任何优势。
更新日期:2020-06-17
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