Der Beitrag untersucht die Kommunikation von Innovationskompetenzen deutscher Unternehmen: Im Mittelpunkt der Ausfuehrungen steht die uebereinstimmung von faktischer Innovationskompetenz mit der externen Berichterstattung des Unternehmens ueber seine Innovationen und seinen Innovationserfolg. Im...

Purpose: Firms are challenged by digital transformation, as their organizational design is not up to par. Mercedes-Benz.io, a 100% subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz AG Daimler group, employs Holacracy, a self-management framework that abolishes traditional hierarchies in order to be more responsive...

The advent of mobility-as-a-service and the disruption of the automotive industry are both overlapping and fuelled by the same developments and thus raise a very fundamental question: are we at peak car? Based on the author’s extensive field research, academic study, and professional...

Over the past two decades multinational firms from high-technology industries have increasingly relied on outsourcing of production to external suppliers. We present a theoretical framework that stems from the resource-based view of the firm (RBV) and develop hypotheses claiming that outsourcing...

Chan-Olmsted and Chang's (2003) framework for the analysis of product-diversification strategies of media conglomerates is critiqued from a dynamic resource-based perspective. In the spirit of spurring intellectual debate, this article proposes a revised framework that incorporates newer...

Over the past two decades multinational firms from high-technology industries have increasingly relied on outsourcing of production to external suppliers. We present a theoretical framework that stems from the resource-based view of the firm (RBV) and develop hypotheses claiming that outsourcing...