Inter-firm collaboration

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Inter-firm collaboration, by linking knowledge domains across organizations and across institutional environments, enables firms to enhance their creativity and to grow organically. Resource-based view and knowledge-based view perspectives cite inter-firm collaboration... 

One of the primary incentives for inter-firm collaboration is organizational learning. Powell Koput (1996) succinctly indicate the motive for these linkages Research breakthroughs demand a range of intellectual and scientific skills that far exceed the capabilities of any one organization. As knowledge is brokered across institutional frames, opportunities for creativity and recombinant innovation are dramatically enabled ... 

Figure 13.1. Inter-firm collaboration as a mechanism of organizational growth.

Response to institutional pressures inter-firm collaboration... 

Importantly, the growth of these firms did not sacrifice quality for speed, demonstrating how recombinant innovations - in this case pieced together through inter-firm collaborations - can enable firms to side-step many of the traditional trade-offs between the efficiencies of exploiting existing knowledge and the exploration of new options. 

A number of alternative supply chain structures have emerged, based upon networks and the degree of inter-firm collaboration. A well-known view is that of Sako (1992), who distinguishes a spectrum of possible supply relationships, ranging from ... 

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