In this article we address a key tension in the literature. That is, whether the knowledge status of a tradition is largely preserved passively, under tradition’s own authority, or alternatively preserved through deliberate, individual interpretive acts. Through empirical research in three...

In the complex, usually problematic situation of interorganizational collaboration the need for managerial learning in the pursuit of collaborative advantage is high. Two particular characterizations of learning, in relation to interorganizational collaboration, are well described in the extant...

Leadership research so far has neglected clusters as a particular context for leadership, while research on networks and clusters has hardly studied leadership issues. This paper fills this dual gap in the abundant research on leadership on the one hand and on networks/clusters on the other by...

Within the OR community, an increasing emphasis is being placed on developing approaches to tackle complex, 'messy' decision problems. The work described in this paper arose out of the premise that it would be desirable to integrate ideas from a number of different approaches of this type....

This article is concerned with attitudes to learning in inter-organizational collaboration. Basic attitudes to learning evident in extant research -"selfish", "sharing" and "sidelined"- are compared with those observed through research-oriented action research. A conceptualization based on a...

Describes some of the good practices and some of the problems connected with inter‐organizational working, focusing on arrangements involving voluntary, community sector and public sector organizations. Discusses six themes raised by the groups. Identifies a number of implications for...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the forces which militate against building capacity for research in business and management that satisfies the double‐hurdle criteria of academic rigour and relevance to practice, despite strong pressures in favour of it....