IMPROVING INNOVATION CAPABILITIES BY COOPERATION: EXAMINING EFFECTS OF CORE NETWORK MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS AND RELATIONAL MECHANISMS IN THE INDUSTRIAL GOODS SECTOR

For companies, cooperation represents a way to innovate more effectively. Within this respect, past literature stresses the importance of core network management functions and relational mechanisms for the effectiveness of interorganisational cooperation. However, it is still unclear whether and how core network management functions and relational mechanisms improve a firm’s innovation capability from interorganisational cooperation. Based on...