delivery. Among these, governance networks have become a widespread mechanism for planning and delivering infrastructure …. However, despite substantial public investments in road infrastructure that are made through governance networks, little is …. Although governance networks undertake management functions, it is unclear what drives stakeholder engagement within this …

integration of network governance in such projects in order to perform successfully. Management recommendations are generated by … in projects. The ability of an organization to develop networks in short time, to form and to manage them becomes thus an …

Innovation can be defined broadly to include the development and uptake of new technology, the introduction of new … work organisation or management structures and approaches. Innovation, or the commercial application of new knowledge, is … field of innovation in modern economies is associated with the rapid development and application of information and …

innovation processes. Yet, pharmaceutical firms must innovate to compete. Outsourcing knowledge intensive activities to knowledge … process organizations (KPOs) serves to reduce innovation process obstacles. Grounded in diffusion theory and strategic … and scope, knowledge sharing, and learning. This paper claims that (a) accumulated core competencies of multinational …

examine its overall evaluation and governance from the perspective of science and technology policies. Although China … Actor-Networks Theory as a basic theoretical framework to reveal how China’s biotechnology industry develops in the form of … evolving networks within the country’s social context and to identify what kinds of relationships exist among the relevant …

separate and distinct governance arrangements for each of these functions due to their criticality to achieving social outcomes …-coordinated and collaborative way to deliver services. Yet, it is unclear how to conceptualize these networks of relationships and to … determine the types of entities and arrangements that will best contribute to successful collaborative governance. Stewardship …

opportunity for sustainable advantage) are predictors of selecting the governance mode between e-collaboration and arm …’s-length relationship, and that an intention to e-collaborate moderates the governance mode choice. Originality/value – Testable … desired governance mode. …

knowledge and by assisting in financing the development of new ideas amongst small firms. Although innovation occurs in large as … well as small firms, the literature on small enterprise innovation draws heavily on Schumpeter’s depiction of the central … argued that entrepreneurs drove the process of innovation and that innovation was a stimulus to economic development and …

The objective of this paper is to examine value chain governance through case studies of four different certified value … chains, and 3) what does this mix of actors and values contribute to our understanding of value chain governance. Between … networks are still in place. The certification systems only add additional buyers to global value chains that were already …