Arbeitspapier
Costs and benefits of inter-departmental innovation collaboration
Inter-departmental innovation collaboration facilitates innovation performance. At the same time, it has been identified as source of increased coordination costs. Using organizational information processing theory, this paper builds and tests hypotheses on the costs and benefits of innovation-related collaboration within firms. Based on a sample of 433 German manufacturing firms we show inter-departmental innovation collaboration to increase process innovation performance, but also to produce costs in terms of project delay and project termination. These costs, however, do not affect innovation performance at the firm level. This finding suggests firms to be well able to balance the costs and benefits of interdepartmental collaboration across their innovation project portfolio. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 11-003
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
Personnel Economics: Labor Management
Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
- Subject
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Inter-departmental innovation collaboration
innovation performance
project delay
project termination
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Cuijpers, Maarten
Guenter, Hannes
Hussinger, Katrin
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
- (where)
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Mannheim
- (when)
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2011
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-31140
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Cuijpers, Maarten
- Guenter, Hannes
- Hussinger, Katrin
- Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
Time of origin
- 2011
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