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Learning from What Others Have Learned from You: The Effects of Knowledge Spillovers on Originating Firms

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: Although research suggests knowledge spillovers often benefit imitators at the expense of originators, we investigate how originating firms may also benefit from their own spillovers. When an originating firm's spillovers are recombined with complementary knowledge by recipient firms, a spillover knowledge pool is formed, containing opportunities for the originator to learn vicariously from recipients. In a longitudinal study of 87 telecommunications manufacturers, we found that a firm's rate of innovation and the extent to which these innovations integrate knowledge from the spillover knowledge pool is greater when this pool is larger in size and similar to the firm's knowledge base.

Source: Academy of Management Journal

DOI: 10.5465/amj.2010.49389018

Authors: Hongyan Yang, Corey Phelps, H. Kevin Steensma

Institutions: Hong Kong Polytechnic University, McGill University, HEC Paris, University of Washington

Language: English

Topic: Innovation and Knowledge Management

Subfield: Strategy and Management

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2109543882

FWCI: 33.43

Cites: 70

Cited by: 262

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