Dig Deeper or Diversify? The Rewards and Penalties of Knowledge Exploration and Exploitation Capabilities in the Context of IS Scholar Publication Productivity

摘要: We develop a model of knowledge creation in rapidly changing academic disciplines and posit that it is important for scholars such environments to explore variety domains as opposed focusing on narrow ensure publication productivity. hypothesize the IS domain, an example environment, explorative capability will positively impact creation. On other hand, exploitative penalize researcher by negatively impacting Using bibliometric information who published top 10 journals from 2000- 2011, we perform co-citation analysis identify key domains. indices borrowed ecology economics, operationalize capabilities based researcher’s breadth depth previous publications those Results regression 91 provide strong evidence our hypotheses.