The Organization of the Knowledge Base and Inventive Performance

Ludovic Dibiaggio, Maryam Nasiriyar and Lionel Nesta

Chapter 2 in Innovation and IT in an International Context, 2014, pp 47-64 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Beyond diversity and size, this chapter is interested in the impact of the organization of a firm’s knowledge base on its knowledge-creation capacity. The organization as a knowledge base is evaluated by the level of coherence and cohesion depending on the complementary or similar nature of the relations among knowledge elements. Drawing on a statistical analysis of patent data from 1968 to 2002 in the semiconductor industry, the results suggest that coherence makes a positive contribution to inventive capabilities, while cohesion has the opposite impact. However, cohesion is found to be beneficial for knowledge creation when invention relies on the exploration of new combinations.

Keywords: Knowledge Base; Inventive Performance; Knowledge Creation; Negative Binomial Regression; Strategic Management Journal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137336132_3

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