Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to focus on “how to create value from collaborative innovation,” which is a core question when companies plan open-innovation initiatives. China’s Huawei Technologies is taken as the main case study, with other companies’ practices as further...

Purpose – Many multi‐business companies apply one performance management approach to all their businesses despite differing needs. This study proposes a flexible approach to managing performance that allows for variation across businesses and over time. Design/methodology/approach – Based...

Managers need neither swallow whole an elaborate strategic planning system, nor be discouraged into total rejection. Many of the problems businesses experience with strategic planning can be traced to a mismatch of their planning system and their companies' structure. This article presents a...