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Manuscript Type: Literature review. Research Question/Issue: Over the last four decades, research on the relationship between boards of directors and strategy has proliferated. Yet to date there is little theoretical and empirical agreement regarding the question of how boards of directors...
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This paper examines the transfer of designs between projects within firm in the context of made-to-order producing companies. This practice is also known as knowledge reuse. Past studies has provided a detailed account of the strategies and processes involved in the reuse of technologies....
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This chapter focuses on the gap between the speed of proliferation of theoretical and empirical contributions and the speed of accumulation of the acquired scientific knowledge regarding absorptive capacity. To contribute to narrowing this gap, we will in particular review the conceptual...
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Many product innovation studies have described key determinants that should lead to successful incremental product … innovation. Despite numerous studies suggesting how incremental product innovation should be successfully undertaken, many firms … still struggle with this type of innovation. In this paper, we use an institutional perspective to investigate why …
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competitiveness) moderate the effectiveness of exploratory and exploitative innovation. Results indicate that centralization … negatively affects exploratory innovation while formalization positively influences exploitative innovation. Interestingly …, connectedness within units appears to be an important antecedent of both exploratory and exploitative innovation. Furthermore, our …
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In this conceptual paper we investigate how corporate venturing influences an organization’s competences. The impact of various types of corporate ventures on the portfolio of strategic options of a firm’s competence modes (Sanchez, 2004a; Sanchez and Heene, 2002) will be assessed by...
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In this essay, we challenge the present dominant emphasis in the Dutch Innovation Debate on the creation of … managerial capabilities and organizing principles for innovation should have a higher priority on the Dutch Innovation Agenda …. Managerial capabilities for innovation deal with cognitive elements such as the capacity to absorb knowledge, create …
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Managing through projects has become important for generating new knowledge to cope with technological and market discontinuities. This paper examines how the fit between the creation of technological and market knowledge and important project management characteristics, i.e. project autonomy...
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