ABSTRACT The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently replaced its long-standing Political Program with two new programs: the Security and Preparedness Accountable Institutions Behavior Program. This article evaluates likely impact of reform by way original survey data. NSF Change Survey asked past recipients Standard Grant to evaluate their own previously funded proposals according program d...

Geographic localization of knowledge spillovers is a central tenet in multiple streams of research. However, prior work has typically examined this phenomenon considering only one geographic unit country, state or metropolitan area at a time, and has also rarely accounted for spatial distance. We disentangle these multiple effects by using a regression framework employing choice-based sampling ...

The historically prevailing view in the network literature has been that relationships within networks develop gradually and cumulatively over time, with power playing what might be termed a ‘concrete’ role in such a process, based primarily on identifiable resource dependencies. The concept of (Foucauldian) ‘system power’, beginning to emerge in the management and organisation literature, is n...

Knowledge sharing allows trading partners to orchestrate the operation of supply chain and capture positions of advantage. Yet, lack of knowledge sharing has been consistently found to be the most critical failure factor in supply chain management. This paper intends to study the factors affecting trading partners’ entering knowledge sharing ties. Drawing upon transaction cost economics and soc...

With the business environment become more complex and dynamic, organizations have been faced with more pressures of competition. Organizations are often compelled to form strategic alliances with other organizations to survive and prosper. The inter-organizational arrangement can become favorable seedbed for inter-organization conflict. The participants in the strategic alliance often spend a s...