SI seminar with Anupama Phene

Distal and Proximal Cues: The role of firm units and inventor networks in organizational knowledge development. Seminar Speaker: Anupama Phene, Professor of International Business (George Washington University)

Thursday, June 6, 2019 - 13:00 to 14:15

Inventors’ knowledge is recombined in a firm based on cues of its richness. The effect of proximal cues of knowledge, provided by an inventor’s position in the intra-firm collaboration network on the use of inventor’s knowledge in the firm is established in the literature. We theorize about overlooked cues of knowledge, provided by the inventor’s unit, and their effect on the use of inventor’s knowledge within a multi-unit firm. We consider a unit’s knowledge heterogeneity and its dissimilarity with the firm as distal cues of the inventor’s knowledge. We posit that distal cues have inverted-U effects on the use of inventor’s knowledge in the firm. Further, the inventor’s proximal cue in the form of structural hole spanning in the intra-firm network moderates this relationship.

The seminar takes place in Kilen 2.53. All are welcome. 

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