H. W. Volberda

Preservation and Dissolution of the Target Firm's Embedded Ties in Acquisitions (2006)

Spedale, S., Volberda, H.W.

Our study builds on extant theory on embeddness to concentrate on the process of preservation and dissolution of the target firm’s embedded ties in acquisitions. We identify four critical areas -...

Investigating Managers' Exploration and Exploitation Activities: The Influence of Top-down, Bottom-up, and Horizontal Knowledge Inflows (2006)

Exploratory Innovation, Exploitative Innovation, and Performance: Effects of Organizational Antecedents and Environmental Moderators (2006)

This paper develops and tests hypotheses on the influence of a manager’s knowledge inflows on this manager’s exploration and exploitation activities. Based on a survey among managers of a leading...

Complex Incremental Product Innovation in Established Service Firms: A Micro Institutional Perspective (2006)

Research on exploration and exploitation is burgeoning, yet our understanding of the antecedents and consequences of both activities remains rather unclear. We advance the growing body of literature...

On the Evolution of Trust, Distrust, and Formal Coordination and Control in Interorganizational Relationships: Towards an Integrative Framework (2006)

Many product innovation studies have described key determinants that should lead to successful incremental product innovation. Despite numerous studies suggesting how incremental product innovation...

Complex incremental product innovation in established service firms: A micro institutional perspective (2006)

In this article, we discuss the evolution of trust, distrust, and formal coordination and control in interorganizational relationships. We suggest that the degrees to which managers trust and...

Vermeulen, P.A.M., Bosch, F.A.J., Volberda, H.W.

How Management Consulting Firms Influence Building and Leveraging of Clients’ Competences: Towards a conceptual framework (2005)

The Influence of Managerial and Organizational Determinants of Horizontal Knowledge Exchange on Competence Building and Competence Leveraging (2005)

The focus in research upon resources, dynamic capabilities and competences has challenged firms to apply these concepts to improve their competitive position. Management consulting firms may assist...

Reciprocity of Knowledge Flows in Internal Network Forms of Organizing (2005)

Both in theory as in practice insight is limited about how firms in dynamic environments could organize to manage concurrently both the strategic processes of competence building and competence...

Volberda, H.W., Heinhuis, S.M.

Fundamental changes in the competitive landscape triggered many firms to leverage and build competencies by focusing on transition processes towards internal network forms of organizing. These forms...

Managing Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity: How do Organizational Antecedents matter? (2005)

How Knowledge Accumulation changed the Competitive Advantage of Strategy Consulting Firms (2005)

This study explores how organizational antecedents affect potential and realized absorptive capacity. Our study identifies differential effects for both components of absorptive capacity. Results...

Organizing The Innovation System For Reusability: The Case Of Made-To-Order Markets (2004)

Research evidence confirms that the accumulation of knowledge contributes to the competitive advantage of firms. In the strategy consulting industry, one of the most knowledge-intensive professional...

Oshri, I., Volberda, H.W.

This paper examines the transfer of designs between projects within firm in the context of made-to-order producing companies. This practice is also known as knowledge reuse. Past studies has provided...

Longevity in services: the case of the Dutch warehousing companies 1600-2000 (2004)

Driel, H. Van, Volberda, H.W., Eikelboom, S.

In this paper, we explore the factors that determine the longevity of firms. Five central factors were distilled from the literature: position in the supply chain, the nature of the technology used,...

Investigating Strategic Renewal of Five Large Dutch Financial Services Firms (2004)

Developments in information technology (IT) are perceived to promote interorganizational cooperation within and across industry boundaries. IT-enabled cooperation has challenged the creation of...

Flier, B., Volberda, H.W., Baden-Fuller, Ch.

How do large well-established firms renew themselves in an increasing turbulent environment? Is there a generic pattern of change or is each change journey rather idiosyncratic? We posed five...

Rethinking the Dutch Innovation Agenda: Management and Organization Matter Most (2004)

Crisis in Strategy: Fragmentation, Integration or Synthesis (2004)

In this essay, we challenge the present dominant emphasis in the Dutch Innovation Debate on the creation of technological innovations, the focus on a few core technologies, and the allocation of more...

