(VF)Cet article étudie les mécanismes de garantie mis en oeuvre par les membres d’un réseau d’alliances développant un projet d’innovation : garanties d’image, financières ou sur les actifs spécifiques. Nous tentons de combler un vide dans la littérature sur ces garanties, prises...

Purpose – The objective of this research is to identify and characterize the coordination systems used by SME hub firms that are in a situation of dependence with respect to other members of their network, taking into account the influence of hub firm size. Design/methodology/approach –...

Organizational innovation favors technological innovation, but does it also influence technological innovation persistence ? This article investigates empirically the pattern of technological innovation persistence and tests the potential impact of organizational innovation using firm-level data...

This paper explores the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and innovation from a firm strategic perspective. Matching Community Innovation Survey data with specific data collected about the CSR behaviour of Luxembourg firms, the authors identify two types of firms...

Le concept d'innovation ouverte connaît un succès grandissant. Toutefois, les risques sont nombreux et importants, notamment en ce qui concerne les difficultés de maîtrise et de valorisation des droits de propriété attachés à l'innovation collaborative. La littérature tend à montrer...

Research into organization theory contains abundant evidence of the positive effects of ambidexterity on a firm's performance, and of the influence of organizational context on ambidexterity. The present research tests whether organizational context affects innovation ambidexterity. Our results,...

Despite the vast literature on knowledge management, little research has addressed the specificities of knowledge integration at the cluster level. Moreover, the literature on clusters has not focused on the role that governance may play in knowledge management. Anchored in a knowledge-based...

Cet article explore la nature de la relation entre la Responsabilité Sociale des Entreprises (RSE) et l'innovation technologique, avec pour objectif d'identifier les éventuelles spécificités des Petites et Moyennes Entreprises (PME). En dépit de son importance, cette relation reste peu...

Research has shown that NPD project leaders should engage in boundary-spanning activities. The present study tested the impact of four boundary-spanning activities on NPD project performance and analyzed the antecedents of these activities. We hypothesized that NPD project leaders' abilities to...

We examine how small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) chief executive officers' (CEOs) social capital (as measured by strength of ties and structural holes) can help them bring business to their firms through the spread of positive referrals. Based on a sample of 408 French SME CEOs, we find a...