Managing Knowledge in Loosely Coupled Networks: Exploring the Links between Product and Knowledge Dynamics
指出企业掌握的技术知识多于其实际生产所需，提出企业应根据组件间的系统依赖性和知识基础变化速度来调整知识边界与生产边界，并分析这种不完全重叠对企业外部关系管理的影响。
The contemporary literature concentrates on ‘make or buy’ decisions in design and production activities, assuming that decisions about the underlying fields of technological knowledge will automatically be the same. Building on previous research on multitechnology firms and products, this paper argues that firms know more about technology than they apply in their own production. We propose two major dimensions according to which firms should adjust their knowledge and production boundaries, namely systemic interdependencies across components and uneven rate of change across components’ underlying knowledge bases. We analyse the implications of this less‐than‐perfect overlap between knowledge and production boundaries for the management of firms’ external relationships.