The International Relocation of Corporate Centres: Are Corporate Centres Sticky? (2004)

The strategy field is replete with competing prescriptions and directives with regard to successful performance. Although integration should be pursued more vigorously from an academic standpoint, in...

The importance of disclosure in corporate governance self-regulation across Europe: A review of the Winter Report and the EU Action Plan (2004)

Empirical research reveals that relocations of corporate centres are most times confined to national borders. Until now, cross-border relocations are

Maassen, G.F., Volberda, H.W.

Although self-regulation has proven to be effective for the development of voluntary corporate-governance codes, the results of this study indicate that leading European companies are not yet too...

Exploring Exploration Orientation and its Determinants: Some Empirical Evidence (2004)

Sidhu, J.S., Volberda, H.W., Commandeur, H.C.

Adopting an information-process perspective, this article conceptualizes exploration orientation in terms of scope of information acquisition. In line with this conceptualization, a multidimensional...

De Flexibele Onderneming: Strategieën voor Succesvol Concurreren (2004)

Mastering Strategic Renewal: Mobilizing Change in Large Multiunit Firms (2004)

De Flexibele Onderneming: Strategieën voor Succesvol Concurreren Deventer: Kluwer (2004)

Naar flexibele ondernemingsvormen: Succesvol concurreren in de 21e eeuw (2004)

Het veranderde energie-landschap in Europa. (2004)

Stienstra, M., Naeye, W.J., Volberda, H.W.

Verplaatsing van bedrijfsactiviteiten naar het buitenland. Hoe honkvast blijven de hoofdkantoren? (2004)

Absorptive Capacity: Antecedents, Models and Outcomes (2003)

Building Alliance Capability: Management Techniques for Superior Alliance Performance (2003)

This chapter focuses on the gap between the speed of proliferation of theoretical and empirical contributions and the speed of accumulation of the acquired scientific knowledge regarding absorptive...

Draulans, J., Man, A.P. De, Volberda, H.W.

Despite the fact that they represent a growing element of business strategy, alliances between organisations quite often result in failure. This is partly due to the fact that firms have not built up...

Coevolution in the strategic renewal behaviour of British, Dutch and French financial incumbents: interaction of environmental selection, institutional effects and managerial intentionality (2003)

Co-evolutionary Dynamics Within and Between Firms: From Evolution to Co-evolution (2003)

How do incumbent firms and environments co-evolve and how are firm-level adaptation and selection at industry level interrelated? Can and do large established organizations renew themselves to adapt...

Lewin, A.Y., Volberda, H.W.

The extensive selection–adaptation literature spans diverse theoretical perspectives, but is inconclusive on the role of managerial intentionality in organizational adaptation. Indeed this...

Het managen van strategische vernieuwing: lessen uit de financiële dienstensector (2003)

Concurreren in de polder (2003)

De "shock and awe"-strategie (2003)

Slechte of Goede Voornemens: van angst-naar durfstrategieën (2003)

De rollen van de organisatieadviseur en hun invloed op de concurrentiepositie van de cliënt (2003)

Nederland degradeert: door gebrek aan kennis en innovatie uit de wereld top-10 (2003)

Nederland moet weer terugkeren in innovatie-toptien (2003)

Strategische vernieuwing van ondernemingen: het managen van innovatie en efficiency (2003)

Bouwen aan duurzame netwerkorganisaties: een aanzet tot het verenigen van exploitatie en exploratie (2003)

Janssen, A., Volberda, H.W., Asselbergs, C.

Herstructurering van concerns: Van angst-naar durfstrategie�n (2003)

Masterminds: Shaping the Knowledge-based Economy (2003)

Strategic Renewal Processes in Multi-unit firms: Generic Journeys of Change, Ch. 10 (2003)

Strategic Flexibility: Creating Dynamic Competitive Advantages, Ch. 32 (2003)

Dormant Capabilities, Complex Organizations, and Renewal (2003)

Absorptive Capacity: Antecedents, Models, and Outcomes, Ch. 14 (2003)

Wijk, R. Van, Volberda, H.W.

A Cognitive Perspective on Strategizing/Organizing, Ch. 6 (2003)

Dijksterhuis, M.S., Volberda, H.W.

The Future of Organization Studies: Beyond the Selection-Adaptation Debate (2003)

Lewin, A.Y., Volberda, H.W.

