As interfirm collaboration becomes a regular occurrence in the organizational landscape, it is vital to reach a better understanding of how the resources pooled by different firms interact and influence the creation of value. We build on prior research to understand complementary combination of resources as those that fill a gap in the resource endowments of potential partners. At the same time we propose that a much sharper understanding is gained by bringing also task characteristics into the picture. Further, unlike part of the recent literature, we propose that complementarity arises from diversity and dissimilarity alike, and that it is also subject to dissipation. A test of our ideas on a large sample of construction alliances yields strong support for our model.
How Wide and Broad is the Gap? Complementarities Among Resources and Tasks
SODA, GIUSEPPE;FURLOTTI, MARCO
2010
Abstract
As interfirm collaboration becomes a regular occurrence in the organizational landscape, it is vital to reach a better understanding of how the resources pooled by different firms interact and influence the creation of value. We build on prior research to understand complementary combination of resources as those that fill a gap in the resource endowments of potential partners. At the same time we propose that a much sharper understanding is gained by bringing also task characteristics into the picture. Further, unlike part of the recent literature, we propose that complementarity arises from diversity and dissimilarity alike, and that it is also subject to dissipation. A test of our ideas on a large sample of construction alliances yields strong support for our model.
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