Transformation networks in innovation alliances - The development of Volvo C70

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 745-773

  Harryson, Sigvald J ^a,b   Dudkowski, Rafal ^c   Stern, Alexander ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT   (Sweden)

^b Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^c Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 43049147318     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2008.00768.x     Document Type: Article

References (94)

1. Abraham, S. (2005 Stretching strategic thinking Strategy & Leadership, 33, 5 11.
2. Ahuja, G. (2000 Collaboration networks, structural holes, and innovation: a longitudinal study Administrative Science Quarterly, 45, 425 55.
3. Allen, T. J. (1977). Managing the Flow of Technology. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press.
4. Allen, T. J. Cohen, S. I. (1969 Information flow in research and development laboratories Administrative Science Quarterly, 14, 12 19.
5. Altshuler, L. Stern, A. (2006). Emerging Forms of Collaboration in the Context of Networked Innovation - An Exploration of New Product Development in Complex Technology Industries. Unpublished Masters Thesis at the Baltic Business School of Sweden. Tutor : Sigvald Harryson.
6. Alvesson, M. Sköldberg, K. (1994). Tolkning och Reflektion. Lund : Studentlitteratur.
7. Argote, L. Ingram, P. (2000 Knowledge transfer: a basis for competitive advantage in firms Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 82, 150 69.
8. Badaracco, J. (1991). The Knowledge Link: How Firms Compete Through Strategic Alliances. Boston, MA : Harvard Business School Press.
9. Benner, M. J. Tushman, M. L. (2003 Exploitation, exploration, and process management: the productivity dilemma revisited Academy of Management Review, 28, 238 56.
10. Berthon, P., Hulbert, J. M. Pitt, L. F. (1999 To serve or create? Strategic orientations toward customers and innovation California Management Review, 42, 37 58.
11. Brockhoff, K. (2003 Customers' perspectives of involvement in new product development International Journal of Technology Management, 26, 464 81.
12. Brown, J. S. Duguid, P. (2000). The Social Life of Information. Boston, MA : Harvard Business School Press.
13. Brusoni, S. Prencipe, A. (2001 Managing knowledge in loosely coupled networks: exploring the links between product and knowledge dynamics Journal of Management Studies, 38, 1019 35.
14. Burt, R. S. (1992 The social structure of competition In Nohria, N. Eccles, R. G. (Eds Networks and Organizations. Boston, MA : Harvard Business School Press.
15. Burt, R. S. (1993 The social structure of competition In Swedberg, R. (Ed Exploration in Economic Sociology. New York : Russell Sage Foundation.
16. Carlile, P. L. (2003). Transferring, Translating and Transforming: An Integrative Relational Approach to Sharing and Assessing Knowledge across Boundaries. 3rd Annual MIT/UCI Knowledge and Organizations Conference, Laguna Beach, CA.
17. Chesbrough, H. W. (2003 The era of open innovation MIT Sloan Management Review, 44, 35 41.
18. Cohen, W. M. Levinthal, D. A. (1990 Absorptive capacity: a new perspective on learning and innovation Administrative Science Quarterly, 35, 128 52.
19. Coleman, J. S. (1988 Social capital in the creation of human capital American Journal of Sociology, 94, 95 120.
20. Contractor, F. Lorange, P. (1988 Why should firms co-operate? The strategy and economics basis for co-operative ventures In Contractor, F. Lorange, P. (Eds Cooperative Strategies in International Business. Lexington, MA : D.C. Heath.
21. Crossan, M., Lane, H. W. White, R. E. (1999 An organizational learning framework: from intuition to institution The Academy of Management Review, 24, 522 37.
22. Davenport, T. H. Prusak, L. (1998). Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know. Boston, MA : Harvard Business School Press.
23. Dolan, R. J. Matthews, J. M. (1993 Maximizing the utility of customer product testing: beta test design and management Journal of Product Innovation Management, 10, 318 30.
24. Dubois, A. Gadde, L.-E. (2002 Systematic combining: an abductive approach to case research Journal of Business Research, 55, 553 60.
25. Duncan, R. B. (1976 The ambidextrous organization: designing dual structures for innovation In Kilman, R. H., Pondy, L. R. Slevin, D. (Eds The Management of Organization. New York : North-Holland, 167 88.
26. Easterby-Smith, M., Crossan, M. Nicolini, D. (2000 Organizational learning: debates past, present and future Journal of Management Studies, 37, 783 96.
27. Geisler, E. (2007 A typology of knowledge management: strategic groups and role behavior in organizations Journal of Knowledge Management, 11, 84 96.
28. Gooderham, P. S. Ulset, S. (2002 Beyond the M-form: towards a critical test of the new form International Journal of the Economics of Business, 9, 117 38.
29. Granovetter, M. S. (1973 The strength of weak ties American Journal of Sociology, 78, 1360 80.
