We investigate how the research standing of universities informs academic researchers’ engagement with industry via collaborative research, contract research and consulting. We argue that the establishment of university-industry relationships is informed by three factors: faculty perceived...

Commentators suggest that to survive in developed economies manufacturing firms have to move up the value chain, innovating and creating ever more sophisticated products and services, so they do not have to compete on the basis of cost. While this strategy is proving increasingly popular with...

Despite its importance as a potential source of variation within industries, little is currently known about the antecedents of new business ideas in large, established firms. While a number of organization and management literatures address, tangentially, issues pertaining to this topic, none...

This paper aims at contributing to the existing literatures on multinational management, technological search and open innovation by providing a detailed account of the process through which large multinational corporations (MNCs) use technology scouting units to systematically search for new...

The research question addressed here is: How does the nature of local embeddedness of network relationships influence new venture internationalization? We distinguish between ties’ spatial embeddedness as dispersed or concentrated. We explore local bridging tie embeddedness’ differential...

Many critics of free-market liberalism argue that higher product-market competition and the “Anglo-Saxon” management practices it stimulates increases productivity only at the expense of employees’ work-life balance (WLB). The empirical basis of these claims is unclear. To address this...

This paper seeks to deepen the research on middle managers’ strategic sensemaking roles. Until now, little research has explored how middle managers use their practical knowledge to realize their sensemaking role during strategic change in their daily activities. Here, through vignettes drawn...

Given the increasingly popularity of strategy workshops within organizations, it is surprising that there are few accounts of this phenomenon. This paper addresses this issue through two in-depth case studies of organizations employing strategy workshops for strategic reviews. The paper builds...

This paper builds on Granovetter’s distinction between strong and weak ties and responds to recent calls for a more dynamic, processual and thus comprehensive understanding of knowledge transfer in networks with regard to both the nature of the ties that link firms to novel sources of...

The aim of this exploratory study was to examine how boundary objects are produced and the role ofpower in this process. To do so, we investigated the use of boundary objects by managers to developa customer oriented culture in a newly formed telecommunications company. The boundary object...