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The Effect of Knowledge Breadth and Depth on New Product Performance

Defeng Yang, +2 more
- 01 Jul 2017 - 
- Vol. 59, Iss: 4, pp 517-536
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In this article, the authors distinguish two features of a firm's knowledge base - breadth and depth - and elucidate their interplay in determining new product performance, drawing from the knowledge-based...
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This study distinguishes two features of a firm's knowledge base - breadth and depth - and elucidates their interplay in determining new product performance. Papers drawing from the knowledge-based...

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TL;DR: The primary contribution of the paper is in exploring the coordination mechanisms through which firms integrate the specialist knowledge of their members, which has implications for the basis of organizational capability, the principles of organization design, and the determinants of the horizontal and vertical boundaries of the firm.
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