Decomposability in Knowledge Structures and Its Impact on the Usefulness of Inventions and Knowledge-base Malleability

By Sai Yayavaram, Gautam Ahuja. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

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Structural Microfoundations of Innovation (2014, unknown): “Evidence suggests that the number of citations received by a patent is a significant predictor of its market value (Hall, Jaffe, & Trajtenberg, 2005) and has been used to measure the usefulness of innovations (Yayavaram & Ahuja, 2008).”
Substitutability and complementarity of technological knowledge and the inventive performance of semiconductor companies (2014, methodology): “Selecting a combination depends on he perceived characteristics of the knowledge elements and their nterrelationships (Galunic and Rodan, 1998; Marengo et al., 2000; leming, 2001; Yayavaram and Ahuja, 2008).”
Product Innovation and Educational Diversity in Top and Middle Management Teams (2020, background): “Greater informational variety allows teams to create solutions that are more valuable by combining distant, yet complementary, information sources (Fleming 2001, Yayavaram and Ahuja 2008, Tavassoli and Carbonara 2014, Dahlin et al. 2005, Bower and Hilgard 1981).”
Keep searching and you’ll find: what do we know about variety creation through firms’ search activities for innovation? (2012, background): “Why organizations often get it wrong Although there are several ways for firms to conduct variety-generating search for innovation, many firms apply dysfunctional search strategies, implying that firms search too much or too little, or conduct too much of one type of search at the expense of other t”
1 Moving Beyond Schumpeter: Management Research on the Determinants of Technological Innovation (2008, background): “In a paper that focuses attention on the knowledge-base aspect of search processes, Yayavaram and Ahuja (2008) argue that the recombinant process argumentation suffers from a basic limitation.”
The Second Face of Appropriability: Generative Appropriability and Its Determinants (2013, background): “Decentralized structures—modular or fully decomposable in Simonian terms (Sanchez & Mahoney, 1996)—permit each subgroup to specialize in a limited domain of knowledge and become highly sensitive and responsive to needs in that domain (Nickerson & Zenger, 2002; Yayavaram & Ahuja, 2008).”
A Multidimensional Conceptualization of Environmental Velocity (2010, background): “…to affect velocity coupling is to alter the degree of modularity in products (Baldwin & Clark, 1997; Sanchez & Mahoney, 1996), technologies (Yayavaram & Ahuja, 2008), organizations (Meyer & Rowan, 1977; Weick, 1976, 1982), or interorganizational networks and supply chains (Afuah, 2001;…”
Organizational Structure, Information Processing, and Decision-Making: A Retrospective and Road Map for Research (2020, background): “…that examine (i) the effect of decomposability on organizational structure (Zhou, 2013) and product architecture (e.g., Baldwin & Clark, 2000; Yayavaram & Ahuja 2008); (ii) the effects of formal structure on the informal organization (Clement & Puranam, 2017; Kleinbaum, Stuart, & Tushman,…”
Knowledge, Networks, and Knowledge Networks (2011, background): “Individuals and collectives are repositories of knowledge, and the structure of knowledge in these repositories greatly influences the extent to which actors can retrieve information and absorb new information (Austin, 2003; Bates & Elman, 2008; Yayavaram & Ahuja, 2008).”