Part 1, the companion paper to this paper (Hale and Borys, this issue) reviews the literature
from 1986 on the management of those safety rules and procedures which relate to the …

Purpose Scholarly interest in interorganizational learning (IOL) has spiked in the past
decade because of its potential to absorb, transfer and create valuable knowledge for …

abstract Many papers have been published recently in the fields of strategy and international
business research incorporating the role of organizational knowledge as a basis of firm …

This study discusses how and why cooperative interactions between competitors change as
their coopetitive relation develops over time. Such cooperative interactions are …

Are knowledge exchange and knowledge protection conflicting or complementary?
Although facilitating knowledge exchange and protecting core proprietary knowledge are …

Empirical research demonstrates backward, forward and collaborative linkages between
foreign subsidiaries and firms in host economies can have a major impact on the success of …

Little is known about learning processes in horizontal networks. This study focuses on
networks as learning entities, ie learning by multiple organizations as a group, and the …

Asymmetry issues between partners concern the complementarity of assets across firms
differing substantially in size, origin, experience, and objective, for which scholars highlight …

In this paper, we explore the relationship between aspects of firms' potential absorptive
capacity (PACAP) on their involvement in exploratory alliances. Our study is based on …

Organizational learning has been widely acknowledged as holding the key for companies to
survive and prosper and has, in recent years, gained currency in construction management …