Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship

Professor of Management

RSM Erasmus University

Rotterdam, 3000 DR

Netherlands

http://www.rsm.nl/fvandenbosch

Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM)

P.O. Box 1738

3000 DR Rotterdam

Netherlands

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1.

Absorptive Capacity: Antecedents, Models and Outcomes

ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2003-035-STR
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 26 Aug 2006
Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch, Raymond van Wijk, H. W. Volberda and H. W. Volberda
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School
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absorptive capacity, knowledge, innovation

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Exploratory Innovation, Exploitative Innovation, and Performance: Effects of Organizational Antecedents and Environmental Moderators

ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2006-038-STR
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 23 Dec 2006
Justin J. P. Jansen, Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch, H. W. Volberda and H. W. Volberda
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School
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Performance, Environment, Coordination Mechanisms, Exploratory and Exploitative Innovation

Managing Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity: How Do Organizational Antecedents Matter?

ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2005-025-STR
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Justin J. P. Jansen, Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch, H. W. Volberda and H. W. Volberda
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School
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combinative capabilities, absorptive capacity, organizational antecedents, external knowledge

Managing Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity: How Do Organizational Antecedents Matter?

Academy of Management Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 07 Jun 2005
Justin J. P. Jansen, Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch, H. W. Volberda and H. W. Volberda
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School
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Absorptive Capacity, Combinative Capabilities, Knowledge, Organizational Learning, Antecedents

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How Knowledge Accumulation Changed the Competitive Advantage of Strategy Consulting Firms

ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2005-026-STR
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 26 Aug 2006
Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch, Marc Baaij, H. W. Volberda and H. W. Volberda
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School
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strategy consulting, knowledge, exploitation and exploration, ambidextrous organization

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Exploratory Innovation, Exploitative Innovation and Peformance: Effects of Organizational Antecedents and Environmental Moderators

Management Science, 2006
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 21 Feb 2006
Justin J. P. Jansen, Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch, H. W. Volberda and H. W. Volberda
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School
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exploration/exploitation, innovation, coordination mechanisms, performance, environment

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How Management Consulting Firms Influence Building and Leveraging of Clients’ Competences: Towards a Conceptual Framework

ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2005-079-STR
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 21 Dec 2005
Marc Baaij, Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch, H. W. Volberda and H. W. Volberda
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School
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Competence Building and Leveraging, Exploitation & Exploration, Knowledge Broker, Management Consulting, Strategic Renewal

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Creation of Managerial Capabilities Through Managerial Knowledge Integration

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 03 Feb 2003
Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch and Raymond van Wijk
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
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managerial knowledge integration, managerial capabilities and competences, levels of management

8.

Coevolution of Firm Capabilities and Industry Competition

ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2001-61-STR, Cass Business School Research Paper
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 21 Feb 2003
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), City University, London - Cass Business School, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School
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coevolution, longitudinal research, music industry, competitive regime, multilevel research

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Boards of Directors’ Contribution to Strategy: A Literature Review and Research Agenda

ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2009-013-STR
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 Mar 2009
University of Padova - Department of Economics and Management, Queensland University of Technology - School of Management, University of Bocconi - Strategic and Entrepreneurial Management, Norwegian School of Management (BI) - Department of Innovation and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School
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boards of directors, contribution to strategy, literature review

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Investigating Managers' Exploration and Exploitation Activities: The Influence of Top-Down, Bottom-Up, and Horizontal Knowledge Inflows

ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2006-078-STR
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 14 May 2007
Tom J.M. Mom, Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch, H. W. Volberda and H. W. Volberda
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School
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Exploitation, Exploration, Bottom-up, Horizontal, Knowledge inflows, Manager-level, Top-down

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Rethinking the Dutch Innovation Agenda: Management and Organization Matter Most

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 09 Mar 2004
H. W. Volberda, H. W. Volberda and Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship
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strategy innovation, dynamic capabilities, organizing pinciples, srategic rgulation, mANAGEMENT, knowledge transfer, mindsets, exploration, exploitation

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On the Evolution of Trust, Distrust, and Formal Coordination and Control in Interorganizational Relationships: Towards an Integrative Framework

ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2006-035-STR
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 23 Dec 2006
Paul W.L. Vlaar, Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch, H. W. Volberda and H. W. Volberda
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School
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trust, distrust, formal coordination, formal control, evolution, interorganizational relationship

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Structural Differentiation and Ambidexterity: The Mediating Role of Integration Mechanisms

ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2008-072-STR
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 21 Nov 2008
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School
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ambidexterity, dynamic capabilities, structural differentiation, formal and informal integration mechanisms, exploration and exploitation, L22, HD58.9

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Why New Business Development Projects Fail: Coping with the Differences of Technological Versus Market Knowledge

ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2007-072-STR
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 27 Nov 2007
J. Henri Burgers, Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch, H. W. Volberda and H. W. Volberda
Australian Centre of Entrepreneurship Research, QUT Business School, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School
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new product development, project management, strategic alliances, knowledge, new business development, exploitation-exploration, sales force

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Investigating Strategic Renewal of Five Large Dutch Financial Services Firms

ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2004-032-STR, Cass Business School Research Paper
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 24 Sep 2004
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School and City University, London - Cass Business School
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strategic renewal, competence building vs. competence leveraging, financial services firms

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Creating the N-Form Corporation as a Managerial Competence

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 03 Feb 2003
Raymond van Wijk and Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship
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Organizational forms, knowledge flows, managerial competence, internal networks, N-form Corporation

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The Influence of Top Management Team’s Corporate Governance Orientation on Strategic Renewal Trajectories

ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2010-032-STR
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 07 Sep 2010
Zenlin Kwee, Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch, H. W. Volberda and H. W. Volberda
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School
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corporate governance, exploitation and exploration, Royal Dutch Shell, strategic renewal, top management team, upper echelons perspective

18.

