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      Knowledge Flows within Multinationals—Estimating Relative Influence of Headquarters and Host Context Using a Gravity Model
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      • August 2020
      • Article

      Workplace Knowledge Flows

      By: Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert and Christopher Stanton
      We conducted a field experiment in a sales firm to test whether improving knowledge flows between coworkers affects productivity. Our design allows us to compare different management practices and to isolate whether frictions to knowledge transmission primarily reside...  View Details
      Keywords: knowledge Sharing; Interpersonal Communication; Employees; Performance Productivity; Sales; Motivation And Incentives
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      Sandvik, Jason, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert, and Christopher Stanton. "Workplace Knowledge Flows." Quarterly Journal of Economics 135, no. 3 (August 2020): 1635–1680.
      • March 2020
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      Organizing Knowledge Production Teams Within Firms for Innovation

      By: Vikas A. Aggarwal, David H. Hsu and Andy Wu
      How should firms organize their pool of inventive human capital for firm-level innovation? While access to diverse knowledge may aid knowledge recombination, which can facilitate innovation, prior literature has focused primarily on one way of achieving that: diversity...  View Details
      Keywords: Knowledge Recombination; Organization Design; Team Boundary; Innovation; knowledge Sharing; Diversity; Innovation And Invention; Groups And Teams; Human Capital; Organizational Design
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      Aggarwal, Vikas A., David H. Hsu, and Andy Wu. "Organizing Knowledge Production Teams Within Firms for Innovation." Strategy Science 5, no. 1 (March 2020): 1–16.
      • 2020
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      The Gift of Global Talent: Innovation Policy and the Economy

      By: William R. Kerr
      Talent is the most precious resource for today’s knowledge-based economy, and a significant share of the U.S. skilled workforce in technology fields is foreign born. The United States has long held a leading position in attracting global talent, but the gap to other...  View Details
      Keywords: Global Talent Flows; Talent And Talent Management; Global Range; Immigration; Policy; Economy
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      Kerr, William R. "The Gift of Global Talent: Innovation Policy and the Economy." Chap. 1 in Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 20, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, 1–37. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2020.
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      Organizational Innovation in the Multinational Enterprise: Internalization Theory and Business History

      By: Teresa da Silva Lopes, Mark Casson and G. Jones
      This article engages in a methodological experiment by using historical evidence to challenge a common misperception about internalization theory. The theory has often been criticized for maintaining that it assumes a hierarchically organized MNE based on knowledge...  View Details
      Keywords: Internalization; Multinational Strategy; Business History; Entrepreneurship; Organization And Management Theory; Globalization; Entrepreneurship; Governance; History; Organizations; Theory; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; North And Central America
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      da Silva Lopes, Teresa, Mark Casson, and G. Jones. "Organizational Innovation in the Multinational Enterprise: Internalization Theory and Business History." Journal of International Business Studies 50, no. 8 (October 2019): 1338–1358.
      • 2019
      • Chapter

      Interorganizational Collaboration and Start-Up Innovation

      By: Vikas A. Aggarwal and Andy Wu
      This chapter presents an overview of the literature on collaborative relationships between start-ups and incumbent firms, focusing on the implications of these relationships for start-up innovation and performance. Value creation in such relationships occurs when...  View Details
      Keywords: Alliance; Corporate Venture Capital; Complementary Assets; Appropriability; Business Startups; Joint Ventures; knowledge; Innovation And Invention; Value Creation; Entrepreneurship
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      Aggarwal, Vikas A., and Andy Wu. "Interorganizational Collaboration and Start-Up Innovation." In The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship and Collaboration, edited by Jeffrey J. Reuer, Sharon Matusik, and Jessica F. Jones, 611–627. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      The Gift of Global Talent: Innovation Policy and the Economy

      By: William R. Kerr
      Talent is the most precious resource for today’s knowledge-based economy, and a significant share of the U.S. skilled workforce in technology fields is foreign born. The United States has long held a leading position in attracting global talent, but the gap to other...  View Details
      Keywords: Global Talent Flows; Talent And Talent Management; Global Range; Immigration; Policy; Economy
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      Kerr, William R. "The Gift of Global Talent: Innovation Policy and the Economy." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-116, May 2019.
      • 12 Aug 2018 - 14 Aug 2018
      • Conference Presentation

      Abstraction, Knowledge Flows, and the Rapid Dissemination of Emerging Technologies

