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innovation. It employs an analysis of three types of embedding: institutional embedding, which is often localized, structural …. It employs results from earlier research in organizational learning and innovation, and in the management of inter …
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This article connects theory of learning with theory of governance, in the context of inter-firm relations. It recognizes fundamental criticism of transaction cost economics (TCE), but preserves elements from that theory. Two kinds of relational risk are identified: hold-up and spillover risk....
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In an attempt at a systematic theory of entrepreneurship, this paper connects various literatures, from economics and business. In economics, there are many notions of entrepreneurship, some of which seem to contradict each other. For example, there are notions of entrepreneurship as an...
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Increasingly, it has been recognised that in their process of internationalisation multinationals may learn. They may take a strategy not only of exploitation, to leverage existing assets, competencies and products, built up in their home countries, but also, and perhaps even primarily, of...
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, innovation and change in organisations and, related to that: - the management of inter-organisational relations, alliances …
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In the midst of the turbulence wrought by the global economy, it has become common to see projects as an essential medium for achieving change. However, project based learning practices - as a subset of organizational learning practices- have not kept pace with this development. To explore this...
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This paper analyses how organizational routines change. It focuses on the level of learning groups within organizations. The paper starts with a summary of the 'activity theory' of knowledge used. Next, the notion of scripts is used, to analyse organizational groups as 'systems of distributed...
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Innovation is an important area of management theory, but there is a paucity of research on innovation in project based … current managerial challenges. In this paper we research innovation in twenty project based firms. We identify three key areas … of innovation from the theoretical literature and conduct empirical research, discovering (1) whether project based firms …
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Services form an important part of the economy today. Innovation for service firms is as important as for manufacturing …, but the innovation process for service firms is comparatively little studied. In this paper, I review the literature there … is on the innovation process for service firms, and make two suggestions for formalizing that process. The common thought …
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interfirm agreements between pharmaceutical companies and biotech companies, as well as on interfirm agreements in ICT …
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