Although firms increasingly rely on interfirm collaboration to explore new technological opportunities, few studies have examined the ways in which this collaboration form is governed. In this paper, we attempt to increase our understanding of governing explorative R&D alliances. First, we argue...

The asymptotic behaviour of self-avoiding walks that do not lie on a lattice has been investigated by a Monte-Carlo procedure. Its dependence on the fine structure of the walk is discussed.

In dit artikel bestuderen we het verloop van de loopbanen van globale managers. Tot op heden werd er weinig empirisch onderzoek uitgevoerd naar globale managers en hun loopbaanpaden. Vanuit de persoonlijke visie van globale managers tracht dit artikel een empirische bijdrage te leveren aan dit...

The following sections are included: <ul><li class="bullet">Introduction</li></ul> <ul><li class="bullet">Literature Review <ul><li class="bullet"> Closed versus open innovation</li><li class="bullet"> Empirical research on open innovation: A state-of-the-art</li><li class="bullet"> Need for a dynamic perspective on open innovation</li></ul> <p></li></ul> <ul><li class="bullet">Methodology <ul><li class="bullet"> Data</li><li class="bullet"> Variables <ul><li class="bullet"> Reliance on external and internal information sources</li><li class="bullet">...</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></p>

Combining both interview data and empirical analyses at the patent and firm levels, we explore the value-appropriation and value-creation implications of R&D collaboration resulting in the co-ownership of intellectual property (i.e. co-patents). We make an explicit distinction between three...

We assess the impact of R&D manpower diversity on firms’ technological performance. Relying on insights from two theoretical perspectives on team diversity (i.e. social categorization perspective and information decision-making perspective), we hypothesize that both demographic and...

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a more dynamic perspective on open innovation by conducting a longitudinal analysis of the adoption of open innovation strategies. In order to do so, we rely on three comparable waves of the Dutch Community Innovation Survey, which were conducted in...

Attempts to explore empirically the link between HRM and firm performance are numerous. Yet, research on this link remains restricted to large companies. Little is known about the extent to which the existing results extend to small businesses. The purpose of the present study is to develop and...