Innovative companies' external information search in Russia

Johannessen, Jon-Arild; Dolva, Jens Otto

doi:10.1016/0268-4012(95)00037-8

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“…In this type of research, the framework guides the interview, the purpose of which is to gain understanding and meaning, rather than generalising findings to a specific population (Riley, 1996). Johannessen and Dolva (1995) state that semi-structured interviews enable the informant to "discourse freely on topics capturing his interest". With such a method, both flexibility and structure are achieved (Johannessen and Dolva, 1995).…”

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confidence: 99%

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The nature of networking in small firms

O’Donnell

2004

Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal

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For some time, researchers at the marketing/entrepreneurship interface have employed the concepts of networks and networking as a means of exploring how entrepreneurs "do business". More recently, attempts have been made to show how the process of networking contributes to small firm marketing. The overall research study on which this paper is based aimed to show how networking contributes to marketing. This paper focuses on a specific objective of the overall research study, namely an understanding of the process of small firm networking. It reviews previous research into the concept of networking and demonstrates how the process of networking can be captured as a number of dimensions along which entrepreneurial networking may vary. The paper then explains that while previous research has allowed a conceptual framework of small firm networking to be developed, further empirical research is merited and an entirely appropriate type of research is of a qualitative nature.

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confidence: 99%

“…Johannessen and Dolva (1995) state that semi-structured interviews enable the informant to "discourse freely on topics capturing his interest". With such a method, both flexibility and structure are achieved (Johannessen and Dolva, 1995).…”

Section: Data Collection Toolmentioning

confidence: 99%

The nature of networking in small firms

O’Donnell

2004

Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal

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“…According to Landabaso, the most important task for the people in the R&D sector relating to SMEs, is to be 'boundary spanners' in terms of technology and market development. On this basis, it is alarming that several Norwegian studies (Johannessen & Dolva, 1995;Johannessen & Kolvereid, 1994;Johannessen et al, 1997) find so little contact between R&D institutions and companies.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…However, the picture is completely different when it comes to external information seeking of business managers of SMEs. These managers make more extensive use of rational thinking, long-term planning and systematic search procedures (Johannessen & Dolva, 1995;Johannessen et al, 1997). In order to transform non-innovative small companies in a more Downloaded by [University of California Santa Cruz] at 13:07 14 October 2014 innovative direction the external information procedures must be changed into a coupling between informal external sources and a systematic long-term planning, where the development and use of personal networks are emphasized.…”

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Organizing innovation: Integrating knowledge systems

Johannessen

Dolva

Olsen

1997

European Planning Studies

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The question we attempt to shed light on in this article is: How can we organize national and regional innovation systems in order to increase innovation activity in SMEs globally (small and medium-sized enterprises)? From the individual company's point of view the question pertaining to research would be: How can SMEs utilize new knowledge, new skills and new technology, to increase innovation activity and improve their competitive advantage? The purpose of the article is to develop a simple model for regional innovation centres, designed to overcome the field of institutional inertia in which established institutions to a great extent are trapped. We will also discuss the concept of new scanning institutions.

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“…These respondents had boundary spanning roles with customers in collaborative innovation (Johannessen andDolva, 1995, Larson andStarr, 1993). The interviews took an hour or two and were recorded and transcribed.…”

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Trust formation processes in innovative collaborations

Hardwick

Anderson²,

Cruickshank³

2013

European Journal of Innovation Management

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the practices and processes of trust building and use in collaborative networking for product innovation and to compare face to face with virtual networking.Design/methodology/approachGuided by a literature review and preliminary participant observation, 16 open ended interviews collected data about the processes in 11 small biotech firms. These data were inductively analysed by the constant comparative method to develop explanatory themes.FindingsTrust was seen as a requirement for successful collaborative innovation, but the paper identified how different dimensions of trust are located in the trust building processes. Trust works by creating a platform of confidence that fosters flows of information and the exchange of tacit knowledge. Two types of trust relationships, the technical and the social, work in different ways to produce different, but complementary, types of trust. Virtual environments suit technical trust building but are less suited to developing deeper, more enduring forms of trust.Research limitations/implicationsThese different approaches to collaboration are often implicit. But if practitioners are made aware of how they work, they can use the most appropriate approach to build trust.Practical implicationsThe method and sample restrict general application, but the explanatory framework may be conceptually generalisable.Social implicationsNetworking for innovation is seen as much social as technical.Originality/valueThe paper contributes conceptually by theorising the trust building process and its role in knowledge sharing and collaborative innovation. It addresses a gap in the literature in identifying how trust is produced, developed and employed in furthering innovation, in particular the behavioural patterns of using virtual networks in furthering innovation.

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Innovative companies' external information search in Russia

Cited by 12 publications

References 16 publications

The nature of networking in small firms

The nature of networking in small firms

Organizing innovation: Integrating knowledge systems

Trust formation processes in innovative collaborations

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