As inter-firm collaboration plays an increasingly important role in firm innovation, many firms are engaged in multiple partnerships forming portfolios of alliances. Research in marketing has predominately focused on dyadic relationships without considering the important interdependencies among...

Managers and management scholars have traditionally embraced the premise that sustainable competitive advantage must be developed by firms to achieve and perpetuate competitive superiority. The validity of the notion that competitive advantages are sustainable began to be questioned toward the...

Established companies are clamoring for breakthrough innovation, but are often hamstrung by the highly reliable, repeatable processes of their management systems. Based on years of research, Grabbing Lightning shows how twelve companies have tried to develop a capability for sustainable...