      By: Willy C. Shih
      Many emerging technologies are remarkably complex and embody high levels of technological sophistication, and they often are key enablers for new products and services. Yet the speed of dispersal of the know-how required to employ these technologies and foster...  View Details
      Keywords: Emerging Technologies; Technological Innovation; knowledge Dissemination
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      Shih, Willy C. "Abstraction, Knowledge Flows, and the Rapid Dissemination of Emerging Technologies." In Strategic Management of Emerging Technologies. Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 12–14, 2018.
      • Summer 2018
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      Why High-Tech Commoditization Is Accelerating

      By: Willy C. Shih
      Knowledge embedded within state-of-the-art production and design tools is a powerful force that is leveling the global technology playing field. It democratizes innovation and makes future competition more challenging. This paper describes the knowledge flows through...  View Details
      Keywords: Product Design; Product Commercialization; Product Development; Product Development Strategy; Production; Manufacturing Tools; Manufacturing; Manufacturing Industry; Engineering; Globalization; Goods And Commodities; knowledge; Commercialization; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Hardware; Technology Adoption; Consumer Products Industry; Auto Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Electronics Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Information Technology Industry; North America; Asia
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      Shih, Willy C. "Why High-Tech Commoditization Is Accelerating." Art. 59420. MIT Sloan Management Review 59, no. 4 (Summer 2018): 53–58.
      • 2017
      • Working Paper

      Knowledge Flows within Multinationals—Estimating Relative Influence of Headquarters and Host Context Using a Gravity Model

      By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Mike Horia Teodorescu and Tarun Khanna
      From the perspective of a multinational subsidiary, we employ the classic gravity equation in economics to model and compare knowledge flows to the subsidiary from the MNC headquarters and from the host country context. We also generalize traditional economics gravity...  View Details
      Keywords: Multinationals; Knowledge Flows; Cosine Similarity; Gravity Model; Multinational Firms And Management; knowledge Dissemination; Business Headquarters; Immigration
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      Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Mike Horia Teodorescu, and Tarun Khanna. "Knowledge Flows within Multinationals—Estimating Relative Influence of Headquarters and Host Context Using a Gravity Model." Working Paper, July 2017.
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      Online Community as Space for Knowledge Flows

      By: Samer Faraj, Georg von Krogh, Eric Monteiro and Karim R. Lakhani
      Online communities frequently create significant economic and relational value for community participants and beyond. It is widely accepted that the underlying source of such value is the collective flow of knowledge among community participants. We distinguish the...  View Details
      Keywords: knowledge Sharing; Value Creation; Collaborative Innovation And Invention
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      Faraj, Samer, Georg von Krogh, Eric Monteiro, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Online Community as Space for Knowledge Flows." Information Systems Research 27, no. 4 (December 2016): 668–684.
      • September 2016
      • Case

      Hotel Vertu: Financing the Venture in the Boutique Hotel Industry

      By: Howard H. Stevenson and Michael J. Roberts
      Two recent MBA graduates are considering a business opportunity in the boutique hotel industry. Having found a seemingly attractive property in Savannah, Georgia, Yvonne D'Arcy and Elisabeth Whiting face questions about financing, deal structure, and unequal power...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Financing And Loans; Accommodations Industry
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      Stevenson, Howard H., and Michael J. Roberts. "Hotel Vertu: Financing the Venture in the Boutique Hotel Industry." Harvard Business School Brief Case 917-505, September 2016.
      • 2011
      • Book

      Managing Knowledge Assets, Creativity and Innovation

      By: Dorothy A. Leonard
      This book pulls together for the first time works on knowledge and innovation, including the implementation of new processes and products, written by Dorothy A. Leonard over more than two decades. It consists of articles from journals in diverse fields (e.g. the...  View Details
      Keywords: knowledge Management; Innovation And Invention
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      Leonard, Dorothy A. Managing Knowledge Assets, Creativity and Innovation. World Scientific, 2011.
      • March 2009
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      Applicant and Examiner Citations in U.S. Patents: An Overview and Analysis

      By: Juan Alcacer, Michelle Gittelman and Bhaven Sampat
      Prior art patent citations have become a popular measure of patent quality and knowledge flow between firms. Interpreting these measurements is complicated, in some cases, because prior art citations are added by patent examiners as well as by patent applicants. The...  View Details
      Keywords: Citations; Patents; knowledge Sharing; Measurement And Metrics; Quality; United States
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      Alcacer, Juan, Michelle Gittelman, and Bhaven Sampat. "Applicant and Examiner Citations in U.S. Patents: An Overview and Analysis." Research Policy 38, no. 2 (March 2009): 415–427.
      • 2007
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      Informational Complexity and the Flow of Knowledge across Social Boundaries

