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Special issue on Service innovation in business-to-business firms (Deadline for submissions: 30 April 2012) Special Issue on Innovation in Business-to-Business Networks (Deadline for submissions 30 November 2012) Special issue on Role of relationships and networks in radical innovation (Deadline for submissions 1 October 2012) Special issue on Service innovation in business-to-business firms (deadline for submissions: 30 April 2012) The aim of this special issue is to understand more in detail service innovation in business-to-business and industrial contexts. Services dominate the world's established economies and are becoming increasingly important in developing economies. Service innovation is becoming vital not only for service firms but also for many product-centric organizations, particularly since product commoditization and low-cost competition make traditional product innovation insufficient to address the challenges of globalization and economic transformation. Guest Editors: Dr Daniel Kindström, Associate Professor Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden E-mail: daniel.kindstrom@liu.se Dr Christian Kowalkowski, Associate Professor Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden E-mail: christian.kowalkowski@liu.se For more information, please visit: JBIM Call for Papers Innovation in Business-to-Business Networks Innovation as a collaborative phenomenon (Powell et al., 1996) has lead to the development of the concept of innovation networks (INs) (Dhanaraj and Parkhe, 2006; Von Hippel, 2007), where actors interact to develop innovations of different nature (Ahuja, 2000; Westerlund and Rajala, 2009): “An innovation network is [about]... the linkages between organizations… in order to create, capture and integrate the many different skills and knowledge needed to develop complex technologies and bring them into the market” (Calia et al., 2007: 427). The critical sources of innovation, thus, often reside somewhere in a company’s surrounding business network (Björk and Magnuson, 2009). Through co-operation in innovating, firms can access complementary knowledge and share the costs and risks of innovative activities. Innovation networks can therefore be considered as an alternative form of organization in knowledge production. In these inter-organizational networks, several business actors have valuable impact on the knowledge and innovation creation process (Rampersad, Quester and Troshani, 2010). Accordingly, innovation tends to result from various interactions among different organizations (Häkansson et al., 2009), often very heterogeneous (Cantù, Corsaro and Shenota, 2011; Mason, 2011) in terms of different industries, goals, organizational structures, views of the surrounding network, roles, and other characteristics. Actors —like companies, intermediaries, research centers, governmental institutions, trade unions, universities, laboratories, technology centers, development organizations, local and international associations— join together to achieve mutually defined goals (Child and Faulkner, 1998). However, their goals can be very diverse and, furthermore, the same actor may try to achieve different goals (Corsaro and Snehota, 2011) in the context of different interaction and innovation processes. Our Call for Papers is aimed at exploring how the features of business actors impact the innovations generated in interactions in networks. The topic of how such different actors confront their goals and how this impacts on the process of generation, adoption, and diffusion of an innovation is of particular interest. Some specific, but not exclusive, research questions are the following: • How do different business actors’ goals impact innovations generated in networks? • How do these goals combine and co-exist in the development, adoption and diffusion of innovation? How do they address innovation-related processes? • Does the interaction among actors with heterogeneous goals lead to certain resource interfaces to develop more than others? • How do different goals co-exist in a business actor and how do they affect the different innovation processes it is involved into? • Are there any patterns in how actors’ goals and the innovation networks change over time? Submissions of papers Papers submitted must not have been published, accepted for publication, or presently be under consideration for publication with any other journal. Submissions should be approximately 6,000-8,000 words in length. Submissions to the Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing must be made using the ScholarOne ManuscriptCentral system. For more details, please visit: www.emeraldinsight.com/jbim.htm and consult the author guidelines. Suitable articles will be subjected to a double-blind review. Hence authors should not identify themselves in the body of the paper. Submission deadline: 30 November, 2012. The best papers from the 28th IMP Conference – Special Track Combining the Social and Technological Aspects of Innovation: Relationships and Networks – will also be selected and invited for submission to this Special Issue. Special Issue Editors Daniela Corsaro, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, daniela.corsaro@unicatt.it Chiara Cantù, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, chiara.cantu@unicatt.it Annalisa Tunisini, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, annalisa.tunisini@unicatt.it References Ahuja, G. (2000). Collaboration networks, structural holes, and innovation: a longitudinal study. Administrative Science Quarterly, 45(3): 425-455. Björk, J. & Magnusson, M. (2009). Where Do Good Innovation Ideas Come From? Exploring the Influence of Network Connectivity on Innovation Idea Quality. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 26(6): 662–670. Calia, R. C., Guerrini, F. M. & Moura, G. L. (2007). Innovation networks: From technological development to business model reconfiguration. Technovation, 27(8): 426-432. Cantù C, Corsaro, D. & Snehota, I. (2011). Roles of actors in combining resources into complex solutions. Journal of Business Research, In press. Child, J., & Faulkner, R. R. (1998). Strategies of co-operation: Managing alliances, networks, and joint ventures. New York: Oxford University Press. Corsaro, D. & Snehota, I. (2011). Alignment and Misalignment in Business Relationships. Industrial Marketing Management, 40(6): 1042-1054. Dhanaraj, C. & Parkhe, A. (2006). Orchestrating Innovation Networks. Academy of Management Review, 31(3): 659-669. Håkansson, H., Ford, D., Gadde, L. E., Snehota, I. & Waluszewski, A. (2009). Business in networks. Great Britain: Wiley and Sons. Mason, K. (2011). A commentary on “The role of actors in combining resources into complex solutions”. Journal of Business Research, In press. Powell, W.W., Koput, K.W. & Smith-Doerr, L. (1996). Interorganizational collaboration and the locus of innovation: Networks of learning in biotechnology. Administrative Science Quarterly, 41(2): 116-145. Rampersad, G.C., Quester, P. & Troshani, I. (2010). Managing innovation networks: Exploratory evidence from ICT, biotechnology and nanotechnology networks. Industrial Marketing Management, 39(5): 793-805. Von Hippel, E. (2007). Horizontal innovation networks - by and for users. Industrial and Corporate Change, 16(2): 293-315. Westerlund, M. & Rajala, R. (2010). Learning and innovation in inter-organizational network collaboration. Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, 25(6): 435-442. Special issue on ‘Role of relationships and networks in radical innovation’ Contributions to this special issue should present new theories or research into relationships, networks and interactions in radical innovation in business-to-business and industrial contexts. All types of research study including quantitative and qualitative analysis, case studies, conceptual and empirical research are welcomed. Papers from academics and practitioners in the area are welcomed. Papers that take an inter-disciplinary approach to the role of relationships and networks in radical innovation are also encouraged. The following themes represent some topics which are of particular interest to the overall focus of the special issue: • Radical innovation in both manufacturing and service contexts • Resource mobilisation • Characteristics of successful relationship development in a radical innovation context • Whether tightly coupled or loosely coupled networks yield stronger radical innovation outcomes Submission deadline: 1st October 2012 For more information, please visit the journal homepage www.emeraldinsight.com/jbim.htm Guest Editors: Dr Judy Zolkiewski, Dr Vicky Story and Dr Jamie Burton |
