Simon Rodan

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the notion of resource recombinations within the firm and examine the antecedents necessary for such innovation to occur, and in particular the nature of knowledge in the firm.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the influence of network structure and content on managerial performance using a sample of 106 middle managers in a European telecommunications company and found that while network structure matters, access to heterogeneous knowledge is of equal importance for overall managerial performance and of greater importance for innovation performance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of network structure and content on managerial performance was investigated in the context of middle managers in a European telecommunications company, and it was found that access to heterogeneous knowledge is of equal importance for overall managerial performance and of greater importance for innovation performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of two structural features in the two networks (structural holes and degree centrality) on researchers' exploratory innovation and found that a researcher with knowledge elements rich in structural holes in the knowledge network tends to explore fewer new knowledge elements from outside the firm, while structural hole in the collaboration network increase exploratory innovations.

TL;DR: Empirically tests a mediated moderation model that distinguishes between the five different theoretical mechanisms: autonomy, competition, information brokering, opportunity recognition and innovativeness, and suggests that of these five theoretical causal motors, innovateativeness plays a key role in linking network structure and network content to performance.