Abstract
Prior research has suggested that collaborating with multiple partners promises better innovation performance. However, multi-partner collaborations also bring additional management challenges stemming from the more complex coordination among multiple, often diverse, partners. Adopting a coordination perspective, this study offers new insights on the optimal temporal coordination in multi-partner collaborations. We argue that effective coordination in multi-partner collaboration is likely to require episodes of sequential collaboration with partners (sequentiality) as well as periods of simultaneous involvement of all partners (simultaneity). The optimal balance between the two is project-specific and depends on the complexity of the technology developed and managerial resource constraints. We find support for these conjectures in analyses of over 1,000 R&D projects in a major firm in the electronics industry."
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2020: Understanding the Inclusive Organization, AoM 2020 |
Publisher | Academy of Management |
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Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2020 |
Event | 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2020: Understanding the Inclusive Organization - Online, United States Duration: 7 Aug 2020 → 11 Aug 2020 Conference number: 80 |
Publication series
Series | Academy of Management Proceedings |
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Number | 1 |
Volume | 2020 |
ISSN | 2151-6561 |
Conference
Conference | 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2020 |
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Abbreviated title | AoM 2020 |
Country/Territory | United States |
Period | 7/08/20 → 11/08/20 |