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Essays on dynamic capabilities: the role of intellectual human capital in firm innovation

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dc.contributor.advisor Rothaermel, Frank T.
dc.contributor.author Hess, Andrew M. en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember Lee, J. Jeongsik
dc.contributor.committeeMember Walsh, John
dc.contributor.committeeMember Luis Martins
dc.contributor.committeeMember Higgins, Matt
dc.contributor.department Management en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2008-06-10T20:39:20Z
dc.date.available 2008-06-10T20:39:20Z
dc.date.issued 2008-03-06 en_US
dc.description.abstract Following the dynamic capabilities perspective, I suggest that antecedents to innovation can be found at the individual, firm, and network level. Thus, I challenge two assumptions common in prior research: (1) that significant variance exists at the focal level of analysis, while other levels of analysis are assumed to be homogeneous, and (2) that the focal level of analysis is independent from other levels of analysis. Accordingly, I advance a set of hypotheses to simultaneously assess the direct effects of antecedents at the individual, firm, and network level on innovation output. I then investigate whether a firm s antecedents to innovation lie across different levels. To accomplish this, I propose two competing interaction hypotheses. I juxtapose the hypothesis that the individual, firm, and network-level antecedents to innovation are substitutes versus the proposition that these innovation mechanisms are complements. I test my multi-level theoretical model using an unusually comprehensive and detailed panel dataset that documents the innovation attempts of global pharmaceutical companies within biotechnology over a 22-year time period (1980-2001). I find evidence that the antecedents to innovation lie across different levels of analysis and can have compensating or reinforcing effects on firm-level innovative output. en_US
dc.description.degree Ph.D. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22593
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.subject Organizational learning en_US
dc.subject Dynamic capabilities en_US
dc.subject Innovation en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Intellectual capital
dc.subject.lcsh Research
dc.subject.lcsh Consolidation and merger of corporations
dc.subject.lcsh Strategic alliances (Business)
dc.subject.lcsh Technological innovations
dc.title Essays on dynamic capabilities: the role of intellectual human capital in firm innovation en_US
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Dissertation
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local.contributor.advisor Rothaermel, Frank T.
local.contributor.corporatename Scheller College of Business
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