Organizing for Innovation: Co-Ordinating Distributed Innovation Capabilities

By J. Metcalfe, R. Coombs. 2000

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Innovating routines in the business firm: what corporate tasks should they be accomplishing? (2002, background): “…management; heavyweight project teams) to informal ones emerging from everyday practice (e.g. meetings 2 I have also benefited from earlier work with Stephano Brusoni and Andrea Prencipe (Brusoni et al., 2000), by P. Nightingale (Nightingale, 2000), and from reading Coombs and Metcalfe (2000).”
The multiple boundaries of the firm (2003, background): “These suggestions point to the notion that capabilities can span firm boundaries, are embedded in interfirm processes and routines and their development has to be understood in the context of a dense network of formal and informal relationships with external parties (Coombs and Metcalfe, 2000; Dyer ”
The Commitment of Packaging Industry in the Framework of the European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy (2019, background): “In addition to inter-firm alliances, industrial networking is pursued by technology-based joint ventures (Metcalfe and Coombs 2000), basically aimed to reinforce experimentation on bio plastic and recycled plastic applications.”
Competitive dynamics and economic learning: an extended resource-based view (2003, background): “1 I owe this insight to the pathbreaking paper by Coombs and Metcalfe (1999) where they introduce the notion of "distributed capabilities.”