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Assessing the influence of organizational factors on knowledge sharing in inter-firm collaborations

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Abstract

Collaborations between media organisations are becoming an increasingly common practice in the field of journalism. Academic research, so far, mostly focused on large-scale investigations and communities of digital outlets, such as fact-checkers networks. However, new types of inter-firm partnerships are emerging, namely between legacy media and tech startups, towards media innovation and digital transformation. The paper to which this database is connected aims to advance the theoretical understanding of the relationship between collaborations and media innovation. We formulate an original analytical model to assess the influence of organisational factors of collaborations on knowledge sharing, a key condition for explorative innovation. Based on the experience of the Stars4Media programme, we present an empirical application of the analytical model (based on this data-set) to a case study of thirty collaborative projects involving seventy-six European media companies.