Knowledge integration using product R&D outsourcing in biotechnology

Knowledge Integration in Product Development Projects

The Influence Of Outsourcing Models On Vendor Knowledge Integration

In this paper, we attempt to address the role of outsourcing models (Global Delivery, Global Shared-services, and Build-Operate-Transfer models)―on vendor knowledge integration, i.e., the understanding of the project requirements and client needs by the vendor. Specifically, the paper examines the role of team identification, requirements ambiguity, and infrastructure diversity in vendor knowle...

Vertical Integration Versus Outsourcing: A Knowledge-Based Reconciliation

In vertical integration literature, controversy remains over how organizational cost changes after vertical integration and how technological uncertainty influences vertical integration decisions. To reach a reconciliation, I draw on knowledge-based view of the firm (Grant, 1996, 1998; Spender, 1996, 1998), and propose a contingency model that examines moderating effects of knowledge absorptive...

Knowledge integration with customers in collaborative product development

Driven by rapid technological developments, greater customer expectations, and increased product complexity, product development processes increasingly rely on the integration of dispersed specialist knowledge. Consequently, many industrial firms are changing the way they approach product development. Product development increasingly relies on knowledge integration across firm boundaries. Custo...

Knowledge integration with customers in collaborative product development projects

Purpose This paper addresses the need for managerial and organizational approaches to knowledge integration with customers in collaborative product development projects. The purpose is to identify the roles of customers in terms of the customer's knowledge contribution and timing of customer collaboration in the product development process. Design/methodology/approach This study is based on a m...