Communication channels, innovation tasks and NPD project outcomes in innovation‐driven horizontal networks
研究了创新驱动水平网络中，任务可分析性如何通过沟通渠道丰富性影响项目成果，发现任务越不明确越需要丰富渠道，丰富渠道能增强联系并缩短开发时间。
Abstract Inter‐organizational collaborations and horizontal networks are increasingly playing a pivotal role in innovations and new product development among firms. In this study, we investigate the link between the innovation task analyzability and the richness of communications channels used in network arrangements and the link between task analyzability and ties and project development time. We investigated the links based on the data collected from 372 respondents representing ninety three different innovation‐driven horizontal networks. The results of structural equation modeling reveal a negative link from task analyzability to communication channel richness and a positive link from communication channel richness to ties. Communication channel richness was found to partially mediate the influence that task analyzability has on both NPD project outcomes of ties and development time. The implications of our results for theory and practice are discussed.