This study investigates the association between types of trust and inter-firm learning in buyer-supplier exchanges in an industrial cluster. More specifically, the study explores the impact of trust types on knowledge sharing among manufacturer and retailer SMEs in a furniture cluster. The...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine what kind of supplier relationship management activities can be seen as value-creating activities and how those might affect the buyer’s dependence on its suppliers. Power and dependence provide specific insights into the supplier...

In this article, we study how the configuration of a publicly promoted clusters policy—the Global Clusters policy initiated by the Walloon Government in Belgium—influenced the behaviors of R&D practitioners. At first, we explored the background of the Global Cluster policy in an effort to...

Based on analysis of existing approaches to the definition of "management " and "innovation" in the investigation of the author 's interpretation of "managerial innovations". The necessity of introduction of managerial innovations in the conditions of operation of industrial enterprises.

Despite innovation's importance in firm strategy and competitiveness, most innovation research fails to examine some important questions relating to innovation. This study focuses on two innovation management issues: Identification of determinants of the innovation management process and the...