Innovation networks can often be viewed as loosely coupled systems of autonomous firms.
We propose that hub firms orchestrate network activities to ensure the creation and …

Research on innovation networks has highlighted the pivotal role that actors with more
prominence and power, such as hub firms, may play in orchestrating the activities of other …

Executive Overview Companies have increasingly shifted from innovation initiatives that are
centered on internal resources to those that are centered on external networks (said another …

This conceptual paper organizes and advances existing knowledge on the management
practices of inter-organizational innovation networks by developing an orchestration profile …

Our networks—and how we work them—create vital ties that bind. Organizations recognize
and reward this fact by leaning ever more heavily on collaboration, particularly when it …

The goal of this article is to assess the state of scholarly research on the role of networks in
the innovation process. It begins with a review of the factors that have triggered the …

Research linking interorganizational networks to innovation has focused on spanning
structural boundaries as a means of knowledge recombination. Increasingly, firms also …

Warns that although technology and innovation are often the keydrivers in the formation of
business partnerships and networks, reflecting the parallel relationship between the …

In this study, attention is turned to those actors who orchestrate innovation networks; their
types, roles and capabilities. We assert that the type of orchestrator and what they (can) do …

abstract This paper addresses an important gap in the literature intersection between
network theory and networked innovation by developing a theoretical framework on how to …