8 research outputs found
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