Opportunity Creation in Innovation Networks: Interactive Revealing Practices

Innovating in networks with partners that have diverse knowledge is challenging. The challenges stem from the fact that the commonly used knowledge protection mechanisms often are neither available nor suitable in early stage exploratory collaborations. This article focuses on how company participants in heterogeneous industry networks share private knowledge while protecting firm-specific appropriation. We go beyond the prevailing strategic choice perspectives to discuss interactive revealing practices that sustain joint opportunity creation in the fragile phase of early network formation.Center for Business, Technology and La

Managing Global Competition: Japanese Companies in Transition

Much has been wntten about the discontnuities takmg place in the post industnal society (Galbrath (1967), Marcuse (1968). Bell (1973), Toffler (1980), Huber (1984), Reich (199l), Lewm and Stephens (1993), and Ilinitch, Lewin, and D'Aveni, (1998)) which are forcing multinational companies and heretofore pnmarily domestic companies in every country and in almost every business sector to re-examine their management philosophies, strategies and organization designs In contrast to searching for a single theory of internationalization or for "the" theory of organizing for global compehhon, this paper focuses on the sources of vanation as a way of understanding the firm specific paths of companies' internahonalizahon and their organlzabon forms The paper extends the concept of equifinality (Katz and Kahn (1978), Doty, Glick, and Huber (1993). and Gresov and Drazin (1997)) for compehng in global environment and as a basis for understandmg why and how companies evolve unlque configurations of strategies and organizahon forms. The paper applies this framework to a discussion of Japanese companies

International development cooperation and innovation promotion: a discussion paper for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Finland

In commissioning this study on innovation and development cooperation, the Department of International Development Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland has made an important contribution to the ongoing discussion of the role, nature and opportunities that innovation could have in enhancing the current practice and instruments of international development cooperation

Patterns of strategy innovation

The authors examine nearly 200 corporate strategies which promised innovation at the level of the business model, and which were successful. They distill ten essential 'innovation themes' which provide basic elements for a fresh perspective on strategy. In particular, the themes can be used in two ways to devise a business strategy. Corporate examples are given of each innovation theme.Strategy innovation Management theories Strategy paradigms Innovation themes