This study systematically reviews 200 articles published over the past three decades to
reveal how appropriability and appropriation have been explained and how those …

Digital transformation revolutionises the way people work not only in office settings but also
in physical work settings such as manufacturing or construction. New ways of combining …

The emergent business model literature, revolving mainly around the mechanisms through
which new business models create and deliver value, has left the value capture challenge …

We uncover a “paradox of formal appropriability mechanisms” in the case of knowledge-
intensive business services (KIBS) firms. Despite evidence that KIBS firms do not typically …

Over the past 25 years, the technology strategy literature has examined how four primary
mechanisms—patents, secrecy, lead time, and complementary assets—influence whether …

Factor and cluster analysis are used to identify different methods that public sector agencies
in Europe use to innovate, based on data from a 2010 survey of 3273 agencies. The …

Drawing upon data from the fifth UK Innovation Survey, this article sheds light on how
management choices on the nature of appropriation relate to management choices on the …

What appropriation strategies are chosen by innovative small firms? A cluster analysis of
data from the German CIS was carried out to indentify four distinct modes of appropriability …

There is to date abundant evidence about the way openness-performance liaisons are
shaped, yet parallel streams of research point towards an intricate relationship between …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to investigate pertinent knowledge protection
literature. At the same time, however, knowledge protection is often a neglected or …