IT-enabled innovations are critical for competitive success in a range of industries including financial brokerage. This paper addresses the crucial question: How do capability development strategies differ between first-movers and late-entrants in IT-enabled services. We develop a theory based...

This paper presents a review of existing theoretical perspectives and empirical work on strategic IT outsourcing. By presenting the main findings of various recent studies and elaborating on current research gaps it conveys a picture of the past research, the present findings and the future...

This paper argues that complementary humanresource practices play an important role inthe development of a knowledge based theory offirm. In general, such a theory might beadvanced through investigating complementarycoordination mechanisms as components ofgovernance structures. In particular,...

It is argued that an evolutionaryperspective on firm boundaries with its strongfocus on knowledge, as well as processes ofsearch, learning and capability development isinstrumental in developing a theory of firmboundaries that is close to managerialconcerns. Building on insights in...

Guest Editors’ Introduction -- Governing Knowledge Sharing in Multinational Enterprises -- Organization of Research and Development in Large Multinational Firms -- Governance of Knowledge-teams in the MNC: The Case of HeidelbergCement -- Knowledge Transfer Performance of Multinational...

Die deutsche Wirtschaftspolitik steht nach der Bundestagswahl vor großen Herausforderungen, etwa im Hinblick auf die Dekarbonisierung, die Digitalisierung und Modernisierung der öffentlichen Verwaltung sowie den demographischer Wandel und seine Folgen für die sozialen Sicherungssysteme....