Technology Brokering and Innovation in a Product Development Firm

1997/12/01 by Andrew Hargadon, Robert I. Sutton · 2,905 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Engineering · #Business #Business Strategy and Innovation #Computer science #Engineering #Industrial organization #Innovation and Knowledge Management #Knowledge management #Manufacturing engineering #Marketing #New product development #Process management #Product (mathematics) #Product innovation #Technology development #University-Industry-Government Innovation Models

paper · doi:10.2307/2393655

published in Administrative Science Quarterly 42(4), 716 (SAGE Publishing)

openalex publication_date 1997/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Cited by

• Theory Building From Cases: Opportunities And Challenges
• Structural Holes and Good Ideas
• Tradition and Innovation in Scientists’ Research Strategies
• Models of Innovation: Startups and Mature Corporations
• Getting the most out of living abroad: Biculturalism and integrative complexity as key drivers of creative and professional success.
• A Recipe for Creativity: An Ingredient-Embedding Approach
• The impact of network embeddedness on research output
• “All for One and One for All?” - Knowledge broker roles in managing tensions of internal coopetition: The Ubisoft case
• How and when community dynamics facilitate technology transfer: the role of breakthrough innovation and structural holes in the knowledge network
• The paradox of openness: Appropriability, external search and collaboration
• The Mutual Shaping of Technology and Society in Videotex Newspapers: Beyond the Diffusion and Social Shaping Perspectives
• Human Resources, Human Resource Management, and the Competitive Advantage of Firms: Toward a More Comprehensive Model of Causal Linkages
• Robust Systems of Cooperation in the Presence of Rankings: How Displaying Prosocial Contributions Can Offset the Disruptive Effects of Performance Rankings
• Where Do Creative Interactions Come From? The Role of Tie Content and Social Networks
• Structural Recombination and Innovation: Unlocking Intraorganizational Knowledge Synergy Through Structural Change
• Feature-Based Structures of Opportunity: Genre Innovation in the American Popular Music Industry, 1958 to 2016
• An integrative literature review of prototyping in management research: Definition and research agenda
• Temporary colocation and collaborative discovery: Who confers at conferences
• The double‐edged sword of recombination in breakthrough innovation
• Recognition of Emerging Technology Trends. Class-selective study of citations in the U.S. Patent Citation Network
• A man on the inside: Unlocking communities as complementary assets
• Interunit interaction contexts, interpersonal social capital, and the differing levels of knowledge sharing
• Understanding commercialization of technological innovation: taking stock and moving forward
• Expertise Integration and Creativity in Information Systems Development
• Exploring open search strategies and perceived innovation performance from the perspective of inter‐organizational knowledge flows
• Knowledge and Networks
• Employee creativity in a digital era: the mediating role of social media
• Polyphonic Imagination: Understanding Idea Generation in Multidisciplinary Groups as a Multivoiced Stimulation of Fantasy
• External representations in strategic decision‐making: Understanding strategy's reliance on visuals
• A “crescendo” model: designing food experiences for psychological well-being
• Innovation intermediaries and performance-based incentives: A case study of regional innovation poles
• Using technology broadcasting to explore market applications: The moderating role of a firm's domain‐specific and general knowledge
• Do research institutes benefit from their network positions in research collaboration networks with industries or/and universities?
• A Knowledge Recombination Perspective of Innovation: Review and New Research Directions
• Design thinking in responding to disruptive innovation: A case study
• Prediction of emerging technologies based on analysis of the US patent citation network
• Exaptation as source of creativity, innovation, and diversity: introduction to the Special Section
• The Extended Map methodology: Technology roadmapping for SMES clusters
• Tackling Grand Challenges Pragmatically: Robust Action Revisited
• Bridges, brokers and boundary spanners in collaborative networks: a systematic review. [europepmc]
• A congruence perspective on how human and social capital affect learning capability and innovation. [europepmc]
• How Authenticity and Tradition Shift into Sustainability and Innovation: Evidence from Italian Agritourism. [europepmc]
• Collaborative Patterns, Productivity, and Research Impact in the Careers of Star Researchers in a Japanese Semiconductor Company. [europepmc]
• University-industry collaboration and firm innovation: an empirical study of the biopharmaceutical industry. [europepmc]
• Effects of Human-Social Capital Congruence and Environmental Dynamism on Dynamic of Encouragement and Organizational Innovation in New Ventures. [europepmc]
• How Does Organizational Unlearning Influence Product Innovation Performance? Moderating Effect of Environmental Dynamism. [europepmc]
• Mapping continuous learning using social network research: a social network study of Australian Genomics as a Learning Health System. [europepmc]
• Entrepreneurial networks, geographical proximity, and their relationship to firm growth: a study of 241 small high-tech firms. [europepmc]
• Should an R&D manager refer to distant technical fields? The effectiveness of new combinations with knowledge from different technical fields through the quantitative analysis of patent data related to NetZero. [europepmc]
• Transfer of Knowledge on Pneumoconiosis Care Among Rural-Based Members of a Digital Community of Practice: Cross-Sectional Study. [europepmc]
• Who Continues to a Doctoral Degree? Employment Choices and Influencing Factors Among Engineering Master's Students. [europepmc]
• Beyond the bamboo ceiling: How ethnic collaborative networks facilitate Chinese inventors' knowledge remittances. [europepmc]
• Structural characteristics and evolutionary trajectories of knowledge recombination in the field of AI-driven drug discovery. [europepmc]