Contemporary and future challenges when managing research involve coping with emerging prerequisites which include, among other things, a new knowledge production discourse, new research funding methods and new ways for international collaboration. Managers for boundary-spanning research...

This study describes a research methodology that evolved as a result of a longitudinal participative research effort at Ericsson. The study lasted six years and is built upon ten different, but interrelated research projects. The methodology developed was labeled table-tennis research to capture...