東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Structure-scope matching: A study of...

Toh, Puay Khoon.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Structure-scope matching: A study of the interrelationship between organization structure and innovation in the United States communications industry.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Structure-scope matching: A study of the interrelationship between organization structure and innovation in the United States communications industry./
Author:	Toh, Puay Khoon.
Description:	165 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Gautam Ahuja.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-08A.
Subject:	Business Administration, Management. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3276312
ISBN:	9780549180890

Structure-scope matching: A study of the interrelationship between organization structure and innovation in the United States communications industry.
Toh, Puay Khoon.

Structure-scope matching: A study of the interrelationship between organization structure and innovation in the United States communications industry. - 165 p.

Adviser: Gautam Ahuja.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2007.

In this dissertation, I explore the interrelationship between organization structure and innovation. I adopt a knowledge-based perspective to understand how the structure of a firm's innovative activities may both contribute to and be affected by the innovations the firm produces. Two aspects of organization structure are examined - R&D task specialization and inter-unit integration. I propose that with less R&D task specialization, or with greater inter-unit integration, the firm's R&D units tend to accumulate contextual knowledge that induces them to generate innovations of wider scope of application, and vice versa. I then argue that as the R&D units accumulate more wide scope innovations, the development of these innovations will in turn reaffirm the need for low R&D task specialization or high inter-unit integration, and vice versa. This interrelationship leads to a stable structure-scope matching, i.e. matching between the type of organization structure and the scope of innovation. In short, generalization (specialization) in structure induces R&D units to produce generic (specialized) innovations, and the effective development of generic (specialized) innovations requires the units to remain generalized (specialized) in structure. I advance this matching as an explanation for why firms persistently build resources of different nature. This matching also helps explain why some firms may have difficulties in adjusting their organization structures to adapt to new environments or strategies. I conduct the empirical analyses for my dissertation in the setting of the U.S. communications equipment industry for years 1985-2003, and use the exogenous shocks - R&D state tax credit implementations, the Northridge Earthquake, and the Telecommunications Act of 1996 - as randomized quasi-experiments to examine the two-way relationship. Findings support the proposed structure-scope matching. My dissertation also contains a methodological contribution: using a novel technique of textual coding, I introduce new measures of scope of innovation based on the language used in patent claims texts.

ISBN: 9780549180890Subjects--Topical Terms:

626628
Business Administration, Management.

Structure-scope matching: A study of the interrelationship between organization structure and innovation in the United States communications industry.
LDR:03068nam 2200277 a 45 001 943520
005 20110520
008 110520s2007 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9780549180890
035 $a (UMI)AAI3276312
035 $a AAI3276312
040 $a UMI $c UMI
100 1 $a Toh, Puay Khoon. $3 1267561
245 1 0 $a Structure-scope matching: A study of the interrelationship between organization structure and innovation in the United States communications industry.
300 $a 165 p.
500 $a Adviser: Gautam Ahuja.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-08, Section: A, page: 3475.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2007.
520 $a In this dissertation, I explore the interrelationship between organization structure and innovation. I adopt a knowledge-based perspective to understand how the structure of a firm's innovative activities may both contribute to and be affected by the innovations the firm produces. Two aspects of organization structure are examined - R&D task specialization and inter-unit integration. I propose that with less R&D task specialization, or with greater inter-unit integration, the firm's R&D units tend to accumulate contextual knowledge that induces them to generate innovations of wider scope of application, and vice versa. I then argue that as the R&D units accumulate more wide scope innovations, the development of these innovations will in turn reaffirm the need for low R&D task specialization or high inter-unit integration, and vice versa. This interrelationship leads to a stable structure-scope matching, i.e. matching between the type of organization structure and the scope of innovation. In short, generalization (specialization) in structure induces R&D units to produce generic (specialized) innovations, and the effective development of generic (specialized) innovations requires the units to remain generalized (specialized) in structure. I advance this matching as an explanation for why firms persistently build resources of different nature. This matching also helps explain why some firms may have difficulties in adjusting their organization structures to adapt to new environments or strategies. I conduct the empirical analyses for my dissertation in the setting of the U.S. communications equipment industry for years 1985-2003, and use the exogenous shocks - R&D state tax credit implementations, the Northridge Earthquake, and the Telecommunications Act of 1996 - as randomized quasi-experiments to examine the two-way relationship. Findings support the proposed structure-scope matching. My dissertation also contains a methodological contribution: using a novel technique of textual coding, I introduce new measures of scope of innovation based on the language used in patent claims texts.
590 $a School code: 0127.
650 4 $a Business Administration, Management. $3 626628
650 4 $a Sociology, Organizational. $3 1018023
690 $a 0454
690 $a 0703
710 2 $a University of Michigan. $3 777416
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 68-08A.
790 $a 0127
790 1 0 $a Ahuja, Gautam, $e advisor
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2007
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3276312