2012
DOI: 10.1108/00070701211229981
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Asymmetric relationships in networked food innovation processes

Abstract: Purpose: In innovation networks, SMEs' capability to innovate is both enhanced and restricted by more powerful or better positioned partners. The purpose of this article is to ask how managers of processing SME suppliers in Italian and Swiss food innovation networks experience their relationships with innovation network partners and how they configure modes of interaction with them. Design/methodology/approach: A series of problem centered interviews with managers of six Swiss and five Italian food sector SMEs… Show more

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“…The application of this combined framework is rather unique, particularly in the agricultural sector (Colurcio et al, 2012;Colurcio and Russo-Spena, 2013). By using this approach, a deeper understanding is gained as to how farmers experience the asymmetry in their relationships for innovation with colleagues, suppliers and buyers, thereby enabling improvements to the innovation capacity of farmers via networking.…”
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“…The application of this combined framework is rather unique, particularly in the agricultural sector (Colurcio et al, 2012;Colurcio and Russo-Spena, 2013). By using this approach, a deeper understanding is gained as to how farmers experience the asymmetry in their relationships for innovation with colleagues, suppliers and buyers, thereby enabling improvements to the innovation capacity of farmers via networking.…”
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“…This typology identifies seven main characteristics of asymmetry (see Table I). The contribution of Johnsen and Ford can be seen as a successful attempt by longstanding research (Ford and Rosson, 1982;Ford, 2001, 2008) and is considered a cornerstone in the literature on the topic of asymmetry since it offers clearer elements with which to define asymmetric relationships and provides a map of relationships' characteristic typologies (Colurcio et al, 2012). …”
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“…Both the coordination and the organization of different knowledge and viewpoints within collective projects between different organizations (Frohm, 2002), e.g. in the food SMEs context, represent a big challenge (Colurcio et al, 2012;Deiters and Schiefer, 2012).…”
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“…the resources within the boundaries of the organization into processes of value creation. Furthermore, this skill also involves access and coordination of important organizational resources that are beyond its borders (Sanchez, 2002;Colurcio et al, 2012).…”
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