Knowledge recombination for emerging technological innovations: The case of green shipping

Abstract

The paper explores knowledge recombination by analysing how knowledge networks in established technological fields influenced the formation of the emerging field of green shipping in the period 2007-2018. The authors build hypotheses to investigate whether important mechanisms for the evolution of single technology networks, embeddedness, proximity, and status apply across technological fields. By employing dynamic social network analysis models, they found that actors transferred knowledge across technological fields through (re)combination mechanisms, which affected the emergence of the new technological field, but in different ways. While embeddedness played an important role, status and geographical proximity were less important.

Examining Cognitive and Social Proximities’ Influence on Cluster Firms’ Green Technological Innovation

“…Our findings expand the understanding of social proximity as a key driver of GTI (Li, Zhang et al, 2021;Tsouri et al, 2022). Social proximity's positive impact on CPI and ETI was more robust than that on GPI.…”

“…Our results are specific to GTI but underscore the positive impact of social proximity, cognitive proximity, and technological distance in innovation. while prior studies have examined the effects of proximity on firm-level innovation performance, these studies’ results have been inconsistent, with some studies reporting positive effects (Li, Zhang et al, 2021; Liu et al, 2021; Martínez Ardila et al, 2020; Tsouri et al, 2022) and others reporting negative effects (Ardito et al, 2018; Broekel & Boschma, 2012; Cassi & Plunket, 2014). Innovation heterogeneity may lead to different research results, such as differences in innovation types (e.g., GTI).…”

The diffusion of recruit knowledge and core technological change in organizations

“…Our event history analysis contributes to sociological work on KM, organizational learning, innovation and strategy by first showing how hires with considerable prior research and development (R&D) experience may indeed effect core technological change in organizations, in particular when they have new-to-the-organization distant knowledge. Second, while prior literature argues that a hires' distant knowledge provides access to new knowledge and has the potential to enable the recombination of ideas (Xiao et al, 2022;Tsouri et al, 2022) and to technological repositioning and change (Tzabbar, 2009;Jain, 2016), we show that a hires' distant knowledge in fact results in communication problems that hinder the diffusion of their ideas to other organizational members, thus hindering change. Third, we contribute to this research stream by theorizing and showing that a hires' R&D experience is complementary to her or his distant knowledge, and when a hire has both she or he may socialize incumbent members and facilitate core technological change.…”

“…Mobility literature, along with the knowledge-based view of the firm, has for more than three decades argued that an organizations’ ability to recombine its technological knowledge and develop new capabilities is essential for its ongoing competitiveness (Barney, 1991; Kogut and Zander, 1992). Much research has focused on how organizations can facilitate knowledge recombination (Xiao et al , 2022; Gruber et al , 2013; Tsouri et al , 2022) and the creation of new capabilities, including the assimilation and use of external knowledge (Ugur et al , 2020; Jain, 2020). Recruitment of R&D personnel and executives is seen as one mechanism by which organizations may access and assimilate external knowledge and evolve their capabilities (Asiaei et al , 2021; Jain, 2016).…”

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