“…Researchers have shown that efficient technology integration into new products is related to several characteristics: leadership capabilities and strategy (White, ); organizational structures (Lawrence & Lorsch, ; Allen, ; Iansiti, , ; Beaume et al., ); cross‐functional integration (Katz & Allen, ; Clark & Fujimoto, , ); internal communication (Allen, Lee, & Tushman, ; Roussel, Saad, & Erickson, ); decision‐making process (Beaume et al., ) and communication technologies (Allen & Hauptman, ); cooperation with suppliers (Beaume et al, ; Midler, Beaume, & Maniak, ); ‘corpus of structured knowledge’ (Freeman & Soete, ) and technological knowledge (Utterback & Abernathy, ; Von Hippel, ); as well as ‘tacit’ (Kline & Rosenberg, ), ‘sticky’ (Von Hippel, ), and ‘system knowledge’ (Henderson & Clark, ; Christensen, ; Iansiti, , ).…”