The impact of global and local cohesion on innovation in the pharmaceutical industry
研究了企业内部研发合作网络中科学家之间的局部和全局凝聚力如何影响企业创新产出，发现局部凝聚力促进创新，全局凝聚力则抑制创新。
Abstract In this paper, we examine how the configuration of intraorganizational networks, and in particular, cohesion among members of an organization, influences organizations' innovative output. We argue that the cohesion among R&D scientists could be at a local level or a global level, and that local and global cohesion may have different impacts on firms' innovation performance. We test our hypotheses by examining the structure of the R&D collaboration networks within firms that operated in the pharmaceutical industry between 1981 and 1989, and their innovative outcomes—patents that led to new product launches. We find that local cohesion has a positive impact on the innovative performance of a firm, and global cohesion has a negative impact. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.