Kuittinen, HannaPuumalainen, KaisuJantunen, AriKyläheiko, KaleviPätäri, Satu2024-07-242024-07-242013-01-01Kuittinen , H , Puumalainen , K , Jantunen , A , Kyläheiko , K & Pätäri , S 2013 , ' Coping with uncertainty - Exploration, exploitation, and collaboration in R &D ' , International Journal of Business Innovation and Research , vol. 7 , no. 3 , pp. 340-361 . https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBIR.2013.0536351751-0252https://hdl.handle.net/11556/3573This paper studies the formation of and the motives for research and development (R&D) activities. In it, we explore the linkages between explorative and exploitative R&D activities and the different types of governance structures firms use when organising R&D. Additionally, we analyse the relationship between different kinds of firm-external uncertainties arising from the operating environments and the organisation of R&D activities. Finally, we scrutinise the impact of the collaboration mode on a firm's innovative performance, and stress the important role of knowledge sharing as a generator of success in innovative performance. We employ survey data from our sample of 299 Finnish companies. The findings indicate that a firm's choice of R&D governance structure is partly affected by the selection of an explorative or exploitative strategy, which in turn depends on the degree of firm-internal uncertainty. External dynamism is an additional factor affecting the choice of the preferred governance structure.22enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccessjournal article10.1504/IJBIR.2013.053635Environmental dynamismExploitationExplorationInnovation performanceKnowledge sharingR&DR&D cooperationResearch and developmentSurveyBusiness and International ManagementManagement of Technology and Innovationhttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84877262282&partnerID=8YFLogxK