30. Granovetter, M. S. (1985 Economic action and social structure: the problem of embeddedness American Journal of Sociology, 91, 481 510.
31. Grant, R. Baden-Fuller, C. (2004 A knowledge accessing theory of strategic alliances Journal of Management Studies, 41, 61 83.
32. Gulati, R. (1999 Network location and learning: the influence of network resources and firm capabilities on alliance formation Strategic Management Journal, 20, 397 420.
33. Hagedoorn, J. Schakenraad, J. (1994 The effects of strategic technology alliances on corporate performance Strategic Management Journal, 15, 291 310.
34. Hansen, M. T. (1999 The search-transfer problem: the role of weak ties in sharing knowledge across organizational sub-units Administrative Science Quarterly, 44, 82 111.
35. Hardy, C., Phillips, N. Lawrence, T. B. (2003 Resources, knowledge and influence: the organizational effects of interorganizational collaboration Journal of Management Studies, 40, 321 47.
36. Harryson, S. (1997 From experience: how Canon and Sony drive product innovation through networking and application-focused R&D Journal of Product Innovation Management, 14, 288.
37. Harryson, S. (1998). Japanese Technology and Innovation Management: From Know-How to Know-Who. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar.
38. Harryson, S. (2002). Managing Know-Who Based Companies: A Multinetworked Approach to Knowledge and Innovation Management. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar.
39. Harryson, S. (2006). Know-who Based Entrepreneurship. From Knowledge Creation to Business Implementation. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar.
40. Harryson, S. Lorange, P. (2005 Bringing the college inside Harvard Business Review, 83, 30 2.
41. Harryson, S., Kliknaite, S. Dudkowski, R. (2008 Making innovative use of academic knowledge to enhance corporate technology innovation impact International Journal of Technology Management, 41, 109 37.
42. He, Z-L. Wong, P-K. (2004 Exploration vs. exploitation: an empirical test of the ambidexterity hypothesis Organization Science, 15, 481 94.
43. Hedlund, G. (1992). A Model of Knowledge Management and the Global N-Form Corporation. Research Paper RP 92/10, Stockholm School of Economics.
44. Hedlund, G. (1994). The Future of the Global Firm. Research Paper RP 94/8, Stockholm School of Economics.
45. Hedlund, G. (1995). The Intensity and Extensity of Knowledge: Implications for Possible Futures of the Global Firm. Research Paper RP 95/6, Stockholm School of Economics.
46. Hellström, T. Malmquist, U. (2000 Networked innovation: developing the AXE110 "mini-exchange" at Ericsson European Journal of Innovation Management, 3, 181 9.
47. Hobday, M., Davies, A. Prencipe, A. (2005 Systems integration: a core capability of the modern corporation Industrial and Corporate Change, 14, 1109 43.
48. Inkpen, A. C. (2000 Learning through joint ventures: a framework on knowledge acquisition Journal of Management Studies, 37, 1019 43.
49. Inkpen, A. C. Pien, W. (2006 An examination of collaboration and knowledge transfer: China-Singapore Suzhou industrial park Journal of Management Studies, 43, 779 811.
50. Jack, S. L. (2005 The role, use and activation of strong and weak network ties: a qualitative analysis Journal of Management Studies, 42, 1233 59.
51. Kline, J., Edge, G. Kass, T. (1991 Skill-based competition Journal of General Management, 16, 1 15.
52. Kogut B. Zander, U. (1992 Knowledge of the firm, combinative capabilities and the replication of technology Organization Science, 3, 383 97.
53. Lane, P. J. Lubatkin, M. (1998 Relative absorptive capacity and interorganizational learning Strategic Management Journal, 21, 405 25.
54. Leonard-Barton, D. (1992 Core capabilities and core rigidities: a paradox in managing new product development Strategic Management Journal, 13, 111 25.
55. Leonard-Barton, D. (1995). Wellsprings of Knowledge: Building and Sustaining the Sources of Innovation. Boston, MA : Harvard Business School Press.
56. Levitt, B. March, J. G. (1988 Organizational learning Annual Review of Sociology, 14, 319 40.
57. Lorange, P. (1996 Developing learning partnerships The Learning Organization, 3, 11 19.
58. Lüthje, C. Herstatt, C. (2004 The lead user method: an outline of empirical findings and issues for future research R&D Management, 34, 553 68.
59. March, J. (1999). The Pursuit of Organizational Intelligence. Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers.
60. Martin, X. Salomon, R. (2003 Tacitness, learning and international expansion: a study of foreign direct investment in a knowledge-intensive industry Organizational Science, 14, 297 351.
61. McGill, M. Slocum, J. (1993 Unlearning the organization Organizational Dynamics, Autumn, 67 79.
62. Murphy, S. A. Kumar, V. (1997 The front end of new product development: a Canadian survey R&D Management, 27, 5 15.
