An empirical investigation of firm public and private knowledge
研究发现企业公共知识与私有知识是两种不同的构念，对创新结果有显著且不同的影响：公共知识减少质量缺陷，私有知识反而增加质量缺陷。
Abstract Many studies examine firm private knowledge, but purport to be generalizable to the totality of firm knowledge, both public and private. This study demonstrates that public and private firm knowledge are empirically separable constructs that have significant and yet different influences on innovative outcomes. The example of product development effectiveness within this study shows that both public and private knowledge are significantly related to product development quality; however, public knowledge is negatively related to quality lapses while private knowledge is positively related to quality lapses. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.