Pragmatic Collaborations: Advancing Knowledge While Controlling Opportunism

By Susan Helper, John Paul MacDuffie, C. Sabel. 2000

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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The hidden costs of outsourcing: evidence from patent data (2010, background): “As an example, internal and external suppliers may share knowledge of improvements in internal (A) and external (B) production processes and technologies, thus enabling each other to enhance their efficacy and effectiveness (Dyer and Hatch, 2006; Dyer and Singh, 1998; Gulati, Lawrence, and Puranam, ”
The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions (2016, background): “The products examined in these studies included autos (e.g., Clark, 1989; Helper et al., 2000; Takeishi, 2001; Mikkola, 2003; Sako, 2004), aircraft and related products (e.”
The Employment Consequences of Robots: Firm-Level Evidence (2020, positive): “By contrast, employees doing more cognitively complex work are often experts themselves in dealing with problems outside of routine operations, and can resolve production problems better than their managers (Helper et al. 2000, Kenny and Florida 1993).”
The Legal Nature of the Firm and the Myth of the Firm-Market Hybrid (2002, background): “Some claim that such developments undermine the idea of the firm as a non-market entity; others claim that ownership-based and legal definitions of the boundaries of firms are increasingly irrelevant for understanding the organisation of economic activities (Zucker, 1991; Helper et al., 2000).”
The Diversity-Bandwidth Trade-off1 (2011, neutral): “…and to participate in cooperative activities such as joint problem solving, so they are more likely to discover topics of mutual interest in their discussions and to subsequently continue to both generate and exchange information on those additional dimensions (Uzzi 1997; Helper et al. 2000).”
Research collaboration and R&D outsourcing: Different R&D personnel requirements in SMEs (2013, background): “…the development of internal capabilities the firm needs organisational integration: a set of relations that creates incentives for employees who participate in hierarchical and functional divisions of labour to apply their skills and efforts to the innovation process (Helper et al., 2000).”
Perspectives on the productivity dilemma (2009, background): “This belief, fundamental to kaizen, resonates strongly with the writings of Pragmatist philosophers such as John Dewey (Helper et al., 2000).”
Modularity in technology and organization (2002, background): “Rather, the response to problems is. . . to try and solve them together (Helper et al., 2000, p. 473).”