Vanhaverbeke, Wim; Gilsing, Victor; Beerkens, Bonnie; … - In: Journal of Management Studies 46 (2009) 2, pp. 215-244
This paper studies the effect of a focal firm, and its partners' local alliance actions, on the creation of technological innovations by the former. More specifically, we study how two types of redundancy in a focal firm's ego network affect its ability to create new technologies in its...