Converging industries are characterized by the blurring of boundaries between technologies, markets and industry sectors. As such they can enable firms to access new markets or threaten them with an array of new competitors and a lack of knowledge. This makes an early identification of...

Crowdsourcing as a tool for idea generation has become popular for companies in the last few years. The aim of this research is to identify innovative behaviour types in an intra-organisational online ideation contest. Based on a survey with 75 employees of a specialty chemicals company, we...

Today’s society is often claimed to be the “knowledge society”. Knowledge transfer plays a pivotal role in the whole economic system, influencing innovation management in its very core. This study deals with one of the barriers that might hamper knowledge transfer: The Not-Invented-Here...

Recent research has established log-periodic power law (LPPL) patterns prior to the detonation of the German stock index (DAX) bubble in 1998. The purpose of this article is to explore whether a Langevin equation extracted from real world data can generate synthetic time series with comparable...

Hydrogen holds a prominent role as renewable energy carrier of the future due to its high gravimetric energy density. However, the most urgent technological challenge—especially concerning mobile applications in fuel cell vehicles—is the development of appropriate hydrogen storage options....

Corporate venture capital - the path to successfully developing new technologies? The changes brought about by the new technologies of the New Economy present both opportunities and threats for established companies and startups. There are various different concepts and forms of venture capital,...

In this paper I examine the possibility of discovering different types of strategic changes, accordingly accompanied by different manners of corporate performance development. To characterize individual strategic changes, I perform a detailed analysis of the credit files of corporations. The...

This study argues that an evaluation of the relationship between CEO turnover and corporate performance can be usefully approached in three steps. (1) An empirical longitudinal analysis of 88 German corporations which had experienced a change in CEO shows that different kinds of CEO turnover are...

This paper presents the results from an empirical survey of chemical suppliers, which examines the influence of customer relationship functions on supplier involvement in customer new product development (NPD) from the supplier's perspective. Using multiple regression analysis, we can...

This qualitative study investigates different perceptions of knowledge sharing in a cross-cultural research collaboration between German and Chinese scientists. Special emphasis is placed on the in-group and out-group orientation of partners, different communication styles and personal and...