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Editor's Choice Not invented here: how institutionalized socialization practices affect the formation of negative attitudes toward external knowledge

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  • Ana Luiza de Araújo Burcharth
  • Andrea Fosfuri

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Management literature highlights several potential benefits of institutionalized socialization practices that attempt to increase cohesiveness among employees. This article posits that such practices might also contribute to a biased perception of internally generated knowledge and therefore to a greater reluctance to adopt external knowledge, enhancing the so-called not-invented-here (NIH) syndrome. Drawing on multi-informant survey data, the authors find that institutionalized socialization practices are associated with the NIH syndrome. This association is, however, muted in highly technologically specialized companies.

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  • Ana Luiza de Araújo Burcharth & Andrea Fosfuri, 2015. "Editor's Choice Not invented here: how institutionalized socialization practices affect the formation of negative attitudes toward external knowledge," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 24(2), pages 281-305.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:indcch:v:24:y:2015:i:2:p:281-305.
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    1. Marita McPhillips & Tatjana Nikitina & Silke Tegtmeier & Michał Wójcik, 2022. "What Skills for Multi-Partner Open Innovation Projects? Open Innovation Competence Profile in a Cluster Ecosystem Context," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(20), pages 1-15, October.
    2. Owen, John R. & Kemp, Deanna, 2017. "Social management capability, human migration and the global mining industry," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 53(C), pages 259-266.
    3. Jose Arias-Pérez & Geovanny Perdomo-Charry & Carlos Castaño-Ríos, 2017. "Not-Invented-Here Syndrome And Innovation Performance: The Confounding Effect Of Innovation Capabilities As Organisational Routines In Service Firms," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 21(01), pages 1-20, January.
    4. Ismail, Muhammad & Bello-Pintado, Alejandro & García-Marco, Teresa & Lazzarotti, Valentina, 2023. "Enhancing open innovation: Managing not invented here syndrome in collaborative projects," Technovation, Elsevier, vol. 128(C).
    5. Hannen, Julian & Antons, David & Piller, Frank & Salge, Torsten Oliver & Coltman, Tim & Devinney, Timothy M., 2019. "Containing the Not-Invented-Here Syndrome in external knowledge absorption and open innovation: The role of indirect countermeasures," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 48(9), pages 1-1.

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