Fast Friends: The Impact of Short-Term Visits on Firms’ Invention Outcomes

The authors sincerely thank the five R&D managers from leading pharmaceutical companies for sharing their insights in the interviews. The authors also appreciate the conference participants at the 2022 Munich Summer Institute, 2022 Strategy Science Conference, 2022 DRUID Conference, 2022 Academy of Management Meeting, and 2023 wISE Conference, as well as seminar attendees at KAIST Business School, Nanyang Technology University, Seoul National University, and USC Marshall. Any errors in this work are the authors’ own. Hyo Kang’s current affiliation is SNU Business School, Seoul National University, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, South Korea.