Crossing Technological Boundaries: Brokerage and the Emergence of Innovation Networks
Academy of Management Review
This article explores how companies working on new cancer treatments collaborate or compete through alliance networks, showing that those bridging old and new technologies often help others connect to reduce uncertainty, but tend to block connections when they may threaten their own competitive advantage.
Mike Howard is the Hilsinger-Janson Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the Ivy College of Business. His paper is published in the Academy of Management Review.