complementarities which may arise when cross-functional teams are used in different elements of the innovation process in UK and German … more uniform in the UK than in Germany. The most uniform complementarities are between product design and development and …Cross-functional teams play a potentially important part in the innovation process enabling knowledge sharing, the …

existence of complementarities in the use of external networking between stages of the innovation process in a sample of UK and … complementarities in the case of Germany, with the exception of the product engineering stage. By contrast, the UK exhibits generally …This paper contributes to the developing literature on complementarities in organizational design. We test for the …

on innovation performance. Networking and boundary-spanning activities are also increasingly recognised as important … contributors to innovation success. In this article we attempt to discover whether these factors are associated: in particular, is … there any link between plant location, agglomeration effects and the extent of outsourcing in the innovation process? Using …