Works
- Make, buy, organize: the interplay between research, external knowledge, and firm structure, Strategic Management Journal 35(3), 317 to 337 (online 2013), 2014
- Organizational change and the dynamics of innovation: formal R&D structure and intrafirm inventor networks, Strategic Management Journal 41(11), 2015 to 2049, 2020
In Organizational Structures
Known for
How the location of R&D authority shapes innovation.
Ideas
Formal R&D structure and inventor networks. With Argyres and Silverman, found that centralizing R&D budget authority connected inventor networks and broadened innovation, and that decentralizing did not reverse the effect. Caveat: A quantitative study of one function, research and development, in diversified firms. Only its abstracts were read, and they do not describe the sample.
Centralized research. With Arora and Belenzon, found that centralized firms invested more in research and patented more per R&D dollar than decentralized firms. Caveat: A large-sample study of American firms only, with centralization inferred from patent assignment rather than organization charts. Read in its abstract only.
In this section, “read” means read by the Organizational Structures series: where a line says a work, or part of one, was not read, the series did not read it.