Network Embeddedness in Exploration and Exploitation of Joint R&D Projects: A Structural Approach
研究了网络嵌入性如何影响联合研发项目的探索与利用绩效，发现不同结构性嵌入维度（度中心性、中介中心性、特征向量中心性）对两类项目绩效有不同影响，对项目管理和知识管理实践有参考价值。
Abstract This paper analyses how network embeddedness affects the exploration and exploitation of R&D project performance. By developing joint projects, partners and projects are linked to one another and form a network that generates social capital. We examine how the location, which determines the access to information and knowledge within a network of relationships, affects the performance of projects. We consider this question in the setup of exploration and exploitation projects, using a database built from an EU framework. We find that each of the structural embeddedness dimensions (degree, betweenness and eigenvector centrality) have a different impact on the exploration and exploitation project performance. Our empirical analysis extends to project management literature and social capital theory, by including the effect that the acquisition of external knowledge has on the performance of the project.