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Dancing with strangers: a dyadic view of university-industry research collaborations

2024; Taylor & Francis; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/13662716.2024.2432628

1469-8390

Martin Hemmert, Anat Hovav,

Management and Organizational Studies

We seek to advance the understanding of the relational challenges that divergent organisations face in innovation-driven research collaborations. Building on the institutional logic perspective, we identify university-industry research collaborations (UIRCs) as inter-organisational relationships (IORs) between organisations with diverging institutional logics. Applying the actor-partner interdependence model, we study 98 dyadic UIRCs in South Korea and find that universities and companies' collaboration outcomes are positively related only to their own perceived behaviour and not to their partners' behaviour. This study highlights the need for dyadic research design to understand perceptional gaps in such IORs. For the management of innovation-related UIRCs, our findings imply that while the actor's perceived outcomes can be enhanced by converging the collaborators' decision-making styles, the actor's outcomes may not be improved or adversely effected by the partner's behaviour unless the partner's perspective is internalised in the mindset of the actor.