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 …

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 …

Whereas recent research on organizational innovation suggests that there is an ecology of
roles supporting the innovation process, the majority of network research has concentrated …

Research summary: Innovation requires inventors to have both new knowledge and the
ability to combine and configure knowledge (ie, combinatory knowledge), and such …

Research summary: When faced with a new technological paradigm, incumbent firms can
opt for internal development and/or external sourcing to obtain the necessary new …

Abstract Research Summary In this paper, we contribute to research on networks and
innovation by distinguishing between instrumental and affective ties and assessing their …

Innovation in firms is doubly embedded: in a social network of collaborations between
researchers, and in a knowledge network composed of linkages between knowledge …

Research linking interorganizational networks to innovation has focused on spanning
structural boundaries as a means of knowledge recombination. Increasingly, firms also …

To extend the knowledge-based view of the firm, we examine how managing the dynamic
balance that a firm must undertake between applying knowledge stocks and accessing …

This paper presents a model of innovation, knowledge brokering, that explains how some
organizations are able to routinely innovate by recombining their past knowledge in new …