...Jens Ola Eklinder-Frick; Andrea Perna; Alexandra Waluszewski Purpose Previous IMP research has shown that innovation benefits tend to gravitate across organisational, company and legal borders. However, OECD and EU policy assume that innovation investments will create benefits in close spatial...

... actors. Three major aspects will be considered: the first is that heaviness, space and journey imply restrictions, the second is that these aspects can be positively utilised in innovation processes, and the third is their joint importance to contemporary policy. All innovation processes must bypass...

...Magnus Eklund; Alexandra Waluszewski Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold, first, to shed light on the different patterns in which international marketing and purchasing (IMP) and national innovation system (NIS) were embedded into the Swedish policy context, where the first approach must...

... Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Policy Effects of relationships Public purchasing The research in this paper is essentially analytical and conceptual (Wacker, 1998), as it consists of considering and building logical arguments...

...Lars-Gunnar Mattsson Purpose – The problem addressed is how policies to promote sustainable development may be implemented in market practice. The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual framework on which further research on sustainable market practice can be based. Design...

... that is being enacted when heterogeneous resources interact in producer-user interfaces. This mismatch between strategy and outcome may subsequently help to explain the limited impact of policy on regional growth. The new economic geography as defined by Krugman (1998) is the research field concerning why...

...Morten H. Abrahamsen; Håkan Håkansson Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse how different policy perspectives or logics regarding industry organising affect network interaction, with particular focus on how the availability of resources is organised. Design/methodology/approach...

...Lars-Erik Gadde; Frida Lind Purpose – Previous studies of innovation policy claim that there is a mismatch between the underlying assumptions of these policies and the reality of how firms involved in innovation operate. The purpose of this paper is to deepen the knowledge of actual innovation...

... government policy should support this. Design/methodology/approach – A longitudinal study of a furniture company has been used. The company’s relationship with its large foreign customer is analysed from the perspective of the market-oriented power dependence and the IMP interdependence concept...