The impact of global and local cohesion on innovation in the pharmaceutical industry

Güler, Işın and Nerkar, Atul (2012) The impact of global and local cohesion on innovation in the pharmaceutical industry. Strategic Management Journal, 33 (5). pp. 535-549. ISSN 0143-2095

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smj.957

Abstract

In this paper, we examine how the configuration of intraorganizational networks, and in particular, cohesion among members of an organization, influences organizations' innovative output. We argue that the cohesion among R&D scientists could be at a local level or a global level, and that local and global cohesion may have different impacts on firms' innovation performance. We test our hypotheses by examining the structure of the R&D collaboration networks within firms that operated in the pharmaceutical industry between 1981 and 1989, and their innovative outcomespatents that led to new product launches. We find that local cohesion has a positive impact on the innovative performance of a firm, and global cohesion has a negative impact.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	cohesion; intraorganizational networks; innovation; pharmaceutical industry; global vs; local
Subjects:	UNSPECIFIED
ID Code:	18966
Deposited By:	Işın Güler
Deposited On:	05 Apr 2012 12:03
Last Modified:	05 Apr 2012 12:03

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