Knowledge and Networks, Ch. 22 (2003)

De relatie tussen informatietechnologie en interorganisatorisch concurrentievoordeel (2003)

The Conditioning and Knowledge-Creating View: Managing Strategic Initiatives in Large Firms, Ch. 8 (2003)

Wielemaker, M.W., Volberda, H.W., Elfring, T., Baden-Fuller, Ch.

Mastering strategic renewal -- lessons from the financial services sector (2002)

E-Partnering: Moving Bricks and Mortar Online (2002)

Man, A.P. De, Stienstra, M., Volberda, H.W.

The Internet has been one of the main drivers behind the growth in number of partnerships. Although e-partnerships have received attention in research, this attention has mainly been reserved for the...

L'e-partenariat séduit la vieille économie (2002)

Man, A.P. De, Stienstra, M., Volberda, H.W.

Kern van succesvol ondernemen: balanceren van exploitatie en exploratie (2002)

Ondernemen in Economische Neergang: X-Management? (2002)

Het veranderende landschap in de Europese financiële sector: vooruitblik op de financiële sector in de 21ste eeuw (2002)

Exploitatie en exploratie van kennis: het managen van de determinanten van horizontale kennisuitwisseling (2002)

E-partnering: hoe grote gevestigde ondernemingen zich vernieuwen via het internet (2002)

Stienstra, M., Man, A.P. De, Volberda, H.W.

De kern van succesvol ondernemen: balanceren van exploitatie en exploratie (2002)

De ontwikkeling van de online financiële sector: Gevestigde ondernemingen versus nieuwe spelers (2002)

Explore your boundaries. Or someone else will (2002)

Nu of Nooit: Profileren, Stimuleren en Verbreden van Onderwijsvernieuwing in de BaMa-structuur (2002)

Ondernemen in economische neergang: revitalisatie of zelfs transformatie? (2002)

Strategische vernieuwing in de financiële sector: succesvolle veranderingstrajecten van grote financiële spelers (2002)

Toward the Flexible Form: How to Remain Vital in Hypercompetitive Environments (2002)

Coevolution of Firm Capabilities and Industry Competition (2001)

Huygens, M.W., Baden-Fuller, Ch., Volberda, H.W.

This paper proposes that rival firms not only search for new capabilities within their organization, but also for those that rest in their competitive environment. An integrated analysis of these...

How well-established firms prepare for the new economy; An empirical study of the developments of new economy initiatives (2001)

Wielemaker, M.W., Elfring, T., Volberda, H.W.

Rethinking strategy (2001)

Volberda, H.W., Elfring, T.

Schools of thought in strategic management: Fragmentation, Integration or synthesis (2001)

Multiple futures of strategy synthesis: Shifting boundaries, dynamic capabilities and strategy configurations (2001)

Mastering Strategic Renewal: Mobilizing Renewal Journeys in Multi-unit Firms (2001)

Following the Herd or Not? Patterns of Renewal in the Netherlands and the UK (2001)

How do large multi-unit firms in a deconstructing world reconcile the conflicting forces of profits for today and flexibility to adapt for tomorrow? Profits for today requires order, control, and...

Volberda, H.W., Flier, B., Gedajlovic, E.R.

How do large firms conduct their strategic renewal journeys in an increasingly turbulent environment? Are there generic industry patterns, or are these renewal journeys country- or firm-specific? To...

Mastering strategic renewal (2001)

The Changing Landscape of the European Financial Services Sector (2001)

Flier, B., Volberda, H.W., Carnevale, C.A., Tomkin, N., Melin, L., ...

Acting Cooperatively While Being Revolutionary: An Insider-Outsider Cybermediary Theory (2001)

Clicks versus Bricks in the Emerging Online Financial Services Industry (2001)

Coevolution of Firm Capabilities and Industry Competition: Investigating the Music Industry 1877-1997 (2001)

The emergence of electronic commerce raises important questions about the building and leveraging of legitimacy for both practitioners and scholars of strategy. New entrants' click-and-mortar or...

Huygens, M.W., Baden-Fuller, Ch., Volberda, H.W.

This paper proposes that rival firms not only search for new capabilities within their organization, but also for those that rest in their competitive environment. An integrated analysis of these...

