Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing: Volume 30 Issue 3/4

Actors’ heterogeneity and the context of interaction in affecting innovation networks

– The aim of this paper is to explore the role of actors’ heterogeneity and the context of interaction on collective innovation.

Goal diversity and resource development in an inter-organisational project

– This paper aims to discuss the role of goal diversity for resource development organized in an inter-organizational project.

Actors’ roles in interaction and innovation in local systems: a conceptual taxonomy

This paper aims to study the role of the focal firm in local communities. In particular, it aims at analyzing such firms’ contribution to innovation, proposing a classification of…

Is this network for you or for me? The pursuit of self and collective interests in a strategic network

This paper aims to contribute by providing a more comprehensive understanding of the inter-relatedness of business goals among firms in strategic networks by exploring the…

Divergent goals in supplier-customer co-development process: an integrated framework

Innovations in business-to-business markets often result from co-development activities between multiple actors, all of which have their own goals for the collaboration. The…

Innovative and networked business functions: customer-driven procurement

This paper aims to highlight the evolving and articulated role of purchasing as a “mediator” between the company’s customers and suppliers, thus showing the opportunities…

The relationship between organizational characteristics and membership of a biotechnology industry board-of-directors-network

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between organizational characteristics and presence in a board-of-directors (BoD)-network, in the context of the…

Business networks along innovation life cycle

This paper aims to investigate how the relationships among the different actors within the business networks affect the evolution of innovation along the different steps of…

Innovation network trajectories: the role of time and history

This article aims to describe patterns of change in innovation networks and to clarify the roles of time and history in shaping network trajectories. The authors test seven…

Interorganizational network and innovation: a bibliometric study and proposed research agenda

This paper aims to explore the latent structure of the literature on interorganizational network and innovation as well as to map the main themes and empirical advances in this…

Understanding solutions as technology-driven business innovations

This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the innovation challenges firms face when developing and commercialising solutions in the capital goods sector; challenges…

Heuristics-in-use in industrial interfirm-collaborating clusters

The purpose of this paper is to help interfirm-collaborating cluster (ICC) executives examine the relevance of alternative decision rules in practical business contexts…

Contracts, relationships and innovation in business-to-business exchanges

This paper aims to contrast two approaches to the study of contracts in business and industrial marketing: first, as a legal document in shaping at the outset exchanges and…

Drivers of institutional innovation in networks: unleashing the innovation potential of domesticated markets

This paper aims to apply innovation networks (INs) theory to the context of domesticated markets, where innovation triggers deinstitutionalization. In such contexts, the success…

Knowledge transfer between actors in the innovation system: a study of higher education institutions (HEIS) and SMES

The purpose of this paper is to understand how and why small to medium enterprises (SMEs) access knowledge from external actors in general and from higher education institutions…

Editorial - Organizing for innovation networks

Editorial – Innovation networks: the key role of actors