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...

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...

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...

This paper brings together the two important topics of corporate environmental management and corporate governance by exploring the impact of various governance mechanisms on the level of environmental performance that is realized by firms. Specifically, we hypothesize that anti-takeover...