Changes in firm knowledge couplings and firm innovation performance: The moderating role of technological complexity
研究了企业知识耦合变化对创新绩效的影响，发现现有知识域间耦合变化会损害创新，但高复杂性时影响减弱；新旧知识域耦合则提升创新，但高复杂性时效果减弱。
We investigate the effect of changes in a firm's knowledge couplings on its innovation performance. We develop arguments to explain how changes in couplings among existing knowledge domains and those between new and existing knowledge domains affect the generation of valuable inventions. We also examine how observed domain complexity, an indicator of the inherent interdependencies among knowledge domains, moderates the effects of changes in a firm's knowledge couplings on innovation performance. Our results suggest that a change in couplings among existing knowledge domains hurts innovation outcomes, but not when the degree of domain complexity is high, whereas coupling new and existing knowledge domains leads to improved outcomes, but not when the degree of domain complexity is high . Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.