Purpose Researchers agree that collaboration networks can be an important implement in a firm's innovation process, but there is limited empirical evidence on actually how they facilitate the new product development (NPD). The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach Using...

The process for absorbing knowledge becomes an essential element for innovation in firms and in adapting to changes in the competitive environment. In this paper, we present an improved knowledge diffusion hypernetwork (IKDH) model based on the idea that knowledge will spread from the target...

This paper shows empirically how the choice of certain data pre-processing methods for disambiguating author names affects our understanding of the structure and evolution of co-publication networks. Thirty years of publication records from 125 Information Systems journals were obtained from...

Empirical investigation results on weighted and un-weighted assortativity, act degree distribution, degree distribution and node strength distribution of nine real world collaboration networks have been presented. The investigations propose that act degree distribution, degree distribution and...