International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship
Special Research Forum Call for Papers:
Innovation, Market, and Organizations
The International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship (IJTE) is pleased to
announce a call for papers for the special issue on Innovation, Market,
and Organizations. The Guest Editor is Srikanth Paruchuri, University of
Florida.
The goal of the paper is to attract research and papers on an important
issue of the interaction among innovation, market, and organization.
Long time ago, Schumpeter posed an important question about the
organizational origin of innovation: do innovations origin in small vs.
large firms? Prior research, for example, has examined if the
competence-destroying (and competence-enhancing) innovations are
generated in small, innovative firms or in large firms. While this
research is mostly geared toward understanding the origins of
innovation, it has not given much less importance to another critical
link, that many of the founders of the small firms would have gained
expertise by working in large organizations (or academic institutions)
just before (or while) starting their venture. In some cases of new
ventures, these same large organizations (or academic institutions) even
play an important role by financing the ventures. These issues suggest a
much more complicated interaction among innovation, market, and
organization.
This special issue tries to extend our understanding of these complex
issues. To this end, we invite papers that try to uncover these
complicated relations among innovation, market, and organization. We
interpret innovations to include wide range of innovations: product,
process, service, organizational, and technological innovations. We
invite papers that study these relations at various levels of analysis
including team, organization, industry, and population. We would also
like to invite research that uses R&D consortia, alliances and joint
ventures as links between innovations and organizations.
Papers could include either theoretical or empirical research. Some
themes in this issue include but are not limited to the following.
- Do innovations follow or precede venture formation?
- Do entrepreneurs' prior organizations finance new ventures? If so,
what are the antecedents and consequences of this financing?
- How do ventures develop their own research capabilities independent of
their founders' capabilities? Is this process influenced by venture's
relationships with other organizations?
- What role do R&D consortia, alliances, joint ventures and networks in
general play in generating innovations within a new venture? And, are
these roles of consortia, alliances, and joint ventures different when a
large firm forms these ties?
- ...
Taking into consideration the international readership, we invite
research based in diverse empirical settings. These settings could be
based within a national boundary or across different national
boundaries. Studies could compare and contrast different cultures of
innovation and entrepreneurship, or focus on a specific context and
explore rich relationships within that context.
Considering there is so little in the practical world to guide managers,
this special issue is also intended to influence the practice of
management. Consequently, we invite research that is grounded solidly in
theory (and in empirical methodology for empirical papers), and also
request the authors to highlight the implications for managers.
Specifically, authors should shed light on the principles of management
that their research contributes.
Manuscripts must follow IJTE standard requirements as specified in the
"Style Guide for Authors." Cover letters must specify that the paper is
intended for the special issue.
All details are available at:
www.inderscience.com/ijte
Papers must be received no later than January 31, 2008 with a
publication of the Special Issue scheduled for the end of 2008.
Prospective contributors desiring additional information should contact
Srikanth Paruchuri at University of Florida, Gainesville (
paruchur@ufl.edu).
Francois Therin, D.B.A.
Associate Professor & Assistant Dean
Editor, International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship
Grenoble Ecole de Management
12, Rue Pierre Semard, 38000 Grenoble- France
Tel: +33 476706237
Fax: +33 476706099
Mobile: +33 622962005
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