ASSESSING ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE CREATION THEORY IN COLLABORATIVE R&D PROJECTS

William H. A. Johnson ()
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William H. A. Johnson: Bentley College, Management Department, Waltham, MA, USA

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2002, vol. 06, issue 04, 387-418

Abstract: The paper describes research from an intensive study of technological innovation in collaborative research and development (R&D) projects. Specifically, the factors of organizational knowledge creation presented by Nonaka and Takeuchi are extended into the inter-organizational realm by examining survey results of 25 collaborative R&D projects. A case study is also presented from a set of six in-depth cases from the study's population of projects. It was found that specification of goals and scanning of relevant environment factors were significant positive factors in successful technological innovation in this context. In general, the results presented in this paper indicate that inter-organizational collaboration in R&D may require different technical knowledge-creating factors or enabling conditions from the single organization situation. Practical and theoretical implications regarding the use of such managerial devices in successful technical knowledge creation strategies are also discussed.

Keywords: Technical knowledge creation; collaboration; innovation; research and development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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