Managing Knowledge Sharing-Protecting Tensions in Coupled Innovation Projects among Several Competitors
研究了多个竞争企业合作创新项目中，如何通过正式和非正式机制管理知识共享与保护之间的张力，以伽利略项目为例，发现集中式项目结构能促进正式知识共享并防止知识泄露。
While collaborating with several competitors on coupled innovation projects requires smooth knowledge sharing to ensure the project’s success, protecting knowledge is also essential due to the prevailing risks of coalition formation, opportunism, and knowledge leakage. Intense tensions between knowledge sharing and protection may arise and must be managed to avoid project failure. This article explores the formal and informal mechanisms used to manage these tensions. The case studied (Galileo) reveals the limited role of informal mechanisms to manage such tensions and shows how a centralized project structure encouraged the formal sharing of knowledge by protecting firms from unwanted knowledge transfers between competitors.