<title>Abstract</title> This article uses case studies to address the sources of social innovation, a major contributor to economic growth and welfare services. Following the findings of user-innovation research in the commercial sector, the authors found that social-problem users innovate new social services...

The purpose of the paper is to report a case study of management challenges and appropriate management competences when implementing an online user innovation tool. The case study illustrates a theoretically derived framework of the management competences related to online innovation tools. The...

This study has investigated the changes in corporate strategy and performance in 20 large Swedish MNC's between 1985, 1994 and 1998. It has found a strong pattern of product focusing, increased internationalisation, and a strong increase in accounting-based performance. This development seems to...

Since the early 1990s outsourcing has been a major industrial trend. In the literature the economic advantages of outsourcing are often taken for granted. This article aims to take a detailed look at actual outcomes in terms of costs and competences. The focus is on outsourcing of manufacturing...

Summary For a long time, the telecom equipment industry has been at the forefront of outsourcing and relocating production operations to contract manufacturing firms located in Asia and Eastern Europe. Recently, however, leading firms have begun to revise this strategy, based on their...