innovation in project-based firms

 

Project-based firms (PBFs) considers projects embedded in an organizational network and institutional context. PBFs organize their structures, strategies and capabilities around the needs of projects, which often cut across conventional industrial and firm boundaries. Several authors indicate the difficulty of transferring knowledge in projects due to a short-term perspective and a fluctuating workforce, moreover project-based organizing often lacks incentives and formal structures for cross-project learning. We perform research on governance mechanisms and knowledge transfer in cooperative innovation projects in which several organizations cooperate to develop a new product/service.


Publications:


  1. -Bosch-Sijtsema , P.M. & T.J.B.M. Postma (2010) “A knowledge based approach in project-based industries: four cases of cooperative innovation projects,” Technology Analysis and Strategic Management journal, vol. 22 (5): 593-608.

  2. -Bosch-Sijtsema, P.M. & T.J.B.M. Postma (2009) “Cooperative innovation projects: Capabilities and Governance Mechanisms”, Journal of Product Innovation Management, 26 (1): 58-70

  3. -Bosch-Sijtsema, P.M. (2007) “Cooperative virtual development projects,” eJOV, Electronic Journal of Organizational Virtualness, special issue, vol. 8: 6-27.

  4. -Bosch-Sijtsema, P.M. & Postma, Theo (2005) “Knowledge transfer in project-based environments: a study on innovation projects in the construction industry. Proceedings of OKLC2006, Warwick, UK.

  5. -Bosch-Sijtsema, Petra M. & Postma, Theo (2004) “A Knowledge-based approach to innovation: An application for project-based firms,” SOM research report, No. 04B18.

  6. -Bosch-Sijtsema, Petra M. & Postma, Theo (2004) “A Knowledge-based approach to innovation: An application for project-based firms,” paper in proceedings of EGOS (European group of organizational studies), Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 1-3, 2004.

  7. -Bosch-Sijtsema, Petra M. & Theo Postma (2004) “A knowledge-based approach to innovation: An application for project-based firms,” conference proceedings of Organizational Knowledge, and Learning Capabilities Conference (OKLC2004), Innsbruck, Austria, 2004.