Inventors are triply embedded. They are embedded in a network of knowledge components
that they can reuse in future inventions. They are embedded in an inventor network, where …

Abstract Research Summary The paradox of rejecting novel ideas while being motivated to
select them exists in many realms. Deviating from prior research that investigated several …

How firms capture value from their innovations has long interested strategy and innovation
scholars. Prior work has focused on legal, economic, and social mechanisms for isolating …

Problem-solving in complex environments requires a cognitively demanding search for task
solutions. Managing this search process presents a major challenge in organizations. We …

The open innovation literature provides compelling evidence of value being created from
inbound knowledge flows. Missing from this conversation is an empirical understanding of …

Firms are in a continuous process of critically re‐evaluating their offshoring strategies due to
performance discrepancies. While prior research has focused on the implementation of …

We examine the role of knowledge diversity among unit members on an organizational unit's
productivity. Utilizing a proprietary data set of corrective maintenance tasks from a large …

Purpose This study aims to reveal the contribution mechanism of various types of intrafirm
networks formed among inventors to firms' searching for new knowledge. This study also …

This study investigates how intraorganizational search behavior of R&D professionals is
shaped by the organizational design for task collaboration between R&D units. More …

In the corporate underground, creative intrapreneurs produce ideas autonomously and
without the consent of management. Such informal activity frequently'corrects' and …