How Well-Established Firms Prepare for the New Economy: An Empirical Study on the Development of New Economy Initiatives (2001)

Wielemaker, M.W., Elfring, T., Volberda, H.W.

In this study we investigated 30 ventures in four large firms. We categorized four projects as characterized by "new economy" principles. These were projects that focused on increasing returns. We...

Paralysis by Analysis: Een adviseur die niet in proactieve strategieën gelooft? (2001)

Bedrijfskundig onderzoek in Nederland: Een eerste inventarisatie van de top-30 (2001)

Volberda, H.W., Bax, M.

Management van kennisintegratie in de context van industrieel complex in ontwikkeling (2001)

Boer, M. De, Volberda, H.W.

Een strategische analyse van de ontwikkeling van het on-line financiele dienstverleningscomplex: Een coevolutionair perspectief (2001)

De Waarde van Strategie voor de Onderneming (2001)

Rethinking Strategy (2001)

Volberda, H.W., Elfring, T.

Dormant Capabilities, Complex Organizations and Renewal, Ch. 6 (2001)

Multiple Futures of Strategy Synthesis: Shifting Boundaries, Dynamic Capabilities and Strategy Configurations (2001)

Schools of Thought in Strategic Management: Fragmentation, Integration or Synthesis (2001)

New Entrants versus Incumbents in the Emerging On-Line Financial Services Complex (2000)

Strategic Renewal in Large European Firms: Investigating Viable Trajectories of Change (2000)

The emergence of electronic commerce complexes raises important questions regarding competence building and leveraging, both for practitioners and strategy scholars. Competences of brick-and-mortar...

Wielemaker, M.W., Elfring, T., Volberda, H.W.

Blijvend Strategisch Vernieuwen: Het herschikken van de multi-unit onderneming (2000)

Strategische vernieuwing in grote, complexe ondernemingen: Een inventarisatie van mechanismen voor herstructurering, Special Issue Corporate Restructuring (2000)

Kennisabsorptie van ondernemingen: Hoe co-evolueren ondernemingen in een dynamische kennisomgeving? (2000)

Volberda, H.W., Boer, M. De

Globalisering en lokale aanpassingen nopen tot netwerkorganisatie (2000)

Brouwer, S.C., Volberda, H.W.

Corporate restructuring: meer dan downsizing alleen, Special Issue Corporate Restructuring (2000)

Couwenberg, O., Volberda, H.W.

Strategische Vernieuwing in de Top 5 van de Nederlandse Financiële Sector, Special Issue Corporate Restructuring (2000)

Het veranderende landschap in de Europese financiële sector, Vooruitblik op de financiële sector in de 21e eeuw (2000)

Strategische vernieuwing in de top vijf van de Nederlandse financiële sector (2000)

Co-evolutionary perspectives on competence leveraging and building: New entrants versus incumbents in the emerging on-line financial service complex (2000)

FARSYS: A Knowledge-based System for Managing Strategic Change (1999)

Volberda, H.W., Rutges, A.C.

In theories of strategic management, organizational flexibility is considered as a strategic asset in situations in which anticipation is impossible and strategic surprise likely. In these...

Managing Organizational Knowledge Integration in the Emerging Multimedia Complex (1999)

Boer, M. De, Volberda, H.W.

Due to technological convergence, complexes of interrelated industries are emerging. This paper presents a conceptual framework of the role different organizational forms and combinative capabilities...

Co-evolution of Firm Absorptive Capacity and Knowledge Environment: Organizational Forms and Combinative Capabilities (1999)

Volberda, H.W., Boer, M. De

This paper advances the understanding of absorptive capacity for assimilating new knowledge as a mediating variable of organization adaptation. Many scholars suggest a firm's absorptive capacity...

Where Do New Organizational Forms Come From? Management Logics as a Source of Coevolution (1999)

Dijksterhuis, M.S., Volberda, H.W.

Many scholars have described organization form as a management tool in the alignment of organization and environment. As the environment of many companies becomes more chaotic, the exploration of...

Prolegomena on Coevolution: A Framework for Research on Strategy and New Organizational Forms (1999)

Lewin, A.Y., Volberda, H.W.

Decades of research in strategy and organization science and in branches of economics and decision sciences have not resolved the adaptation selection debate. This debate continues in the face of a...

