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Knowledge Management and the Emerging Organizational Models of Distributed Innovation: Towards a Taxonomy

In: The Future of Knowledge Management

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  • Emanuela Prandelli
  • Mohanbir Sawhney
  • Gianmario Verona

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One of the managerial advances that have resulted from the widespread deployment of information and communication technologies (in particular, the Internet) is the ability to greatly enhance a firm’s innovation capacity by leveraging external knowledge resources. While the importance of absorbing external knowledge to support innovation has been understood for some time (for example, Cohen and Levinthal, 1990), firms have historically been limited in their ability to reach beyond their boundaries for innovative ideas for several reasons, including the absence of open standards for communication and the idiosyncrasy of knowledge (Arora and Gambardella, 1994). Consequently, the inter-organizational division of innovative labour has traditionally been limited to a few specialized industries, such as biotechnology (Shan et al., 1994; Powell et al., 1996), pharmaceuticals (Cockburn et al., 2000) and the automotive industry (Langlois and Robertson, 1992; Dyer and Nobeoka, 2000).

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  • Emanuela Prandelli & Mohanbir Sawhney & Gianmario Verona, 2006. "Knowledge Management and the Emerging Organizational Models of Distributed Innovation: Towards a Taxonomy," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Birgit Renzl & Kurt Matzler & Hans Hinterhuber (ed.), The Future of Knowledge Management, chapter 7, pages 137-160, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37189-7_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230371897_8
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