Part one. Theoretical approaches to cultural proximity -- Social capital theory and its application in innovation studies: a theoretical primer -- Cultural dimensions, social axioms, and cognitive proximity -- Entrepreneurship and cultural proximity -- Part two. Applications -- Proximity outside...

Networks have been hailed as a third organizational form, between markets and hierarchies. One of the main characteristics of networks is the coexistence of different kinds of relationships, personal and professional among these. The presence of multiple types of relationships modifies...

Offshoring of intangibles is a global production strategy based on the decision to externalize intangible activities to foreign countries. In the present work we test the existence of a positive relationship between offshoring intangibles and firm performance. To reap the full benefit of...

This paper investigates the way that firms' environmental context and organizational structure influence their strategic choices and lead to different capabilities configurations. Drawing on contingency theory and the resource-based view, we explore integrated solutions—an emerging business...

Part one. Theoretical approaches to cultural proximity -- Social capital theory and its application in innovation studies: a theoretical primer -- Cultural dimensions, social axioms, and cognitive proximity -- Entrepreneurship and cultural proximity -- Part two. Applications -- Proximity outside...

Notwithstanding their many environmental, economic and social advantages, renewable energy technologies (RE) account for a small fraction of the world's primary energy supply. One possible cause for this limited diffusion is that private investments in the RE sector, although potentially...

This paper contributes to the literature on enterprise resource planning (ERP) by pursuing two objectives. First, it identifies configurations of ERP adopters that have similar needs and develop similar competencies. Second, it tests the hypothesis that, to maximize benefits from their ERP...