Lovejoy, William S.; Sinha, Amitabh - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 7, pp. 1127-1145
What lines of communication among members of an organization are most productive in the early, ideation phase of … innovation? We investigate this question with a recombination and selection model of knowledge transfer operating through a … social network. We find that ideation is accelerated when people in the organization dynamically churn through a large …