The "open innovation" model is currently being touted as a superior path for achieving long-term success. Rather than relying on their own, limited resources for research and development in the traditional, closed invention system, firms are encouraged to share knowledge across firm boundaries...

The "open innovation" model is currently being touted as a superior path for achieving long-term success. Rather than relying on their own, limited resources for research and development in the traditional, closed invention system, firms are encouraged to share knowledge across firm boundaries...

The impact of financial markets on firms and industries has been relatively neglected in the field of management. This dissertation addresses this gap by developing theory and testing hypotheses with a case study of the retail brokerage industry and a large scale empirical analysis of a 40 year...

In this paper we test whether investors incorporate into stock market prices the future increase or decrease in firm value due to corporate strategies that cause better or worse firm environmental performance. We report strong evidence that low-polluter companies have substantial abnormal...

From a reactive, antagonistic stance towards environmental regulations, many firms have evolved to act in a pro-active fashion to integrate environmental issues into their core strategies. Driving force behind this development is a growing insight that environmental efforts can potentially be a...

In recent years, the development of the idea of "Open Innovation" (Chesbrough, 2004; 2006) lead to the emergence of "Innovation brokers" who connect those seeking for solutions with a rather large number of potential knowledge suppliers. In this paper we analyze the implication that the existence of...

Network research has been criticized for neglecting causes of network structure in favor of its effects. The ongoing discussion regarding the performance effects of structural holes vs. closure is a lively example of this behavior. Furthermore, recently there has been a call for moving away from...