nep-knm New Economics Papers
on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy
Issue of 2010‒08‒28
two papers chosen by
Laura Stefanescu
European Research Centre of Managerial Studies in Business Administration
  1. Virtual Team Collaboration: A Review of Literature and Perspectives By Myriam Karoui; Ali Gürkan; Aurélie Dudezert
  2. What drives patent performance of German biotech firms? The impact of R&D subsidies, knowledge networks and their location By Dirk Fornahl; Tom Broekel; Ron Boschma
  1. By: Myriam Karoui (LGI - Laboratoire Génie Industriel - Ecole Centrale Paris); Ali Gürkan (LGI - Laboratoire Génie Industriel - Ecole Centrale Paris); Aurélie Dudezert (LGI - Laboratoire Génie Industriel - Ecole Centrale Paris)
    Abstract: Along with the widespread use of information technologies (IT) and the increasing geographical span of tasks held by various organizations, Virtual Teams (VTs) rose as an alternative organizational form which has the potential to deeply change the workplace. This article provides a review of previously published work on collaboration in VTs. The review is organized around two perspectives adopted by scholars, namely technological and managerial. This analysis underlines two major constructs that leads to an efficient VT collaboration, i.e. the context in which the collaboration is held and the collaboration style. While the former is illustrated by knowledge and team characteristics, the latter is identified by technological media and leadership. Building on this classification, we suggest a model and explore future research directions with a particular attention to the implications for collaboration in organizations.
    Keywords: Collaboration, Virtual Team, Knowledge Sharing, Literature Review
    Date: 2010
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-00509753_v1&r=knm
  2. By: Dirk Fornahl; Tom Broekel; Ron Boschma
    Abstract: This paper aims to explain whether firm-specific features, their engagement in collaboration networks and their location influence patent activity of biotech firms in Germany in the period 1997-2004. First, we demonstrate that non-collaborative R&D subsidies do not increase patent intensity of biotech firms. Second, the number of knowledge links biotech firms is also not influencing their patent performance. However, strong and robust evidence is found that some but not too much cognitive distance between actors involved in R&D collaborations increases patent performance of firms. Third, being located in a biotech cluster does positively impact on patent performance.
    Keywords: relatedness, R&D subsidies, biotechnology, knowledge networks, proximity paradox
    JEL: O33 O38 R58
    Date: 2010–08
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:egu:wpaper:1009&r=knm
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