(VF)Cet article étudie les mécanismes de garantie mis en oeuvre par les membres d’un réseau d’alliances développant un projet d’innovation : garanties d’image, financières ou sur les actifs spécifiques. Nous tentons de combler un vide dans la littérature sur ces garanties, prises...

This paper explores the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and innovation from a firm strategic perspective. Matching Community Innovation Survey data with specific data collected about the CSR behaviour of Luxembourg firms, the authors identify two types of firms...

Research into organization theory contains abundant evidence of the positive effects of ambidexterity on a firm's performance, and of the influence of organizational context on ambidexterity. The present research tests whether organizational context affects innovation ambidexterity. Our results,...

Research into organisation theory contains abundant evidence of the positive effects of ambidexterity on a firm's performance, and of the influence of organisational context on ambidexterity. The present research tests whether organisational context affects innovation ambidexterity. Our results,...

The paper investigates the patterns of persistence of innovation and of the properties of firms' knowledge base (KB) across a sample of Italian firms in the period 1998-2006. The analysis draws upon a theoretical representation of knowledge as a collective good, stemming from the recombination...

"Vertige" est le mot qui vient immédiatement à l'esprit quand nous contemplons le tourbillon des logos et marques territoriales qui s'étalent désormais sous nos yeux. " Inquiétude " c'est le sentiment que l'on peut ressentir à la vue des bricolages visuels et des simplifications qui...

The "hierarchical and linear model of innovation" (HLMI) is often used to describe how innovations are produced. HLMI presents several shortcomings and one possible way of overcoming them is to consider innovations from a system perspective. In order to achieve this, this article uses Kline and...

Nous nous intéressons ici aux phases amont de la mise en place de projets complexes. Nous considérons comme " projets complexes ", des projets qui se proposent de spécifier, de mettre en œuvre et de pérenniser des changements organisationnels profonds dans les entreprises ou plus...