Crossing firm boundaries: How boundary spanners search over time and across organizational contexts

Ann Kristin Zobel, Stephen Comello, Lukas Falcke

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Abstract

The success of open innovation depends on the individuals that stand at the interface of the firm and its external partners. These boundary spanners need to cultivate external search openness by searching broadly and deeply across knowledge sources. This study adopts a temporal perspective to identify search trajectories and systematically analyze the extent to which both external search breadth and depth can be explained by differences within individuals versus differences between individuals. Adopting an attention-based view, we investigate the influence of organizational context and context changes on individual-level search openness trajectories and explore performance implications of such trajectories.

Original languageEnglish
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Publication statusPublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2020: Understanding the Inclusive Organization, AoM 2020 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 7 Aug 202011 Aug 2020

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Conference80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2020: Understanding the Inclusive Organization, AoM 2020
CityVirtual, Online
Period7/08/2011/08/20

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