This volume brings together empirical and conceptual papers that investigate the challenges of organizing creativity in the innovation journey in and across different empirical contexts. The articles in this volume extend our understanding of the contextualized social dynamics of organizing...

This paper aims to further our emerging knowledge on the external linkages of regional clusters. We adopt a network governance perspective and study connected clusters as goal-directed, multilevel whole networks that we denote as “cluster networks.” Based on an analysis of four empirical...

This chapter advances our understanding of collaborative innovation processes that span across organizational boundaries by providing an ethnographic account of idea generation dynamics in a member-initiated online songwriting community. Applying a science and technology studies perspective on...

"A case-based text on the management of inter-organizational relations and networks for advanced undergraduate/postgraduate students. It illustrates the various facets of network management in different contexts and embeds the cases in a succinct presentation of important theoretical debates...

Biographical note: Bastian Lange (Dr. phil.) ist Mitglied des Georg-Simmel-Zentrums für Metropolenforschung der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und leitet das Forschungs- und Beratungsbüro Multiplicities, Berlin. Hans-Joachim Bürkner (Dr. phil.) ist Professor für Wirtschafts- und...

This article examines the impact of management attitudes towards human resource management (HRM) practices on the presence of works councils in German small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Based on a survey among executives of German SMEs, the key result of a logit regression analysis is...

This paper analyses the dynamics of disassembly and reassembly unfolding in selected creative industries through the advent of digital technology. It argues that a full understanding of the much-observed organizational or sectoral lock-in effects on the one hand, and the possibilities for...

This paper analyses the dynamics of disassembly and reassembly unfolding in selected creative industries through the advent of digital technology. It argues that a full understanding of the much-observed organizational or sectoral lock-in effects on the one hand, and the possibilities for...