دانلود رایگان مقاله شبکه اجتماعی روابط فناوری و قابلیت gatekeeper: پیامدهای مدیریت عملکرد پروژه های تحقیق و توسعه

abstract

R&D project teams concerned with efficiency under limited resources must cohesively coordinate cooperation, interactions, and the exchange of ideas to sustain innovation. This research investigated the management of social networks, technology ties, and gatekeeper functionality from a networking perspective and examined their contribution to R&D performance, which was evaluated using data envelopment analysis. This study verified the relationships by using data from the Taiwan National Telecommunication Program, which coordinates more than 100 R&D teams in pursuing next-generation broadband technologies. The results regarding these relationships varied. The density of social networking and the outward- and novel-oriented gatekeeper functionality of a project team was found to significantly promote its R&D performance, whereas the density of technology ties exhibits no significance. Accordingly, this paper presents strategic implications for the management of projects, team interorganizational linkages, and governmental subsidy policies, and discusses the networking activities of R&D teams at the project level.

6. Conclusion

The challenges addressed in this paper are especially crucial for governments, which must allocate their limited national resources carefully to enhance their R&D efficiency, emphasizing implementation efficiency over technological novelty. Some predictors of the R&D project performance have been developed on the project structure and the communication mechanism (Hung and Chou, 2013; Hung et al., 2013; Hung and Shiu, 2014; Katz and Allen, 1985; Jiménez-Sáez et al., 2011). However, this study focused on the informal R&D team’s relational structure and investigated from the perspective of social networks, associated technological ties, and gatekeeper functionality, thereby verifying the predictability of each factor on R&D performance. Consequently, the empirical test from the Taiwan NTP data shows that a dense social network and the well-performed gatekeeper functionality of an R&D team enhance performance, even though dense technology ties are unable to support high R&D performance. The research results yield implications for project managers as well as the governmental policy of research sponsorship and strategic R&D partnership at the project level.