This paper explores the impact of management characteristics and patterns of collaboration on a firmÕs innovation … management characteristics and collaboration behaviour. Collaboration, organisational flexibility, formality in management … innovative efficiency in high-tech SMEs is significantly enhanced by collaboration, formal management structure and training; and …

, collaborating together beyond their own organizations. The case study suggests that successful collaboration requires a certain type … of inter-organizational coordination ('collaboration mode'). The necessity of coordinating inter-organizational relations … under the collaboration mode can be analyzed using the concept of 'technical core'. Inter-organizational collaboration can …

success. Experiences of unsuccessful collaboration are also recounted. The findings illustrate how those involved saw … collaboration were primarily economic, the affective aspects of the close inter-personal relationship provided the 'glue'. The paper …