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Ende, J.C.M. van den - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2008

Innovation offers many opportunities for corporations. That is beyond dispute. The only question is how to make the … most of them. In this lecture, I show what the process of innovation entails; I give examples of successful and failed … management of the innovation process and the organisation of system innovation. Research findings show how companies can improve …

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Can the Office Environment Stimulate a Managerâ€™s Creativity?

Ceylan, C.; Dul, J.; Aytac, S. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2008

This paper explores whether the managerâ€™s physical office work environment can stimulate the managerâ€™s creativity …. A total of 60 managers from a large manufacturing company participated in the study. They rated the creativity potential … creativity potential. Compared to offices with low creativity potential, offices with high creativity potential have lower …

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A Balanced Theory of Sourcing, Collaboration and Networks

Nooteboom, B. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2002

In a synthesis of recent advances, this article gives a fresh, balanced theory of inter-organizational relations. It integrates competence and governance perspectives. It considers the choice between mergers/acquisitions and alliances. It offers a toolbox of instruments to govern relational...

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Why New Business Development Projects Fail: Coping with the Differences of Technological versus Market Knowledge

Burgers, J.H.; Bosch, F.A.J. van den; Volberda, H.W. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2007

Managing through projects has become important for generating new knowledge to cope with technological and market discontinuities. This paper examines how the fit between the creation of technological and market knowledge and important project management characteristics, i.e. project autonomy...

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Absorptive Capacity: Antecedents, Models and Outcomes

Bosch, F.A.J. van den; Wijk, R.A.J.L. van; Volberda, H.W. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2003

This chapter focuses on the gap between the speed of proliferation of theoretical and empirical contributions and the speed of accumulation of the acquired scientific knowledge regarding absorptive capacity. To contribute to narrowing this gap, we will in particular review the conceptual...

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Innovation, learning and cluster dynamics

Nooteboom, B. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2004

innovation. It employs an analysis of three types of embedding: institutional embedding, which is often localized, structural …. It employs results from earlier research in organizational learning and innovation, and in the management of inter …

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Managing Supplier Involvement in New Product Development: A Multiple-Case Study

Echtelt, F.E.A. van; Wynstra, J.Y.F.; Weele, A.J. van; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2006

that may spin off from individual projects. Long-term collaboration benefits can only be captured if a company can build …

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Using Networks For Changing Innovation Strategy: The Case of IBM

Dittrich, K.; Duysters, G.M.; Man, A-P. de - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2004

Large-scale strategic change projects in companies may be supported by using alliance networks. This paper shows that IBMâ€™s change from an exploitation strategy towards an exploration strategy required a radically different network strategy as well. By entering into more non-equity...

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Empirical Tests Of Optimal Cognitive Distance

Wuyts, S.H.K.; Colombo, M.G.; Dutta, S.; Nooteboom, B. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2004

This article provides empirical tests of the hypothesis of â€˜optimal cognitive distanceâ€™, proposed by Nooteboom (1999, 2000), in two distinct empirical settings. Variety of cognition, needed for learning, has two dimensions: the number of agents with different cognition, and...

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Strategic and Operational Management of Supplier Involvement in New Product Development: a Contingency Perspective

Echtelt, F.E.A. van; Wynstra, J.Y.F.; Weele, A.J. van - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2007

This paper examines how firms succeed to leverage supplier involvement in product development. The paper extends earlier work on managing supplier involvement by providing an integrated analysis of results, processes and conditions both at the level of individual development projects and the...

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