Facilitates discussion about project-based organizations (PBOs) and how they increasingly pervade business dimensions, from R&D and new product development, to the production of complex capital goods and implementation of organizational change across very different industries such as management...

The last several years have witnessed a growing scholarly interest in project-based organizations. This interest mirrors the diffusion of this organizational form across a wide range of industries, well beyond those where organizations traditionally have been organized by projects. To date,...

In this paper we reflect on the contribution of our 1989 article Competitive Groups as Cognitive Communities: The Case of Scottish Knitwear Manufacturers. We begin by recalling our backgrounds and motivations as collaborators on the project, and then discuss recent developments in the Scottish...

This paper draws on the structural embeddedness perspective to conceptually address the following question: “What is the relation between firm growth and its structural position within a network of multirelational ties?” While the organizational approaches that have adhered to the structural...