Opportunity Creation in Innovation Networks: Interactive Revealing Practices
研究了在早期探索性合作中,企业如何在保护自身利益的同时分享私有知识,通过互动揭示实践来维持联合机会创造。
Innovating in networks with partners that have diverse knowledge is challenging. The challenges stem from the fact that the commonly used knowledge protection mechanisms often are neither available nor suitable in early stage exploratory collaborations. This article focuses on how company participants in heterogeneous industry networks share private knowledge while protecting firm-specific appropriation. We go beyond the prevailing strategic choice perspectives to discuss interactive revealing practices that sustain joint opportunity creation in the fragile phase of early network formation.