时间：2013年1月4号下午1：30～3：30 （周五）
地点：后主楼1610会议室
Abstract: Innovation links the past to the present and the present to the future. In the process of innovation, organizations leverage their capabilities accumulated through past histories and stretch their capabilities to compete for the future. By exploiting a firm’s preexisting technological know-how, new products developed by the firm can achieve superior performance in the market. By stretching a firm’s technological know-how to a higher level, the firm may encounter difficulties in learning unfamiliar, new knowledge elements. Based on an empirical study of new product introduction in the workstation industry between 1980 and 1996, we find that capability stretching is generally detrimental to capability learning and to the survival of new products. However, we also find that organizational boundaries affect capability stretching. In particular, vertical integration increases the difficulties of capability stretching, thus exacerbating the negative relationship between capability stretching and new product survival. We also find that the market scope mitigates the difficulties of capability stretching, thus mitigating the negative relationship between capability stretching and new product performance. We contribute to the innovation literature and the organizational capabilities literature by calling attention to the difference between capability stock and capability change and to the impact of organizational boundaries on capability learning.
主讲人：王唐（博士），美国密歇根理工大学商学院创业与创新Charles C. and John G. Gates 讲席教授
王博士拥有美国密苏里大学亨利布劳克管理学院的博士学位，专业从事创业与创新领域的教学、研究和咨询。他的研究成果已发表在国际领先的Journal of Business Venturing、Journal of Product Innovation Management及R&D Management等著名期刊，他的博士论文曾获得中国管理研究国际学会(IACMR)颁发的李宁论文奖一等奖。王博士还曾获得了由国家教育部授予的“国家优秀自费留学生奖学金”以及堪萨斯城亚美商会颁发的“杰出学术奖”。