This paper employs a "deconstructive" approach to examine the relationship between forces for organizational centralization and decentralization. Three common assumptions: that the "information age" of the 1980s and early 1990s was enabling a permanent emancipatory movement away from centralized...

Representations of strategy tend to either be so generalized as to have little real meaning for employees, or go into such detail that people struggle to understand what is really required. The problem is this: a strategy not understood by those charged with implementing it is as bad as, or even...

Purpose - While the benefits of open innovation (OI) and crowdsourcing (CS) for solutions to R&D problems have been widely promoted in the last ten years, their appropriateness for organisations specialising in providing R&D services has not been explicitly considered. This paper aims to examine...