著者

高田 直樹

出版者

The Academic Association for Organizational Science

雑誌

組織学会大会論文集 (ISSN:21868530)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.7, no.2, pp.44-49, 2018 (Released:2018-12-27)

参考文献数

17

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This study investigates the factor that promotes technological breakthrough by the established firm, focusing on the individual behavior of inventors. Especially, I hypothesize the effect of “deviant behavior” of inventors on the radicalness of technologies invented by those inventors. Using patent data of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, I show the effect of deviant behavior depends on the reference point of the newness of technologies. This study highlights the role of deviant inventors as a source of technological exploration for the focal firm, not technological breakthrough which has high impact to other firms.