A useful theoretical lens for understanding innovation in the strategy and entrepreneurship
literatures is knowledge recombination. According to a recombination logic, innovations …

Understanding why some firms outperform others is central to strategy research. The
resource-based view (RBV) suggests that competitive advantages arise due to possessing …

This study focuses on the sectoral and geographical differences in open knowledge
collaboration for the innovation performance of UK firms. Drawing on transaction cost theory …

Public R&D subsidy is a commonly adopted policy instrument to promote firms' exploratory
innovation that encourages novel knowledge learning. Under the multi-level institutional …

Problemistic search theory, with its roots in the Carnegie School tradition, describes a
behaviorally plausible process by which firms learn from performance feedback. A firm's …

In steering toward the future, innovation managers are commonly advised to dismiss the old
and make way for the new. However, such “recency bias” may significantly limit a firm's …

In many industries, the traditional sources of competitive advantage tend to evaporate fairly
rapidly. Therefore, managers need to continually rethink and reformulate their firm …

Research Summary We integrate insights from upper echelon theory and the literature on
innovation and multinational corporations (MNCs) to develop a framework explaining when …

The dynamic capability view (DCV) is one of the most vibrant approaches to strategic
management. In this study, the extant literature published between 1994 and 2011 is …

A critical issue has been absent from the conversation on dynamic capabilities: the two
seminal papers represent not only different but contradictory understandings of the …