innovation plays a key role throughout the period, commercial and logistical innovation are of increasing strategic importance …

This paper explores how value-chain governance affects the innovation performance of suppliers of intermediate products … is more conducive to innovation for suppliers, especially when these firms have medium capability levels. Conversely … intermediates and innovation performance, which indicates that technology-gap is an important mediator of learning within value …

Over the last few decades, innovation has doubled automobile performance at a time when outsourcing has increased. But … outsourcing is subject to well-known contracting hazards that would also afflict outsourcing for innovation. In this paper, we … examine how supplier firms generate innovation in the presence of such hazards, using a recent survey of the US automotive …