دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی شیوه های مشارکتی برای ایجاد دانش در پروژه های مشترک تحقیق و توسعه - الزویر 2018

ABSTRACT

Purpose: We aim to elucidate how the dynamics of collaborative practices in research and development (R&D) projects occur and to reveal the main practices adopted in developing an ambidextrous project. The dynamics of R&D practices in knowledge creation arise from complementary practices of exploration and exploitation undertaken over the lifespan of an interorganizational project that trigger an ambidextrous process of innovation. Design/methodology/approach: This study involves interpretative guidance. We elaborate upon the history of the development of a collaborative R&D project in an intensive knowledge industry, the semiconductor industry, and use narrative as the methodological framework in a single case study with a processual approach. We conducted 65 interviews that were supported by secondary inventories of data that consisted of 167 files. Findings: The type of collaborative practice adopted in a joint R&D project varies based on the stocks of knowledge required to make the concept a reality and also as a strategy of knowledge creation adopted in each project phase, ensuring a dynamic synthesis between tacit and explicit knowledge. We propose a three-dimensional model that accounts for the adoption of different practices throughout the life cycle of a collaborative ambidextrous R&D project. Practical implications: We identified 19 collaborative practices of inter-organizational knowledge creation that ensure the dynamics of innovation using complementary exploration and exploitation approaches. Originality/Value: This study makes important contributions to the relational view and the theory of knowledge creation, offering a contribution to understanding the origin of ambidextrous practices in knowledge creation throughout the life cycle of an R&D project.

Final remarks

The discussion of the relational view is born from questions regarding how firms achieve average returns. According to the relational view, this is only possible because of existing idiosyncratic connections between businesses that earn relational rents, i.e., a supernormal profit that is generated in an exchange and that cannot be earned by a single firm – instead it can only be created through alliances with specific partners. One of the hypotheses developed by Dyer and Singh (1998) is that the design of specific collaborative practices in knowledge creation would facilitate exchanges between alliance partners and the creation of new knowledge. However, as already shown in the theoretical framework, no solid contributions explain the dynamics of these collaborative practices that lead to supernormal profits. This lack of explanation of the origin of collaborative practices meets with notes by Lounsbury and Crumley (2007) and Labatut et al. (2014), who emphasized at different times that one of the most intriguing aspects of recent developments in organizational studies consists of the concentrated efforts to expand the understanding of “how” and “why” organizations change and “what” the origin is of these newly adopted practices. Thus, we seek to identify the main factors that guarantee the dynamics of collaborative practices in an ambidextrous innovation process during the lifespan of the FD-SOI 28 nm collaborative project. Three main types of collaborative practices were found: assessment (1 st phase), fractalization (2nd phase) and crystallization (3rd phase). In the first phase, collaborative assessment practices of knowledge emerge to interpret reality as it occurs and the different forms in which it appears.