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Innovation team networks: the centrality of innovativeness and efficiency

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  • Roger Th.A.J. Leenders
  • Jan Kratzer
  • Jo M.L. Van Engelen

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In this article we employ Social Network Analysis (SNA) to study the performance of new product teams that are part of an international innovation network. We are interested in explaining why some teams are exceedingly innovative but not efficient, whereas others excel in efficiency but stumble on innovativeness. We compare two teams that are very similar in task, background and skill. Using SNA we find that both teams are equally present on the shortest communication paths, but the innovative team has a much stronger presence on alternative communication paths as well. This provides it with many different sources and types of knowledge. The highly efficient team is strongly connected to well-connected knowledgeable others. It can thus efficiently tap relevant information. The article shows that SNA techniques are useful in uncovering network positions and in understanding the differential levels of performance of otherwise comparable teams.

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  • Roger Th.A.J. Leenders & Jan Kratzer & Jo M.L. Van Engelen, 2007. "Innovation team networks: the centrality of innovativeness and efficiency," International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 4(4), pages 459-478.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijnvor:v:4:y:2007:i:4:p:459-478
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    1. Lisbeth Brøde Jepsen, 2013. "Information Sharing in a New Product Development Project - The Role of Core Actors," Working Papers 115/13, University of Southern Denmark, Department of Sociology, Environmental and Business Economics.
    2. Simms, Christopher & Frishammar, Johan & Ford, Nicholas, 2021. "The front end in radical process innovation projects: Sources of knowledge problems and coping mechanisms," Technovation, Elsevier, vol. 105(C).
    3. Zahid Yousaf & Daniela Mihai & Umair Tanveer & Mădălina Brutu & Smaranda Toma & Sheikh Muhammad Zahid, 2022. "Organizational Innovativeness in the Circular Economy: The Interplay of Innovation Networks, Frugal Innovation, and Organizational Readiness," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(11), pages 1-13, May.
    4. Wilfred Dolfsma & Loet Leydesdorff, 2010. "The citation field of evolutionary economics," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 20(5), pages 645-664, October.

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