Required It-Related Capabilities for the Utilization of New Opportunities in Creating Interorganizational Competitive Advantage

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 24 Sep 2004
Paul W.L. Vlaar, Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch, H. W. Volberda and H. W. Volberda
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School
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interorganizational competitive advantage, capabilities and information technology

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Top Management Team Advice Seeking and Exploratory Innovation: The Moderating Role of TMT Heterogeneity

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 15 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2014
affiliation not provided to SSRNESSCA School of Management, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School
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Advice seeking, exploratory innovation, heterogeneity, top management teams

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Reciprocity of Knowledge Flows in Internal Network Forms of Organizing

ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2005-024-STR
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 13 Sep 2005
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School and Independent
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competence leveraging and building, internal networks, organizational attributes, reciprocity of knowledge flows, knowledge integration

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Coping with Problems of Understanding in Interorganizational Relationships: Using Formalization as a Means to Make Sense

ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2006-034-STR
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 23 Dec 2006
Paul W.L. Vlaar, Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch, H. W. Volberda and H. W. Volberda
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School
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Formalization, Sensemaking, Interorganizational Cooperation, Understanding

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Complex Incremental Product Innovation in Established Service Firms: A Micro Institutional Perspective

ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2006-037-STR
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 07 Aug 2006
Patrick A.M. Vermeulen, Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch, H. W. Volberda and H. W. Volberda
Tilburg University - Department of Organization Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School
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Financial Services Sector, Micro Institutional Forces, Neo-Institutional Theory, Complex Incremental Product Innovation

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The Influence of Managerial and Organizational Determinants of Horizontal Knowledge Exchange on Competence Building and Competence Leveraging

ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2005-080-STR
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 02 Jan 2006
Tom J.M. Mom, Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch, H. W. Volberda and H. W. Volberda
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School
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Competence Building, Competence Leveraging, Exploration & Exploitation, Horizontal Knowledge Flows, Novartis

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Coevolutionary Competence in the Realm of Corporate Longevity: How Long-Lived Firms Strategically Renew Themselves

ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2007-076-STR
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 10 Dec 2007
Zenlin Kwee, Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch, H. W. Volberda and H. W. Volberda
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School
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competence-based management, coevolutionary competence, corporate longevity, strategic renewal, adaptive open systems

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Reputation Management Capabilities as Decision Rules

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 10 Mar 2008
Pursey P.M.A.R. Heugens, C.B.M. van Riel and Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship
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reputation, reputation management, issues management, issue management, crisis management, capabilities, strategic capabilities, dynamic capabilities, genetically modified foods, genetic modification

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New Entrants Versus Incumbents in the Emerging On-Line Financial Services Complex

ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2000-41-STR
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 26 Aug 2006
Manuel Hensmans, Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch, H. W. Volberda and H. W. Volberda
London Business School, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School
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e-commerce, competence building and leveraging, co-evolution, legitimacy, on-line financial services complex

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Transition Processes Towards Internal Networks

ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2000-22-STR
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 26 Aug 2006
Raymond van Wijk and Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship
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internal networks, knowledge flows, differential paces of change

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Organizing the Innovation System for Reusability: The Case of Made-to-Order Markets

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 21 Dec 2004
Ilan Oshri, Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch, H. W. Volberda and H. W. Volberda
University of Auckland Business School, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School
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technology transfer, innovation, production systems, knowledge re-use strategies

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The Impact of Corporate Venturing on a Firm's Competence Modes

ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2007-061-STR
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 17 Oct 2007
J. Henri Burgers, Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch, H. W. Volberda and H. W. Volberda
Australian Centre of Entrepreneurship Research, QUT Business School, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School
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flexibility, corporate venturing, competence-based management, product and factor market dynamism

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Investigating the Development of the Internal and External Service Tasks of Non-Executive Directors: The Case of the Netherlands (1997-2005)

ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2007-074-STR
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 22 Feb 2008
Queensland University of Technology - School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School
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Preservation and Dissolution of the Target Firm's Embedded Ties in Acquisitions

ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2006-077-STR
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 08 May 2007
S. Spedale, Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch, H. W. Volberda and H. W. Volberda
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School
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Acquisitions, Embedded tie dynamics, Embedded ties

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How Knowledge Accumulation Has Changed Strategy Consulting: Strategic Options for Established Strategy Consulting Firms

Strategic Change, Vol. 14, pp. 25-34, 2005
Posted: 16 Aug 2005
Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch, Marc Baaij, H. W. Volberda and H. W. Volberda
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School

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consulting, strategy, knowledge

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Exploratory Innovation, Exploitative Innovation, and Ambidexterity: The Impact of Environmental and Organizational Antecedents

Schmalenbach Business Review, Vol. 57, pp. 351-363, October 2005
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 23 Nov 2005 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2008
Justin J. P. Jansen, H. W. Volberda, H. W. Volberda and Frans A. J. Van Den Bosch
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)Amsterdam Business School and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship
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Ambidexterity, Exploration/Exploitation, Organizational and Environmental Antecedents