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Attuning Signals in Scientific Crowdfunding: What Works and What Doesn’t? Open
Research on crowdfunding has extensively explored the characteristics that predict campaign success, predominantly focusing on crowdfunding for business and for charity. Other crowdfunding models have received less attention, and this over…
Reverse innovations bridging the gap between entrepreneurial orientation and international performance Open
Purpose This paper aims to elucidate the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation, reverse innovation and international performance of emerging economy multinational enterprises (EMNEs). Design/methodology/approach The authors anal…
Do top management team diversity and chief sustainability officer make firms greener? Moderating role of top management team behavioral integration Open
Achieving green innovation goals is a challenging task. Several scholars have tried to explore the important determinants of green innovation; however, this concept needs further exploration from the corporate governance perspective. Hence…
Deploying predictive analytics to enhance patient agility and patient value in hospitals: A position paper and research proposal Open
Patient value in hospital care has become increasingly important over the last decade. This paper argues that patient value could be ameliorated by investing in patient agility. Patient agility constitutes the capabilities that enable hosp…
Aligning Science-Based Partnerships: Attaining Jointly Beneficial Outcomes in Open Innovation Projects Open
Firms are increasingly using science-based partnerships to organize for open innovation. To attain outcomes like innovations and high-quality research, science-based partnerships usually consist of multiple short-term R&D; projects in whic…
The Impact of Breakthrough Innovations on the Export Performance of SMEs in Developing Countries: The Moderating Role of Institutional Factors Open
Although few studies examine the implications of breakthrough innovations in the exporting context, we have little understanding about how contingent factors in the developing countries shape the breakthrough innovations–export performance…
Ecosystem types: A systematic review on boundaries and goals Open
In the past few years, we have witnessed a reinvigorated interest by academics, practitioners and policymakers in the ecosystem concept. Recent reviews have set out to clarify the conceptual boundaries between ecosystem concepts. Yet there…
Open innovation and the adoption of environmental process innovations: information source and proximity to partner types Open
This research set out to understand the role of sources of information and the proximity of types of partners in the relationship between the firm’s use of open innovation practices and the adoption of environmental process innovations. We…
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The Transition of Dutch Social Housing Corporations to Sustainable Business Models for New Buildings and Retrofits Open
Social housing corporations play an important role in society as they provide affordable and good-quality housing for vulnerable citizens. Yet, the sector has to deal with the historical legacy of a high number of old and poorly insulated …
Ecosystems for smart cities: tracing the evolution of governance structures in a dutch smart city initiative Open
Smart cities use integrated information and communication technology in order to help their citizens and organizations deal with the challenges of urbanization, safety, and sustainability. Smart cities need complex forms of governance invo…
Substituting face-to-face contacts in academics’ collaborations: modern communication tools, proximity, and brokerage Open
Prior analyses of face-to-face contacts in collaborations have focused on one substitute only. Instead, we analyse various potential substitutes for face-to-face contacts in collaborations. Based on 45 interviews with academics from five l…
Personal and social proximity empowering collaborations: the glue of knowledge networks Open
The proximity framework serves to analyse and understand how collaborations form and develop over time, and how these affect innovation and learning. The framework has inspired and informed empirical studies in several contexts, contributi…
Moving up the ladder: heterogeneity influencing academic careers through research orientation, gender, and mentors Open
We look into the question whether heterogeneity stemming from research orientation, gender, or disciplinary and cultural differences with their PhD supervisors helps or hampers academics’ careers. Based on a sample of 248 academics at two …
Personal and related kinds of proximity driving collaborations: a multi-case study of Dutch nanotechnology researchers Open
Previous studies investigating proximity and collaboration have not clarified personal elements, such as working or communication style. Here, we show that personal proximity-close similarity in terms of personal traits and behavioral patt…