... to procure or copy are also the ones that are more tacit and difficult to share internally as well. Bala Chakravarthy can be contacted at: Chakravarthy@imd.ch © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Corporate strategy Partnership Business development Knowledge sharing Networking...

... change Networking Employee involvement Today's dynamic work environment is witnessing the effects of globalization, technology advances, complex multinational organizations, more frequent partnering across national borders and company boundaries and other enablers and accelerators of change...

..., health, insurance, food products and many others. Fourth, social networking. Businesses have moved away from being product‐ and firm‐centric, business models in which the firm creates value in the form of a product or service. Firms like Google, Apple, Starbucks, eBay, and others co‐create...

... and business processes, examine the characteristics of an integrated, co‐innovative, cooperative supplier network, named the A‐Team. Findings The paper finds that, broadly speaking, integrated, co‐innovative supplier networks have two basic features that differentiate them from traditional modular...

..., alliance partners, and customers. Design/methodology/approach Through case studies of two Japanese companies, the author examines the successful new product development process practised by these strategic communities and their networks. Findings As the cases reveal, strategic...