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Do Ties Really Bind? the Effect of Knowledge and Commercialization Networks on Opposition to Standards ௠ Academy of Management Journal 2014, Vol. 57, No. 2, 515–540. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amj.2011.1064 DO TIES REALLY BIND? THE EFFECT OF KNOWLEDGE AND COMMERCIALIZATION NETWORKS ON OPPOSITION TO STANDARDS RAM RANGANATHAN Management Department, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin LORI ROSENKOPF Management Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania We examine how the multiplicity of interorganizational relationships affects strategic behavior by studying the influence of two such relationships—knowledge linkages and commercialization ties—on the voting behavior of firms in a technological standards- setting committee. We find that, while centrally positioned firms in the knowledge network exhibit lower opposition to the standard, centrally positioned firms in the commercialization network exhibit higher opposition to the standard. Thus, the in- fluence of network position on coordination is contingent upon the type of interorgan- izational tie. Furthermore, when we consider these relationships jointly, knowledge centrality moderates the opposing effect of commercialization centrality, such that the commercialization centrality effect increases with decreasing levels of knowledge centrality. In other words, firms most likely to delay the standard are peripheral in the knowledge network yet central in the commercialization network, which suggests that they have the most to lose from changes to current technology. Over the past two decades, a key thesis that re- position influences several different outcomes, verberates across strategy and organization theory including innovation (e.g., Ahuja, 2000), survival research is that interorganizational relationships af- (Baum, Calabrese, & Silverman, 2000), market share fect both firms’ strategic actions and outcomes. Em- (Shipilov, 2006), and financial performance (e.g., Za- pirical support for this idea demonstrates that a heer & Bell, 2005). The empirical evidence for the firm’s network position influences its investments effect of strategic networks comes from a wide (e.g., Stuart & Sorenson, 2007), its alliance forma- range of industries, including investment bank- tion patterns (e.g., Gulati, 1995a, 1999; Rosenkopf & ing, computers, chemicals, mobile communica- Padula, 2008; Walker, Kogut, & Shan, 1997), and its tions, and biotechnology. choice of acquisition partners (e.g., Yang, Lin, & While most prior organizational network studies Peng, 2011). Similarly, strategy scholars inter- either focus exclusively on a single interorganiza- ested in understanding heterogeneity in firm tional relationship or pool different types of ties performance have found that a firm’s network together in an aggregated network, the more com- Financial support for this research was provided by Texas, as well as from seminar participants at the 2011 the Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Man- ASQ–OMT, 2011 Academy of Management, and 2011 agement and the Mack Institute for Innovation Man- Strategic Management Society (SMS) conferences. This agement (both of which are based at the Wharton paper won a 2011 SMS “Best Conference PhD Paper” School of the University of Pennsylvania). Matheen Prize and was a finalist for the 2011 SMS “Best Con- Musaddiq, Varun Deedwandiya, Michael Lai, and Bev- ference Paper” Prize. It is also part of a dissertation erly Tantiansu provided invaluable research assis- that received a Dissertation Grant Award from the tance. We appreciate the comments from Ranjay Gulati SMS’s Strategy Research Foundation, and was a final- and three anonymous reviewers, which helped to en- ist for the Academy of Management’s Wiley Blackwell hance the quality of this paper substantially. We would “Best Dissertation” Award in the Business Policy & Strat- also like to acknowledge the many helpful suggestions egy division and for the “Best Dissertation” Award in the from the Management Department faculty, doctoral Academy of Management’s Technology and Innovation students at Wharton, and faculty at the University of Management division. 