Bridging the gap: unleashing the power of non-core departments through interdepartmental collaboration
Siyu Ren, Yile Wang · 2024
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Siyu Ren and Yile Wang study how support departments shape firm success in a 2023 paper. Past research praised core units and brushed aside the rest. The pair mine twenty years of data from listed Chinese firms. A growth model tests whether varied departments lift output and growth.
Support units did lift firm performance in clear ways. Gains shrank when broad variety met deep firm knowledge at once. Ownership form, market setting, and leader schooling and age also shaped the effect. The authors urge firms to build bridges across units instead of walls. Hidden value in plain units can fuel steady growth when teams work as one.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Siyu Ren, Yile Wang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 53 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |