Many organizations now source tasks from shared service units (SSUs). SSUs are dedicated
centers, focused on a particular business function, which delivers common and standardized …

The creation of new ventures and growing them into well-established organizations is the
key purpose of managing new ventures. This chapter explains the 10 most essential …

The thesis deals with innovation and entrepreneurship in China. Despite an institutional
environment characterized by high levels of uncertainty, innovation thrives even in the …

Outsourcing service providers are progressively being seen not just as efficient partners to
handle peripheral tasks, but also as potential sources of impactful innovations. However, as …

While many emerging technologies are making significant strides in the marketplace, others
are developing at a slower pace. Historical experience has shown that their success can …

We examine the relationship between firms' within-and across-inventor team composition
and firm-level innovation. An empirical regularity in the prior literature on inventor teams is …

A gap in Organization and Management Theory exists regarding how, as a relational
phenomenon, authority routinely makes a difference to the daily functioning of organization …

To identify the perspectives in the study of innovation from the management field seen in
recent literature (3-4 years). Review of publications with a high degree of impact (SCImago …

It is argued that the process of convergence innovation is a continuous disequilibrium
between reference technology and its matching technology, which adjusts optimal balance …

What factors determine which firms in an industry ally with each other? This paper analyses
a sample of 497 alliances, in ten countries, in the global pharmaceutical sector where …