63. Nelson, R. Winter, S. (1982). An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press.
64. Nonaka, I. (1990 Redundant, overlapping organization: a Japanese approach to managing the innovation process California Management Review, Spring, 27 38.
65. Nyström, H. (1990). Technological and Market Innovation Strategies for Product and Company Development. Chichester : Wiley.
66. Pisano, G. P. (1990 The R&D boundaries of the firm: an empirical analysis Administrative Science Quarterly, 35, 153 76.
67. Pisano, G. P. (1991 The governance of innovation: vertical integration and collaborative arrangements in the biotechnology industry Research Policy, 20, 237 49.
68. Polanyi, M. (1966). The Tacit Dimension. New York : Anchor Day Books.
69. Powell, W. W. Grodal, S. (2005 Networks of innovators In Fagerberg, J., Mowery D. C. Nelson, R. R. (Eds The Oxford Handbook of Innovation. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 56 85.
70. Powell, W. W., Koput, K. W. Smith-Doerr, L. (1996 Interorganizational collaboration and the locus of innovation: networks of learning in biotechnology Administrative Science Quarterly, 41, 116 45.
71. Roberts, J. (2002 From know-how to show-how? Questioning the role of information and communication technologies in knowledge transfer Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 12, 429 43.
72. Rowley, T., Berens, D. Krackhardt, D. (2000 Redundant governance structures: an analysis of structural and relational embeddedness in the steel and semiconductor industries Strategic Management Journal, 21, 369 86.
73. Salford, M. (1995 Challenging the world of innovation Journal of New Entry, 6, 14 19.
74. Sawhney, M. (2002 Managing business innovation: an advanced business analysis Journal of Interactive Marketing, 16, 24 36.
75. Shenkar, O. Li, J. (1999 Knowledge search in international cooperative ventures Organization Science, 10, 134 43.
76. Sidhu, J. S., Volberda, H. Commandeur, H. R. (2004 Exploring exploration orientation and its determinants: some empirical evidence Journal of Management Studies, 41, 913 32.
77. Simonin, B. L. (1999 Ambiguity and the process of knowledge transfer in strategic alliances Strategic Management Journal, 20, 595 623.
78. Soda, G., Usai, A. Zaheer, A. (2004 Network memory: the influence of past and current networks on performance Academy of Management Journal, 47, 893 906.
79. Szulanski, G. (1996 Exploring internal stickiness: impediments to the transfer of best practice within the firm Strategic Management Journal, 17, 27 43.
80. Szulanski, G. (2000 The process of knowledge transfer: a diachronic analysis of stickiness Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 82, 9 27.
81. Szulanski, G. Cappetta, R. (2003 Stickiness: conceptualizing, measuring, and predicting difficulties in the transfer of knowledge within organizations In Easterby-Smith, M. Lyles, M. A. (Eds Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management. Oxford : Blackwell, 513 34.
82. Teece, D. (1986 Profiting from technological innovation: implications for integration, collaboration, licensing and public policy Research Policy, 15, 285 305.
83. Teece, D. (2001 Strategies for managing knowledge assets: the role of firm structure and industrial context In Nonaka, I. Teece, D. (Eds Managing Industrial Knowledge. Creation, Transfer and Utilization. London : Sage, 125 44.
84. Tushman, M. L. Katz, R. (1980 External communication and project performance - an investigation into the role of gatekeepers Management Science, 26, 1071 85.
85. Tushman, M. L. O'Reilly, C. (1996 Ambidextrous organizations: managing evolutionary and revolutionary change California Management Review, 38, 8 30.
86. Ulwick, A. W. (2002 Turn customer input into innovation Harvard Business Review, 80, 91 7.
87. Uzzi, B. (1996 The sources and consequences of embeddedness for the economic performance of organizations: the network effect American Sociological Review, 61, 674 98.
88. Van Wijk, R., Van den Bosch F. A. J. Volberda, H. W. (2004 Knowledge and networks In Easterby-Smith, M. Lyles, M. A. (Eds Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management. Oxford : Blackwell, 428 53.
89. Verdu-Jover, A., Lloerns-Montes, J. Garcia-Morales, V. J. (2005 Flexibility, fit and innovative capacity: an empirical examination International Journal of Technology Management, 30, 131 46.
90. Von Hippel, E. (1988). The Sources of Innovation. New York, Oxford : Oxford University Press.
91. Walker, G., Kogut, B. Shan, W. (1997 Social capital, structural holes and the formation of an industry network Organization Science, 8, 109 25.
92. Wang, P., Tong, T. W. Koh, C. P. (2004 An integrated model of knowledge transfer from MNC parent to China subsidiary Journal of World Business, 39, 168 82.
93. Wenger, E. (1998). Communities of Practice. Learning, Meaning, and Identity. New York : Cambridge University Press.
94. Yin, R. (2003). Case Study Research: Design and Methods. London : Sage.