Resource recombinations in the firm: knowledge structures and the potential for schumpeterian innovation

Building on the resource-based view of the firm, this paper explores the notion of 'resource recombinations' within the firm. We suggest such recombinations can occur when competencies within the firm (which are interpreted as organized clusters of firm resources) either combine to synthes...

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Published in:Strategic management journal 1998-12, Vol.19 (12), p.1193-1201
Main Authors: Galunic, D. Charles, Rodan, Simon
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied sciences
Business structures
Capital resources
Cognitive models
Competitive advantage
Corporate strategies
Creativity
Disruptive innovation
Economic resources
Entrepreneurs
Exact sciences and technology
Firm modelling
innovation
Innovations
Knowledge
Natural resources
Operational research and scientific management
Operational research. Management science
organizational knowledge
Organizational theory
Research Notes and Communications
resource-based view
Strategic management
Tacit knowledge
Technological innovation
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Summary:Building on the resource-based view of the firm, this paper explores the notion of 'resource recombinations' within the firm. We suggest such recombinations can occur when competencies within the firm (which are interpreted as organized clusters of firm resources) either combine to synthesize novel competencies (synthesis-based recombinations) or experience a reconfiguration or relinking with other competencies (reconfiguration-based recombinations). Central to this paper is an examination of the antecedents necessary for such innovation to occur, and in particular the nature of knowledge in the firm. We argue that several characteristics of knowledge (tacitness, context specificity, dispersion) and its social organization (the way competencies come to be formed and institutionalized) will have important consequences on the likelihoods of resource recombinations. Our paper develops a model of resource recombination likelihoods and propositions.
ISSN:0143-2095
1097-0266
DOI:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0266(1998120)19:12<1193::AID-SMJ5>3.0.CO;2-F