Research Summary: We combine the absorptive capacity and social network theory
approaches to predict how intrafirm “whole” network characteristics affect the firm's speed of …

* All three authors contributed equally Paper accepted for publication in the Strategic
Management Journal. Version: October February 13, 2018, Word count, main body including …

Knowledge Diversity and Coordination network density are essential for a diversity of
knowledge inputs and coordinated actions regarding knowledge transfer which in turn …

Abstract Research Summary: We combine the absorptive capacityand social network theory
approaches to predict how intra-firm “whole” network characteristics affect the firm'sspeedof …

* All three authors contributed equally Paper accepted for publication in the Strategic
Management Journal. Version: October February 13, 2018, Word count, main body including …

Managerial summary: Firms keen to keep up with an uncertain and ever-changing industry
environment, can benefit from the speedy introduction of inventions. We examine how firms …

We combine the absorptive capacity and social network theory approaches to predict how
intrafirm" whole" network characteristics affect the firm's speed of absorption of external …

We combine the absorptive capacity and social network theory approaches to predict how
intrafirm “whole” network characteristics affect the firm's speed of absorption of external …

Research Summary: We combine the absorptive capacity and social network theory
approaches to predict how intrafirm “whole” network characteristics affect the firm's speed of …

Research Summary: We combine the absorptive capacity and social network theory
approaches to predict how intrafirm “whole” network characteristics affect the firm's speed of …