IMP Journal: Volume 11 Issue 1

Editorial

Alexandra Waluszewski, Ivan Snehota

The role of accounting for managing innovation processes when relationships matter

Johnny Lind

This paper studies how accounting information is used by actors in an innovation process. It investigates how accounting information influences and is influenced by the different…

The roles of deals and business networks in innovation processes

Per Ingvar Olsen, Håkan Håkansson

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the roles of deals in innovations processes, based on the definition of a deal as the interaction of social-material value-creating…

The role of policy in innovation: The challenging distribution of social, material and monetary benefits

Alexandra Waluszewski, Enrico Baraldi, Andrea Perna

Contemporary innovation policy investments rests on the assumption that the main problematic interface is the one between the non-business developing setting and a rather…

What is in it for me: firms strategizing for public-private innovation

Kristin B. Munksgaard, Majbritt Rostgaard Evald, Ann Højbjerg Clarke, Torben Munk Damgaard

Public-private innovation (PPI) is often claimed to contribute to societal welfare, to bring positive effects to the public sector and to open new markets to private firms…

Formalizing in business networks as a tool for industrial policy

Simone Guercini, Annalisa Tunisini

The purpose of this paper is to examine the issue of “formalization” in business networks as an instrument of industrial policy. Formalization in business networks is not a…

Customer portfolios – challenges of internal and external alignment

Ann Højbjerg Clarke, Per Vagn Freytag, Judith Zolkiewski

The purpose of this paper is to extend the discussion about customer portfolios beyond simple identification of models and how they can be used for balanced resource allocation to…

Investigating strategy tools from an interactive perspective

Caroline Cheng, Malena Ingemansson Havenvid

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the strategic management concept of “strategy tools” (STs) can be reinterpreted from an industrial network perspective. It…

Strategy from the perspective of contract manufacturers

Zsuzsanna Szalkai, Mária Magyar

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the strategy of contract manufacturers (CMs). The research question is the following: how can the strategy of CMs be explained? The…