This is the introductory note to a special issue on the management of technology and innovation. It is not an exhaustive review of the vast literature to date, as this would be a difficult undertaking in itself, well beyond the scope of this introductory note. Instead, I limit myself here to...

The literature on help-giving behavior identifies individual-level factors that affect a help-giver’s decision to help another individual. Studying a context in which work was highly interdependent and helping was pervasive, however, we propose that this emphasis on the initial point of...