The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship in Alliances
研究了联盟中知识溢出如何影响创业机会，发现合作伙伴的知识保护能增加知识溢出，且受创业导向和联盟类型影响，知识溢出对联盟绩效的提升大于对企业绩效的提升。
We develop and examine a framework for the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship in alliances. Our framework regards entrepreneurial opportunity as endogenous, and entrepreneurial firms as heterogeneous. The empirical findings show that partners’ knowledge protection, which is regarded as a knowledge filter, can increase knowledge spillovers in an alliance. Moreover, this relationship is contingent on the strength of a focal firm's entrepreneurial orientation and on alliance type (equity joint venture versus nonequity joint venture). Results also reveal that knowledge spillovers in an alliance enhance alliance performance more significantly than they enhance firm performance.