... the essential role of boundary spanners to make such projects emerge from innovation spaces. Design/methodology/approach This research is based on a multicase study of four innovation spaces in French healthcare ecosystems. Distinguishing between independent innovation spaces and innovation spaces run...

... in facilitating and managing inter-organizational transactions (Fleming and Waguespack, 2007 ; Richter et al., 2006). Such boundary spanners benefit from possessing individual absorptive capacity (IACAP), which allows them to identify, assimilate, transform and implement external knowledge to benefit...

...-level boundary spanners in 295 strategic alliances in China (a total of 590 boundary spanners). A structural equation model (SEM) with bias-corrected bootstrap method was used to test the hypotheses. Findings The results show that although both procedural justice and distributive justice...