Permanente strategische vernieuwing (1999)

Kennismanagement in de ICT sector: Organisationele innovatie door traditionele uitgeverijen (1999)

Boer, M. De, Volberda, H.W.

Alliantievaardigheid: een bron van concurrentievoordeel (1999)

Draulans, J., Man, A.P. De, Volberda, H.W.

De strategische rol van het middenkader. Een verkennende studie in de energiesector (1999)

Eschbach, C., Volberda, H.W.

Kennismanagement: nieuw aandachtsgebied voor de controller (1999)

Vaassen, E.H.J., Volberda, H.W., Weezenberg, J.N.

Building the Flexible Firm : How to Remain Competitive (1999)

Building The Flexible Firm: How To Remain Competitive (1999)

Blijvend strategisch vernieuwen: het herschikken van de multi-unit onderneming (1999)

Strategic Renewal and Competence Building: Four Dynamic Mechanisms (1999)

Kennismanagement: nieuw aandachtsgebied voor de controller (1999)

Vaassen, E.H.J., Volberda, H.W., Weezenberg, J.N.

Blijvend Strategisch Vernieuwen (1998)

Flexibele organisaties bouwen (1998)

Concurreren op basis van organisatievorm: Een speurtocht naar nieuwe flexibele ondernemingen (1998)

Flexibilisering van Nederlandse ondernemingen (1998)

Volberda, H.W., Flier, B.

Internationale Professionele Advies Firma's: Naar het einde van de hiërarchie? (1998)

Brouwer, S.C., Volberda, H.W.

Blijvend Strategisch Vernieuwen: Concurreren in de 21e eeuw (1998)

Toward The Flexible Form: How To Remain Vital in Hypercompetitive Environments (1998)

Building Flexible Organizations for Fast-moving Markets (1997)

Strategic Renewal: How Large Complex Organizatons Prepare for the Future (1997)

De leerparadox: naar flexibele organisatievormen en permanent lerende ondernemingen (1997)

Flexibele organisaties: nieuwe mogelijkheden en beperkingen voor de informatiemanager (1997)

Op zoek naar een gedisciplineerde methodologie: Een synthetische benadering in management en organisatie (1997)

De co-evolutie van nieuwe organisatievormen (1997)

Volberda, H.W., Flier, B.

Op zoek naar een gedisciplineerde methodologie: Een synthetische benadering in management en organisatie (1997)

Environmental Turbulence: A look into its Dimensionality (1997)

Volberda, H.W., Bruggen, G.H. Van

Strategic Renewal in Large Complex Organizations: A Competence Based View (1997)

Porter on Corporate Strategy (1997)

Meyer, R.J.H., Volberda, H.W.

Towards The Flexible Form: How To Remain Vital in Hypercompetitive Environments (1996)

On the Concept of Flexibility: A Dual Control Perspective (1996)

Hypercompetition has received much attention, by an important question has not been answered: What organizational forms lead to success in hypercompetitive environments? Hypercompetition forces firms...

Naar een flexibele organisatie: Hoe bedrijven vitaal kunnen blijven in een hyperconcurrerende omgeving (1996)

Strategische vernieuwing binnen grootschalige complexe ondernemingen: Vier mechanismen voor verandering (1996)

Test de flexibiliteit van uw bedrijf, Reprint artikel Flexibiliteit: een integrale benadering (1996)

Volberda, H.W., Stelt, H. Van Der

Strategic Renewal from an Evolutionary Perspective: four dynamic Mechanisms (1996)

Strategic Renewal in large Complex Organisations: a competence based view (1996)

Flexible Configuration Strategies within Philips Semiconductors: A Process of Entrepreneurial Revitalization, Ch. 11 (1996)

Theory Building in Strategic Management: A Schools of Thought Approach (1996)

Flexibilisering: een integrale benadering (1995)

Flexibilisering van ondernemingen (1995)

Strategische vernieuwing binnen grootschalige, complexe ondernemingen: de spanning tussen ingrijpen en laten begaan (1995)

Strategische vernieuwing vanuit een evolutionair perspectief: vier dynamische mechanismen (1995)

Flexibilisering van ondernemingen (1994)

Naar Flexibele Ondernemingsvormen: omgaan met verandering en vasthoudendheid (1994)

Van strategische planning naar strategische flexibiliteit (1994)

Flexibiliteitsdiagnose-en herontwerp: softwaregereedschap ter ondersteuning van de organisatie-adviseur (1994)

Bouma, F., Rutges, A.C., Volberda, H.W.

