Over the past 50 years, a substantial interest has been put to research on how innovation spreads within social networks over time (see Rogers, 1962, 2010). Our initial aim was to examine innovation diffusion in industrial networks. We operationalized the research through a case study of an...

The literature remains ambiguous on the impact of corporate-specific executive training programs on organizational performance. Instead of considering economic and learning performance, we study executive training programs as platforms that political coalitions can use to promote or block...