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ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
Volume 61, Issue 4, Pages 1369-1402Publisher
ACAD MANAGEMENT
DOI: 10.5465/amj.2015.0573
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- U.K. Research Council [EP/K039695/1]
- EPSRC [EP/K039695/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Research on innovation networks has highlighted the pivotal role that actors with more prominence and power, such as hub firms, may play in orchestrating the activities of other network members along a collective innovation effort. Our study examined the under-theorized, but no less important, type of orchestration that characterizes other organizations, such as business incubators and venture associations, who seek to support the dispersed entrepreneurial efforts of network members. We refer to this type as open-system orchestration, as opposed to the commonly studied closed-system type performed by hub firms. Our findings reveal how the processes of open-system orchestration differ markedly from those of closed-system orchestration, and detail how these processes influence the micro-foundations of network members' sensing capabilities. By doing so, we also offer empirical substantiation and theoretical elaboration to the idea that dynamic capabilities might not reside exclusively inside firms, but could be co-created relationally with other parties in the business ecosystem.
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