Frans van den Bosch

TL;DR: In this article, a large-scale survey among Dutch firms showed that R&D has a decreasingly positive relationship with product innovation, particularly for firms with low levels of management innovation.

TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual framework of the determinants of the corporate center location is proposed to predict the stickiness of corporate centers of European Union-based corporations will diminish due to the European Union integration process and in particular triggered by the expected EU legislation regarding the removal of legal barriers against corporate mobility.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated trajectories of strategic renewal of Europe's five largest incumbent operators and the impact on financial performance for the period 1992-2001 and found that the renewal trajectories suggest herd behaviour, indicating a preference for adopting similar organizational templates due to institutional forces resulting in a common ‘follow the industry' renewal trajectory.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how the service tasks of non-executive directors have evolved in the Netherlands and found that the emphasis on non-employee directors' external service task has shifted to their internal service task.

TL;DR: It is confirmed that horizontal knowledge flows develop units’ breadth of knowledge stocks, which in turn positively relates to exploratory innovations, and illustrates how firms may create competitive advantage by developing and balancing distinct types ofknowledge stocks at the unit level.