Introduction Process Views on Inter-organizational Collaborations; Hans Berends and Jörg Sydow Part I. Relational Dynamics in Inter-organizational Collaboration Chapter 1. Relational Bonds Underlying Cooperative Inter-Organizational Relations in Different Societal Contexts; Peter Smith Ring and...

Frontmatter -- Zur "Managementforschung" -- Vorwort -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Führung als Schlüssel zur organisationalen Lernfähigkeit -- Arbeitsengagement aus freien Stücken: Zur Rolle der Führung -- Zur Entwicklung interpersonalen, intérorganisationalen und interkulturellen Vertrauens...

Purpose – In large companies, technological knowledge lies dispersed over individual specialists, business units and locations. Communities of practice (CoPs) are a structure for sharing this dispersed knowledge. However, CoPs are usually seen as being emergent, evolving and elusive. This...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse a firm’s internal and external drivers of formal and informal open innovation (OI) practices. To enrich the analysis and to obtain more robust results, the authors checked the study’s hypotheses using samples from two European regions,...

This article explains how and why organizational actors' decisions about interorganizational knowledge transfer might change over time. We find that organizational actors' framing of future innovation developments, as either an opportunity or a threat, motivates them to engage or disengage in...

Summary In this paper we explore the relational dimension of knowledge sharing behavior by proposing a comprehensive theoretical framework for studying knowledge sharing in organizations. This theoretical framework originates from (Fiske, 1991) and (Fiske, 1992) Relational Models Theory (RMT)....