• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Knowledge Acquisition in Production Networks: Effective Strategies for System Integrators and Component Specialists
  • Contributor: Lin, Shu-Jou; Lin, Hsing-Er; McDonough, Edward F.
  • Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2016
  • Published in: Management and Organization Review, 12 (2016) 4, Seite 659-686
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1017/mor.2016.18
  • ISSN: 1740-8776; 1740-8784
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  • Description: ABSTRACTThis study provides new insight into the effectiveness of different knowledge acquisition strategies for organizations at different positions in a production network. Component specialists and systems integrators require a different knowledge repertoire in terms of knowledge depth and knowledge breadth. We show that a greater reliance on inter-organizational partnering than on intra-organizational acquiring is effective in the acquisition of knowledge breadth rather than knowledge depth. And the positive effect of a greater reliance on inter-organizational partnering on knowledge breadth is particularly strong for system integrators.