Cover -- Guest editorial -- Openness and front end of innovation: does customer type matter? -- Industrial marketing research: a bibliometric analysis (1990-2015) -- Internationalization as process of value distribution through innovation: polyhedral diagnosis of a "born global" firm -- Openness...

Purpose: The changing nature of work dynamics demands that managers keep up-to-date in skills, knowledge, and competencies. Besides, nowadays these professionals need to understand the business beyond the frontiers of their own organizations. This phenomenon has led to new forms of alternative...

Purpose: Inter-organizational mentoring (IOM) is a human resource development tool that is used when the mentor and mentee belong to different organizations. As mentees are the focus of the IOM process, the success of this type of program is highly reliant on their characteristics. Therefore,...