Professor, University of Lausanne
In business and corporate strategy, as the second dimension of relatedness – similarity being the other – complementarity has to do with the capability of two or more different elements to create …
On complementarity: definition and measurement Read MoreSince the early 1990s, there is a renewed academic interest in the notion of business complementarity, i.e. the complementarity between two or more businesses or companies (e.g. Harrison et al, …
On business complementarity Read MoreSince at least the early 1990s, several observers have argued that the USA suffers from an artistic deficit. Most of them have claimed that cultural organizations – in particular, performing art …
Artistic deficit and the determinants of cultural programming and innovation Read MoreBusiness diversification – a corporation being active in more than one business or industry – is currently viewed negatively. Influenced by organizational economics and finance – agency theory (e.g. Ross, 1973; …
The currently biased use of the conglomerate term by stock analysts and strategy consultants Read MoreThe last twenty years have witnessed an increasing use of the concept of modularity. Initially used to refer to product design and its underlying technologies (e.g. Baldwin & Clark, 2000; Henderson & …
Modularity, near-decomposability and interdependence: On conceptual parsimony again Read MoreSome readers might ask themselves why in my entry on defining entrepreneurship I put “new” good in quotes and why I didn’t include innovation as one of the concepts related to entrepreneurship. …
Entrepreneurship is not always innovative – on the meaning/referent of innovation Read MoreEntrepreneurship as a teaching and research field has been struggling to define and establish itself. It is usually associated with the creation of new organizations (start-ups) and thus it relates to …
What is entrepreneurship? Read MoreThe meaning of the dynamic capability term in the organizational literature seems to be evolving. The original meaning of Teece et al (1997) had somewhat of a tautological character as …
How should a dynamic capability be defined Read MoreAmbidexterity refers to the ability to perform the same task equally well with both hands. So, for instance, one is ambidextrous if one can write equally well with either hand. I believe …
The concept of organizational ambidexterity – or why we shouldn’t use this term in the way it’s now Read More