Keld Laursen

TL;DR: Using a large-scale sample of industrial firms, this paper links search strategy to innovative performance, finding that searching widely and deeply is curvilinearly (taking an inverted U-shape) related to performance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the factors that influence why firms draw from universities in their innovative activities, and the role of different search strategies in influencing the propensity of firms to use universities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors take the theoretical point of departure in recent work in organisational economics on systems of human resource management (HRM) practices and develop the argument that complementarities between new HRM practices influence financial performance positively, there are theoretical reasons for expecting them also to influence innovation performance positively.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors find a concave relationship between firms' breadth of external search and formal collaboration for innovation, and the strength of the firms' appropriability strategies for innovation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present opportunities for future research on OI, organized at different levels of analysis, and discuss some of the contingencies at these different levels, and argue that future research needs to study OI - originally an organisational-level phenomenon.