Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate alliance partner diversity (APD) as a
driving force that potentially enhances firms' innovation generation (IG) in interfirm open …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the inverted U-shaped relationship between
external search in the collaboration network and firm innovation outcomes. It also seeks to …

Purpose This study aims to reveal the contribution mechanism of various types of intrafirm
networks formed among inventors to firms' searching for new knowledge. This study also …

We adopt a knowledge‐based perspective to investigate the individual and interaction
effects of partner geographic and organizational proximity on the innovative performance of …

Diverse R&D alliance partnerships not only provide access to broad external knowledge but
also bring considerable expenses caused by transaction costs and absorption problems …

Alliances are increasingly considered a key element for innovation, especially in knowledge‐
intensive firms. While this is true, the mere membership to alliances does not explain …

Purpose Although collaborative research is believed to be an important means of accessing
external knowledge, research on whether taking a strategic network position benefits new …

We explore how openness in terms of external linkages generates learning effects, which
enable firms to generate more innovation outputs from any given breadth of external …

Firms increasingly rely on alliances, joint ventures and other collaboration agreements to
develop their innovation activities (Bogers et al. 2017). The evidence that accessing external …

Purpose Openness to external knowledge has recently gained popularity as a means for
firms to complement and leverage internal knowledge in the pursuit of innovation outcomes …