Abstract: The evolution of organizations that work in multinational environments has considerably altered their production strategies. One of the consequences has been the appearance of Horizontal Inter-firm Collaborations (HICs), which include all kinds of enterprises and production centres

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This paper seeks to study the theoretical and empirical theories of knowledge based strategic inter-firm collaboration between firms. Strategic alliances are innovative and interesting forms of relationships between organizations and organizations create alliances in their quest to compete against

It is commonly agreed that the landscape of US (and international) manufacturinghas changed significantly since the 1970s. The fragmentation of once-predictable mass markets rocked the Fordist order, with dramatic effects on corporate structure and divisions of labor within and between firms

collaboration in the fuzzy front-end: Structure as a two-edged sword

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This paper examines the performance implications of knowledge transfers across the organizational sub-units of a service franchise chain. Unlike previous studies in the field of inter-organizational learning, we directly address and measure the employment of knowledge transfer mechanisms involved

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Significant advances in manufacturing technology and the rapid intensification of the Internet and electronic commerce diffusion have given rise to competitive differentiation and rapid adaptability to competitive change. New product development is a complex and collaborative process that requires

Literature on innovation emphasises the potential for organisations to collaborate and network instead of carrying out innovation individually. Integrating suppliers, customers and other organisations into the innovation process is perceived as a key to success in innovation management (Chesbrough