Purpose–This introduction paper to the special issue on “The twenty‐first century knowledge‐
based value drivers of innovation and sustainable development” aims to focus on such …

This article reviews the literature on business models in process industries. The review
reveals that the business model concept has gained an increasing amount of attention in …

Firms operate in an environment that is increasingly permeated with digital technology. The
incorporation of digital technology into products, services, and operations has significant …

Firms increasingly face competitive pressures related to rapid and continuous adaptation to
a complex, dynamic, and highly interconnected global environment. Pressing challenges …

When you examine the design of an organization for evaluating its efficiency and
effectiveness, you can look at it in a number of ways. You may gather information about what …

Purpose–A significant part of knowledge and experience in an organization belongs not to
the organization itself, but to the individuals it employs. Therefore, knowledge management …

The concepts of fit and alignment have been foundational to the field of strategic human
resource management. And while the theoretical premises that underlie these concepts …

The increased importance of knowledge creation and use to firms' global competitiveness
has spawned considerable experimentation with organizational designs for product …

Ewing Kauffman, founder of Marion Laboratories and the Kauffman Foundation, used to tell
future entrepreneurs how, while a young sailor during World War II, he took the initiative to …

We examine paradoxes in organizations and the organizations' ability to deal with the
resulting paradoxical tensions. Paradoxes constitute contradictory yet interrelated …