Leerscholen in Strategisch Management (1994)

Integratie Hoofdvak Bedrijfskunde: Naar een verdere profilering van de identiteit van de eerste fase opleiding (1994)

Romkes G., Volberda, H.W.

Flexibiliteit en spontane strategievorming (1994)

Flexibiliteit: balanceren tussen starheid en chaos (1993)

Flexibele Organisaties: De paradox van verandering en vasthoudendheid (1993)

Flexibilisering van ondernemingen: balanceren tussen rigiditeit en chaos (1993)

Flexibilisering van Ondernemingen: Een uitweg voor verstarring en chaos (1993)

Organizational Flexibility: Change & Preservation (1993)

Stellingen over innovatie (1993)

Tijd en Strategie: Vier auteurs over tijd (1993)

Wit, B. De, Volberda, H.W.

De strategische planning voorbij: op weg naar flexibele configuratiestrategieën (1993)

A New Perspective on Entrepreneurship: A Dialectic Process of Transformation within the Entrepreneurial Mode, Type of Flexibility and Organizational Form (1993)

Analysis of Organizations Using Multiple Metaphors (1993)

Gazendam, H.W.M., Rutges, A.C., Volberda, H.W.

DSS en kennisacquisitie bij organisatie-diagnose (1993)

Rutges, A.C., Volberda, H.W.

Organizational Flexibility: Change and Preservation - A Flexibility Audit & Redesign Method (1992)

On the Concept of Organisational Flexibility (1992)

In theories of strategic management, organizational flexibility is considered as a strategic asset in situations in which anticipation is impossible and strategic surprise likely. In these situations...

Volberda, H.W., Leeuw, T. De

Flexibiliteit: Het juiste evenwicht tussen veerkracht en stabiliteit (1992)

Durlinger, B., Husken, F., Lange, H., Volberda, H.W.

FARSYS: An object-oriented tool for management consultancy support (1992)

Bouma, F., Rutges, A.C., Volberda, H.W.

On the Concept of Flexibility: A Control Perspective (1992)

On the Concept of Flexibility (1992)

Analysis of Bureaucracy using multiple Metaphors (1991)

Gazendam, H.W.M., Rutges, A.C., Volberda, H.W.

On the Concept of Organizational Flexibility (1991)

Flexibility: The Paradox between Change and Preservation (1991)

Flexibility: The Strategic Paradox of Change versus Preservation (1991)

Een Flexibele Organisatie als Voorwaarde voor Innovatie (1990)

Strategie: meer dan een planningsvraagstuk alleen (1990)

Broersma, P., Desar, M., Volberda, H.W., Vos, J.

The Entrepreneurial Process, Flexibility and Organizational Form (1989)

Flexibiliteit: een integrale managementbenadering (1988)

Volberda, H.W., Stelt, H. Van Der

Strategie: een ontwerpvraagstuk in de ruime zin van het woord (1988)

Strategie en Organisatie-Ontwerp (1988)

The Influence of Managerial and Organizational Determinants of Horizontal Knowledge Exchange on Competence Building and Competence Leveraging

How Management Consulting Firms Influence Building and Leveraging of Clientsâ€™ Competences: Towards a conceptual framework

Both in theory as in practice insight is limited about how firms in dynamic environments could organize to manage concurrently both the strategic processes of competence building and competence...

Absorptive Capacity: Antecedents, Models and Outcomes

The focus in research upon resources, dynamic capabilities and competences has challenged firms to apply these concepts to improve their competitive position. Management consulting firms may assist...

Coevolution of Firm Capabilities and Industry Competition

This chapter focuses on the gap between the speed of proliferation of theoretical and empirical contributions and the speed of accumulation of the acquired scientific knowledge regarding absorptive...

Huygens, M.W., Volberda, H.W.

This paper proposes that rival firms not only search for new capabilities within their organization, but also for those that rest in their competitive environment. An integrated analysis of these...

Organizing The Innovation System For Reusability: The Case Of Made-To-Order Markets

Oshri, I., Volberda, H.W.

