دانلود رایگان مقاله پویایی حقوق مالکیت معنوی برای اعتماد، اشتراک دانش و نوآوری

ABSTRACT

The research question is: How can intellectual property rights (IPRs) influence trust, attitudes, commitment, knowledge sharing, and innovation in inter-organisational project teams? The four strategically selected team cases include eight global knowledge-intensive industrial oil service companies in Norway. The methodology included 24 in-depth interviews done in 2016. The study finds that formal intellectual property rights are key to building up and keeping trust in the team and also for building up the right attitudes within the team. The IPRs increased the innovativeness in the team and incremental innovations. The IPRs fostered a unique knowledge sharing in these four teams enabling them to work towards innovative solutions and delivering in time. Formal IPŔs foster informal trust and expertise sharing and by that also the inter- organizational cooperation. The confidence and knowledge sharing strengthen the possibility for future collaboration and innovations both on an individual level and on a corporate level. The theoretical implication of our findings is that IPRs increase the trust, commitment, and attitudes within the team providing knowledge sharing and innovativeness for improved solutions and results. IPRs are positive for collaboration, and they are complementary governance mechanisms. The practical implication is that IPRs must be defined and accepted before the corporations start up the interorganizational teamwork. The contract typology should in the start up be sensitizing giving directions and security and in the end definitive.

9. Conclusion

The findings from the study contrasts many other studies and professional assumptions:

1. IPRs are found to be critical for building up trust in the team

2. IPRs are considered to be vital for building up prevailing attitudes in the team

3. IPRs are found to be imperative for knowledge sharing in the team

4. IPRs are considered to be essential for innovative teamwork

5. IPRs are considered to be important for incremental innovations

6. IPRs are not found to be important for radical product innovations

7. IPRs are not found to have impact upon innovative product design

8. IPRs are not found to have impact on the worker’s commitment towards the project goal

9. IPRs are not considered to contribute to the product design process

The study concludes that formal intellectual property rights are essential to building up and keeping trust in the team and also for building up the good attitudes within the team. Building up the good attitudes gave a unique knowledge sharing in these four teams enabling them to work towards innovative solutions and delivering in time. Formal IPŔs foster informal trust and knowledge sharing and by that also the inter-organizational cooperation. These team experiences strengthen the possibility for future collaboration and innovations both on an individual level and on a corporate level. The theoretical implication of our findings will be that high-performing teams require IPRs to be getting high performance in inter-organizational knowledge, intensive teams. The link between IPRs and strong team performance is a theoretical implication that has not been proposed before as a part of high-performance teams in knowledge intensive inter-organizational work.

The practical implication is that the intellectual property rights must be clearly defined before the corporations start the inter-organizational teamwork in knowledge intensive processes.