...Jialin Hardwick; Alistair R. Anderson; Douglas Cruickshank Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the practices and processes of trust building and use in collaborative networking for product innovation and to compare face to face with virtual networking. Design/methodology/approach...

...Jeroen P.J. de Jong; Willem Hulsink Purpose Small firms rely on a variety of network partners, and in various roles, to initiate and implement innovations. While past typologies of innovation networking were defined at the level of firms or industries, the purpose of this paper is to develop...