Firms of all sizes increasingly face the need to participate in global innovation cooperation. Yet, the global dimension adds another layer of complexity to open innovation processes. Juliane Hartig develops a framework for different forms of distance and discusses their impact and partial...

Introduction -- Network organizations: theoretical assumptions of functioning and management of inter-firm cooperation -- Management of alliance network at the formation stage -- Management of alliance network at the functionality stage -- Management of alliance network at the post-operational...

1.Introduction -- 1.1 Preface -- 1.2 Research Problem -- 1.3 Research Objective -- 1.4 Structure of the Book -- 1.5 From KM to CRM: 'PKMA', '5-Step CDLS', 'CRI-C' and 'SIS' -- 2. Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises -- 2.1 Preface -- 2.2 Nature and Importance of SMEs in Europe -- 2.3 SMEs in...

Why do some organizations learn at faster rates than others? Why do organizations "forget"? Could productivity gains acquired in one part of an organization be transferred to another? These are among the questions addressed in Organizational Learning: Creating, Retaining and Transferring...

Interorganisationales Lernen -- Unternehmensberatung als Untersuchungsgegenstand -- Von lokalen Rationalitäten zu interorganisationalen Kommunikationsbarrieren in Beratungsprojekten -- Herleitung der Fragestellungen der Untersuchung -- Methodik der empirischen Untersuchung -- Ergebnisse der...