Without innovation, companies die. Managing the innovation process well is important for companies and for nations as a whole.This book shows how the innovation process is changing profoundly, with significant implications for managers and public policy-makers.A new kind of technology,...

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in international markets. This study argues that the ownership structures of SMEs influence their proclivity to take risks and expand the scale and scope of their internationalization efforts. Data from 889 Swedish SMEs reveal that...

Current theories of how organizations harness knowledge for innovative activity cannot convincingly explain emergent practices whereby firms selectively reveal knowledge to their advantage. We conceive selective revealing as a strategic mechanism to re-shape the collaborative behavior of other...