Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Alliance Formation
研究了企业是否以及如何在联盟形成决策中平衡探索与利用行为，发现吸收能力和组织惯性在价值链功能、伙伴属性和网络位置方面施加了冲突压力，企业通过跨领域和时间来平衡这两种倾向。
Do firms balance exploration and exploitation in their alliance formation decisions and, if so, why and how? We argue that absorptive capacity and organizational inertia impose conflicting pressures for exploration and exploitation with respect to the value chain function of alliances, the attributes of partners, and partners' network positions. Although path dependencies reinforce either exploration or exploitation within each of these domains, we find that firms balance their tendencies to explore and exploit over time and across domains.