Concealing or Revealing? Alternative Paths to Secondary Innovation

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Abstract

While scholars increasingly make a distinction between primary and secondary innovation, there is still little consensus about how secondary innovation is created. One line of research emphasizes knowledge concealing, concluding that a focal firm should strive to recycle knowledge within the company, but limit other actors’ to access firm-specific knowledge. Another line, however, provides the contradictory argument, suggesting that firms enhance secondary innovation by selectively revealing knowledge to outsiders. The aim of this paper is to analyze the conditions under which the seemingly contradictory models apply. We identify two industry-level factors – imitation pace and network effects – and we introduce and elaborate on the firm-level factor generative uncertainty to explain alternative paths to secondary innovation in markets where both imitation pace and network effects are high.
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - 2015
EventStrategic Management Society´s Annual Conference, 2015 - Denver, CO, United States
Duration: 2015 Oct 32015 Oct 6
Conference number: 35

Conference

ConferenceStrategic Management Society´s Annual Conference, 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDenver, CO
Period2015/10/032015/10/06

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Economics and Business

Free keywords

  • value appropriation
  • innovation
  • Strategic management

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