Original paper
When Do Expert Teams Fail to Create Impactful Inventions?
Abstract
We investigate the salience of expertise in creating high impact inventions and question experts’ ability to deploy novel ideas. Specifically, we examine the relationships between expertise, component originality, and a team's structural holes’ position in the collaborative network and propose that, in relative terms, expert teams create lower impact inventions if they deploy more original components and if they occupy structural holes. We test...
Paper Details
Title
When Do Expert Teams Fail to Create Impactful Inventions?
Published Date
May 12, 2019
Volume
56
Issue
6
Pages
1073 - 1104
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