Untangling the boundaries in technology collaborations: The deviation effects of “project autonomy” on innovations through collaborations
Untangling the boundaries in technology collaborations: The deviation effects of “project autonomy” on innovations through collaborations
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10.1109/picmet.2016.7806633
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2016-09
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Naoki Takada
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Naoki Takada
随着组织间合作的增加，许多研究者调查了母公司之间的关系因素（如信任关系）的影响。与此相反，本文分别捕捉管理层（母公司）和运营层（项目）的合作，并调查这两个级别之间的关系的影响。在这种情况下，母公司负责合同和冲突的解决，并负责研发活动的项目。“项目自主权”的概念是指一个项目自行决定研究与发展活动的目的和程序的权力和自由的程度，它表明了这些关系之一。基于专利的分析结果表明了两点。首先，高度的项目自主性通过项目内部的集成促进了技术成果的产生。由于合作项目是由来自不同组织的成员组成的，因此自主决策可能会建立在组织惯例的整合上。第二，较低的项目自主权促进了项目与自有企业的整合，这是通过将技术成果与互补资源联系起来实现商业化所必需的。结合这两点，建议由于项目自主权，这几点不同时完成。技术联盟的高失败率可以从这方面得到解释。
In line with rising number of collaborations among organizations, many researchers investigated the effects of relational factors (e.g. trust relationship) between parent firms. In contrast with this trend, this paper separately captures management-level (parent firms) and operational-level (projects) in collaborations, and investigates the effects of relationships between these two levels. In this setting, parent firms have responsibility for contract and conflict resolution, and project for R&D activities. The concept of “project autonomy”, which means the extent to authority and freedom of a project to make its own decisions about purpose and procedure about R&D activities, is the indication of one of those relationships. The result of analysis using patent-based measure suggests two points. First, high project autonomy promotes the technological outcome through integration inside projects. Because collaborative projects are composed of members from different organizations, autonomous decisions may set on integration of organizational routines. Second, low project autonomy promotes the integration between projects and own firm, which is needed to commercialize through linking technological outcome with complementary resources. Combining with these two points, it is suggested that these points are not accomplished simultaneously due to project autonomy. High failure rate of technology alliance may be explained from this aspect.