Baum, Joel; Cowan, Robin; Jonard, Nicolas - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009
that firms' knowledge bases must "fit" in order for joint learning and innovation to be possible, and thus for an alliance … social capital considerations. In this paper we emphasize instead the role of complementary knowledge stocks (broadly defined …) in partner selection, arguing not only that knowledge complementarity should not be overlooked, but that is may be the …