Patent management tasks involve many stakeholders from diverse disciplines and
hierarchies as well as from inside and outside the organization. By drawing on the …

This article critically reviews and synthesizes the contributions found in theoretical and
empirical studies of firm-level innovation search processes. It explores the advantages and …

To innovate, firms often need to draw from, and collaborate with, a large number of actors
from outside their organization. At the same time, firms need also to be focused on capturing …

Firms increasingly acquire technological knowledge from external sources to improve their
innovation performance. This strategic approach is known as inbound open innovation. The …

Drawing on the resource-based view of the firm, we examine the effect of technological
competition over a patent on the firm's choice of patenting strategy. We claim that …

This study seeks to understand the scarcely examined relationships between SMEs' foreign
technology licensing, R&D expenditure, innovation and export intensity. Espousing an …

The emergence of radical technologies presents a significant challenge to incumbent firms.
We study firms' management of radical technological change by separating their actions into …

Research Summary: We combine the absorptive capacity and social network theory
approaches to predict how intrafirm “whole” network characteristics affect the firm's speed of …

Several studies examine the successful globalization and technological development of
emerging-economy firms. However, few discuss why some other emerging-economy firms …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand if and how the adoption of an open
innovation (OI) strategy, that is acquiring externally developed knowledge, influences the …