Latecomer firms and the emergence and development of knowledge networks: The case of Petrobras in Brazil
By Eva Dantas, Martin Bell. 2009
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This paper addresses the emergence and development of firm-centred knowledge networks within learning and innovation systems in late-industrialising countries. A key contribution of the paper is conceptual and methodological: the development of an original typology of knowledge network properties to trace out changes in the form of networks as they evolve over time. A second contribution consists in providing an example of the application of the typology by examining the emergence and development of a firm-centred knowledge network in the case of Petrobras, the Brazilian oil company over more than 30 years between the late 1960s and the early 2000s. This demonstrates that the properties of Petrobras' knowledge networks continuously evolved through a succession of stages towards (i) increasing intentionality in the management decision-making underlying network development, (ii) growing complexity and diversity in selected cognitive characteristics, and (iii) greater complementarity in the division of innovative labour between Petrobras and its network partners. These original results from applying the typology, in conjunction with retrospective historical methods, illustrate only one aspect of its potential value in the analysis of knowledge networks in late-industrialising economies: tracking out organisational evolution over long periods of time. Others include the comparative examination of network differences across different circumstances and the analysis of relationships between changes/differences in network properties and other characteristics of learning/innovation systems and their contexts.
Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management
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- Martin Bell
- Bruno Silvestre
- Paulo N. Figueiredo *
- Jeremy Hall
- Stelvia Matos
- Ron A. Boschma
- Rajneesh Narula
- Roberta Rabellotti
Citations in the corpus
- Understanding why firms should invest in sustainable supply chains: a complexity approach (2012, background): “…Petrobras as one of four energy industry leaders and the only one from an emerging economy.5 Fortune Magazine’s ranking of the world’s ‘100 most accountable’ firms placed Petrobras at 41.6 Petrobras is clearly a channel leader and focal company (Silvestre and Dalcol 2007, Dantas and Bell 2009).”
- Innovation capability building and learning mechanisms in latecomer firms: recent empirical contributions and implications for research (2012, background): “the firm’s personnel by universities – though these were located throughout the world and not only in Brazil (Dantas and Bell 2009).”