Past research (along with our experience) suggests that a firm's supply chain (ie, value
chain) plays an integral role in its ability to not only reduce cost via process innovation, but …

The critical role of product innovation in sustaining competitive advantage in the
marketplace has long been acknowledged by both management scholars and practitioners …

Innovation is an integral part of every firm's ongoing operations. While new product and
service creation is an essential task to ensure a firm's immediate success in the marketplace …

Supply chain innovation (SCI) is a concept that has been increasingly invoked in practice as
well as academic circles in recent years. Extant research has proposed a model of SCI that …

Purpose–This paper aims to explore the extent to which four elements of the value chain–
marketing, research and development, procurement, and operations–are associated with …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use resource dependence theory to hypothesize
that a buyer's innovation strategy enhances supplier innovation focus and a buyer-supplier …

Although marketing scholars have emphasized both the importance of internal learning
mechanisms and of external learning through supply chain partners research findings on …

Innovation generation has increasingly been recognized as an outcome of interaction
between a firm and various outside entities. According to this view, supplier involvement and …

This study investigates how companies innovate in their business networks. We examine the
role of leveraging resources in the context of retail brand paints within the do-it-yourself …

As today's firms increasingly outsource their noncore activities, they not only have to
manage their own resources and capabilities, but they are ever more dependent on the …