This paper examines the transfer of designs between projects within firm in the context of made-to-order producing companies. This practice is also known as knowledge reuse. Past studies has provided...

Reciprocity of Knowledge Flows in Internal Network Forms of Organizing

Volberda, H.W., Heinhuis, S.M.

Fundamental changes in the competitive landscape triggered many firms to leverage and build competencies by focusing on transition processes towards internal network forms of organizing. These forms...

How Knowledge Accumulation changed the Competitive Advantage of Strategy Consulting Firms

Research evidence confirms that the accumulation of knowledge contributes to the competitive advantage of firms. In the strategy consulting industry, one of the most knowledge-intensive professional...

Managing Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity: How do Organizational Antecedents matter?

Developments in information technology (IT) are perceived to promote interorganizational cooperation within and across industry boundaries. IT-enabled cooperation has challenged the creation of...

Rethinking the Dutch Innovation Agenda: Management and Organization Matter Most

This study explores how organizational antecedents affect potential and realized absorptive capacity. Our study identifies differential effects for both components of absorptive capacity. Results...

On the Evolution of Trust, Distrust, and Formal Coordination and Control in Interorganizational Relationships: Towards an Integrative Framework

In this essay, we challenge the present dominant emphasis in the Dutch Innovation Debate on the creation of technological innovations, the focus on a few core technologies, and the allocation of more...

Exploratory Innovation, Exploitative Innovation, and Performance: Effects of Organizational Antecedents and Environmental Moderators

In this article, we discuss the evolution of trust, distrust, and formal coordination and control in interorganizational relationships. We suggest that the degrees to which managers trust and...

Complex Incremental Product Innovation in Established Service Firms: A Micro Institutional Perspective

Research on exploration and exploitation is burgeoning, yet our understanding of the antecedents and consequences of both activities remains rather unclear. We advance the growing body of literature...

Preservation and Dissolution of the Target Firm's Embedded Ties in Acquisitions

Many product innovation studies have described key determinants that should lead to successful incremental product innovation. Despite numerous studies suggesting how incremental product innovation...

Spedale-Latimer, S., Volberda, H.W.

Our study builds on extant theory on embeddness to concentrate on the process of preservation and dissolution of the target firmâ€™s embedded ties in acquisitions. We identify four critical...

Investigating Managers' Exploration and Exploitation Activities: The Influence of Top-down, Bottom-up, and Horizontal Knowledge Inflows

Investigating Strategic Renewal of Five Large Dutch Financial Services Firms

This paper develops and tests hypotheses on the influence of a managerâ€™s knowledge inflows on this managerâ€™s exploration and exploitation activities. Based on a survey among managers of...

New Entrants versus Incumbents in the Emerging On-Line Financial Services Complex

How do large well-established firms renew themselves in an increasing turbulent environment? Is there a generic pattern of change or is each change journey rather idiosyncratic? We posed five...

Longevity in services: the case of the Dutch warehousing companies 1600-2000

The emergence of electronic commerce complexes raises important questions regarding competence building and leveraging, both for practitioners and strategy scholars. Competences of brick-and-mortar...

Driel, H. Van, Volberda, H.W., Eikelboom, S.

In this paper, we explore the factors that determine the longevity of firms. Five central factors were distilled from the literature: position in the supply chain, the nature of the technology used,...

The Impact of Corporate Venturing on a Firmâ€™s Competence Modes

Burgers, J.H., Volberda, H.W.

In this conceptual paper we investigate how corporate venturing influences an organizationâ€™s competences. The impact of various types of corporate ventures on the portfolio of strategic...

Why New Business Development Projects Fail: Coping with the Differences of Technological versus Market Knowledge

Burgers, J.H., Volberda, H.W.

Managing through projects has become important for generating new knowledge to cope with technological and market discontinuities. This paper examines how the fit between the creation of...

Investigating the Development of the Internal and External Service Tasks of Non-executive Directors: The Case of the Netherlands (1997-2005)

Bezemer, P.J., Maassen, G.F., Volberda, H.W.

During the last decade, globalization and liberalization of financial markets, changing societal expectations and corporate governance scandals have increased the attention for the fiduciary duties...

Complex Incremental Product Innovation in Established Service Firms: A Micro Institutional Perspective