Professor, University of Lausanne
Why to expand into countries which have different institutions? Why take such risk? Assuming it is worthwhile, how to enter these countries? In a recently published book chapter (Castañer & …
Expanding into institutionally different countries – a new book chapter Read MoreSome of the sessions devoted to exploitation and exploration of last week’s EURAM conference led me to further think about exploration (in other entries I already discussed issues of measurement and organizational …
On (the meaning of) organizational exploration: why it’s not necessarily innovation and how the analogy with territorial exploration might help us to better grasp it Read MoreAt the EURAM conference this week I attended at least two presentations in which the authors measure exploration with patents. This is actually a measure which has been used in …
Are patents a good measure of exploration? I don’t think so Read MoreIn the context of internal venture development (Burgelman, 1985), last Thursday in my Corporate Strategy class we discussed March’s (1991) idea of the need of organizations and individuals to engage …
How to engage in both exploitation and exploration? Read More