How should firms organize their pool of inventive human capital for firm-level innovation?
Although access to diverse knowledge may aid knowledge recombination, which can …

We extend the knowledge‐based view by providing an explanation of how firms develop the
capability to create knowledge. We take the view that firms are distributed knowledge …

Research Summary: Intra‐firm replication of complex knowledge is difficult yet critical to firm
growth and the exploitation of competitive advantage. Inter‐unit organizational structures …

The capacity to innovate impacts organizational performance and is crucial for competitive
advantage. However, as structural inertia sets in, large organizations tend to lose their ability …

Abstract Research Summary While innovation has increasingly become a collaborative
effort, there is little consensus in research about what types of team configurations might be …

As firms engage in building different R&D capabilities, they confront a crucial question: what
configuration of knowledge stocks is most likely to increase innovative success? This article …

This study examines how inventors' breadth and depth of expertise influence innovation in
3M, a company renowned for sustained innovation for over a century. While prior research …

Conceptualizing new knowledge development as a process of search and recombination,
we suggest that a focus on individual productivity alone presents an undersocialized view of …

Abstract Research Summary We investigate the implications of the degree assortativity of
intra‐firm networks for firms' innovation performance. We argue that prevalent patterns of …

Inventors are triply embedded. They are embedded in a network of knowledge components
that they can reuse in future inventions. They are embedded in an inventor network, where …