Purpose – Companies engage in various relationships with external stakeholders to create attractive offerings. The purpose of this study is to describe the most common business collaboration concepts, and compare their characteristics. The concepts are evaluated in terms of their implications...

Purpose – This article endeavors to provide a potential framework for analysing knowledge transfer in CPD through social network analysis (SNA). Design/methodology/approach – The survey is used to describe how the supplier and buyer worked together to transfer knowledge for developing...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to introduce structures of strategic management of  technology as elements in a  conceptual framework. Design/methodology/approach: The approach of this study is abductive. The original framework is expanded and validated through inference to...

This paper is a literature review to compare selected dimensions of manufacturing, services and R&D sectors supply chains. Each supply chain is seen as a system which proper input should be proceed to gain appropriate output. Therefore, to study the supply chains, inputs, outputs and the...

Purpose – Emerging customer needs are calling for companies to quickly create new solutions in business front-end e.g. in sales situation. However, bypassing predefined product development processes and thus product definition turns to be problematic and leads later problems in product...