Learning in Dynamic Inter-firm Networks - The Efficacy of Multiple Contacts

John Hagedoorn and Geert Duysters ()

No 9, Research Memorandum from Maastricht University, Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT)

Abstract: This paper examines the relevance of both an efficiency-based network strategy and a learning-based network strategy in the context of inter-firm partnering. The effect of these different forms of network behaviour on company performance is analysed for companies in the international computer industry. Strategies associated with learning through so-called exploratory networks appear to generate a greater impact on technological performance in a dynamic environment than efficiency strategies through exploitative networks.

Keywords: industrial organization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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