This article illustrates how open innovation can be applied to understand renewal processes in complex sectors of society that involve many public, private and collective actors. The article discusses how a city renewal project can be conceptualized as ?open city innovation?. A natural...

Purpose – This paper aims to set up a natural experiment as action research and to develop a framework of cognitive distance of informants to improve the initiation of service encounter-based innovation. Design/methodology/approach – Natural experiment as action research in one Scandinavian...

Reports a pilot study of the relative importance of import decision variables as rated by Australian managers. A systematic sample of 104 Australian managers representing different companies participated in the study. Australian importers rated product quality as the most important variable when...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the need in biotechnology to integrate a variety of knowledge bases to build the intellectual asset base of the commercial entity operating in the biotechnology industry. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based upon a single case...

Trading companies face global competitive pressures to adapt their roles and strategies. Even Swedish trading companies, although specialised in terms of products and on overseas markets, have experienced more difficult competition. However, little or no research has been done on the commercial...

Values have become a subject of growing interest, and are now generally accepted as an important factor in marketing research. However, value research that relies solely on a simple first‐order value paradigm, faces certain conceptual difficulties. By using a radically different formal value...