515 Copyright of the Academy of Management, all rights reserved. Contents may not be copied, emailed, posted to a listserv, or otherwise transmitted without the copyright holder’s express written permission. Users may print, download, or email articles for individual use only. 516 Academy of Management Journal April plex reality is that firms are simultaneously embed- technological evolution (e.g., Rosenkopf & Almeida, ded in multiple types of interorganizational net- 2003; Rosenkopf & Nerkar, 2001). In contrast, alli- works (Gulati, 1998; Shipilov & Li, 2012). One ances are also featured as mechanisms that help firms concern with suppressing multiplicity is whether exploit existing complementary resources to success- results obtained are generalizable across the differ- fully adapt to the challenges posed by new technol- ent network types in which a firm is embedded ogies (Rothaermel, 2001). While numerous network (Inkpen & Tsang, 2005). Additionally, however, it studies have examined networks comprising both overlooks the interplay between a firm’s positions types of alliances, few acknowledge the exploration– in different interorganizational networks. In other exploitation duality in the underlying ties in con- words, a firm’s positions in multiple networks may structing these networks (see Gupta, Smith, & Shal- simultaneously influence its behavior (Gulati, ley, 2006). As Table 1 shows, studies of alliance 1999), and, depending upon the behavioral impli- networks either combine both types into a single net- cations of specific types of ties, there may be both work or limit their scope to a single type, thus ne- bright and dark sides to firms’ embeddedness in glecting multiplicity within the alliance context. interorganizational relationships (Gulati & West- Given this gap in interorganizational research, phal, 1999). Therefore, teasing out such interplay our goal is to highlight the tensions inherent in may be particularly insightful if divergent behav- alliance network multiplicity by examining how a iors or outcomes can be predicted when the effect firm’s positions in different types of alliance net- of each relationship is considered independently.1 works influence its strategic behavior differently. In this paper, we examine multiplicity in firms’ In investigating multiplicity, we dichotomize strategic alliance ties—interorganizational relation- firms’ participation in alliance networks based on ships that encompass a variety of formal agree- the functional objective of their alliance ties— ments between firms, including joint research and whether the goal of specific ties is to spur explora- development (R&D), technology exchange, licens- tion of new knowledge or to enable exploitation ing, and marketing arrangements (Gulati, 1995a). via commercialization of existing capabilities and Our specific focus in studying multiplicity is on the know-how. Our context is a voluntary technology different types of alliance ties firms have across standards-setting organization (SSO)—an industry- their sets of alliance relationships, and the diver- wide committee through which engineers from dif- gent influences of these different types on firms’ ferent firms attempt to forge a shared set of rules for strategic choices.2 Within the large body of alliance future technological development (Dokko, Nigam, research, significant attention has been devoted to & Rosenkopf, 2012; Rosenkopf, Metiu, & George, the potential of alliances to function as dual path- 2001; Simcoe, 2012). SSOs have increasingly be- ways that can enable both new knowledge creation come a preferred arrangement for coordinating and exploitation of existing complementary know- technological change and innovation across large how (Koza & Lewin, 1998; Lavie & Rosenkopf, numbers of firms (Chiao, Lerner, & Tirole, 2007; 2006; Rothaermel & Deeds, 2004). For instance, al- Farrell & Simcoe, 2012; Lavie, Lechner, & Singh, liances are often conceptualized as boundary-span- 2007). Within this context, we examine the influ- ning mechanisms that help organizations incorpo- ence of firms’ network positions on their voting rate distant knowledge and, ultimately, shape behavior to support or oppose the formation of standards. Intuitively, we expect the influence of multiple strategic networks on firms’ conduct to be 1 One of the central tenets of the behavioral theory of especially salient in the standards-setting context, the firm is that firms satisfice across multiple goals and as negotiations to arrive at a consensus standard are across different organizational coalitions (Cyert & March, conducted multilaterally, where prior interorgani- 1963). Since a firm’s position in each network signifies a zational linkages are likely to have an important strategic resource that has emerged from a path-depen- bearing. Our specific choices of context (SSO in a dent pattern of investments and commitments (Gulati, technological change setting) and strategic behav- 1999), it may make decisions that involve trade-offs ior (voting for/against the standard) are particularly across these different network resources. 2 Note that the potential overlap of the different types suitable for illuminating the contrasting influences of ties a firm has with the same partner firm also consti- of firms’ positions in knowledge networks focused tutes a kind of multiplicity or multiplexity. Although on longer-term exploration versus positions in these types of ties are included in our analyses, we do not commercialization
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