Costs and Benefits of Inter-Departmental Innovation Collaboration
By M. Cuijpers, Hannes Guenter, K. Hussinger. 2011
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Inter-departmental innovation collaboration facilitates innovation performance. At the same time, it has been identified as source of increased coordination costs. Using organizational information processing theory, this paper builds and tests hypotheses on the costs and benefits of innovation-related collaboration within firms. Based on a sample of 433 German manufacturing firms we show inter-departmental innovation collaboration to increase process innovation performance, but also to produce costs in terms of project delay and project termination. These costs, however, do not affect innovation performance at the firm level. This finding suggests firms to be well able to balance the costs and benefits of interdepartmental collaboration across their innovation project portfolio. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.
Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management
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In Management Science and Operations Research
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In Strategy and Management
Citations in the corpus
- Do Important Inventions Benefit from Knowledge Originating in Other Technological Domains (2012, background): “Coordination costs are higher due to delays and higher likelihood of project termination (Cuijpers et al., 2011).”
- When and with whom to cooperate? Investigating effects of cooperation stage and type on innovation capabilities and success (2017, background): “Several studies have examined how cross-functional and thus internal cooperation throughout the different stages of the innovation process influences project, innovation and/or firm performance (Cuijpers et al., 2011; Leenders and Wierenga, 2008).”