      By: Lee Fleming, J. Rivkin and O. Sorenson
      Keywords: Complexity; Boundaries; Information Management; knowledge Dissemination
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      Fleming, Lee, J. Rivkin, and O. Sorenson. "Informational Complexity and the Flow of Knowledge across Social Boundaries." In Applied Evolutionary Economics and Economic Geography, edited by K. Frenken. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007.
      • November 2006
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      Patent Citations as a Measure of Knowledge Flows: The Influence of Examiner Citations

      By: Juan Alcacer and Michelle Gittelman
      Analysis of patent citations is a core methodology in the study of knowledge diffusion. However, citations made by patent examiners have not been separately reported, adding unknown noise to the data. We leverage a recent change in the reporting of patent data showing...  View Details
      Keywords: Patents; knowledge Sharing; Management Analysis, Tools, And Techniques; Technology; Prejudice And Bias; Change
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      Alcacer, Juan, and Michelle Gittelman. "Patent Citations as a Measure of Knowledge Flows: The Influence of Examiner Citations." Review of Economics and Statistics 88, no. 4 (November 2006): 774–779.
      • 2006
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      Does Competition Increase Patent Litigation? Empirical Evidence of Strategic Patenting in the Telecom Equipment Industry

      By: Juan Alcacer and Rachelle C. Sampson
      Anecdotal evidence suggests that patent litigation has increased in the last 20 years as firms in knowledge intensive industries use patents more frequently to protect their knowledge stocks and managers focus on extracting new revenue streams from existing patent...  View Details
      Keywords: Patents; Competition; Lawsuits And Litigation
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      Alcacer, Juan, and Rachelle C. Sampson. "Does Competition Increase Patent Litigation? Empirical Evidence of Strategic Patenting in the Telecom Equipment Industry." 2006. (Presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Honolulu, HI, August 2005.)
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      Complexity, Networks and Knowledge Flow

      By: Lee Fleming, O. Sorenson and J. Rivkin
      Keywords: Networks; knowledge
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      Fleming, Lee, O. Sorenson, and J. Rivkin. "Complexity, Networks and Knowledge Flow." Research Policy 35, no. 7 (September 2006): 994–1017.
      • 2005
      • Working Paper

      Silent Saboteurs: How Implicit Theories of Voice Inhibit the Upward Flow of Knowledge in Organizations

      By: James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson
      This article examines, in a series of three studies, how people working in organizational hierarchies wrestle with the challenge of upward voice. We first undertook in-depth exploratory research in a knowledge-intensive multinational corporation in which employee input...  View Details
      Keywords: Prejudice And Bias; Working Conditions; knowledge Management; Attitudes; Organizational Culture
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      Detert, James R., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Silent Saboteurs: How Implicit Theories of Voice Inhibit the Upward Flow of Knowledge in Organizations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 06-024, December 2005. (Revised October 2006, December 2008.)
      • 2003
      • Conference Paper

      Follow the Money: What Really Drives Technology Innovation in Construction

      By: John D. Macomber
      Technology enthusiasts, academics, and software companies remain concerned about the slow pace of innovation in the construction industry. Tools are widely available that seem to provide eminently sensible and clearly apparent improvement to the process of design and...  View Details
      Keywords: Buildings And Facilities; Technological Innovation; Construction; Design; Performance Improvement; Motivation And Incentives; knowledge Management; Adoption; Business Model; Capital Structure; Supply Chain
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      Macomber, John D. "Follow the Money: What Really Drives Technology Innovation in Construction." Paper presented at the American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003.
      • 2001
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      Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry

      By: Rebecca Henderson and Ian Cockburn
      U.S. taxpayers funded $14.8 billion of health related research last year, four times the amount that was spent in 1970 in real terms. In this paper we evaluate the impact of these huge expenditures on the technological performance of the pharmaceutical industry. While...  View Details
      Keywords: Public Sector; Science-based Business; Research And Development; Sovereign Finance; Pharmaceutical Industry
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      Henderson, Rebecca, and Ian Cockburn. "Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry." In Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 1, edited by Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, 1–34. MIT Press, 2001.
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