Organizing for Innovation: Managing the Coordination-Autonomy Dilemma in Technology Acquisitions
研究大型企业收购小型科技公司后，如何通过调整组织结构来平衡协调利用与保持自主探索的关系，发现结构整合对新产品推出的负面影响会随创新轨迹发展而消失。
Large, established firms acquiring small, technology-based firms must manage them so as to both exploit their capabilities and technologies in a coordinated way and foster their exploration capacity by preserving their autonomy. We suggest that acquirers can resolve this coordination-autonomy dilemma by recognizing that the effect of structural form on innovation outcomes depends on the developmental stage of acquired firms' innovation trajectories. Structural integration decreases the likelihood of introducing new products for firms that have not launched products before being acquired and for all firms immediately after acquisition, but these effects disappear as innovation trajectories evolve.