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Overview

Geert Duysters is affiliated with Tilburg University in the Netherlands and has focused research efforts primarily within the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their scholarly contributions cover several key subfields including Strategy and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Economics and Econometrics, Accounting, and Management Science and Operations Research.

The main topics explored in their work include:

  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting
  • Economic and Technological Innovation
  • Intellectual Capital and Performance Analysis
  • Business Strategy and Innovation

Recent publications by Geert Duysters demonstrate a range of focus areas, exemplified in the following works:

  • Ambidexterity and innovation in cluster SMEs: evidence from Indonesian manufacturing, 2022, Industry and Innovation
  • The innovator's dilemma: the performance consequences of sequential or flexible exploration and exploitation patterns in turbulent environments, 2021, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management
  • Inter-firm learning: Learning Opportunities in R&D Alliances, and Learning Capacities of the Firms, 2020, Academy of Management Proceedings
  • The conflict between social role expectations and entrepreneurial role demands among women entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa: empirical study from Ethiopia, 2021, Gender in Management An International Journal
  • Searching Beyond the Horizon: Opportunity and Motive in CVC Investments, 2020, Academy of Management Proceedings

Frequent publication venues for their work include the Academy of Management Proceedings, which features four of their papers, as well as Industry and Innovation, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, and Gender in Management An International Journal.

Geert Duysters has collaborated with several coauthors over the course of their career. Some frequent collaborators include:

  • Zi-Lin He
  • Jojo Jacob
  • Maggie Qiuzhu Mei
  • Theresia Gunawan
  • Anna Sabidussi

This researcher's work intersects with multiple aspects of innovation management, entrepreneurship, and strategic business studies. Their contributions span empirical examination of firm innovation dynamics, exploration-exploitation patterns in evolving environments, inter-firm learning mechanisms, and socio-economic factors influencing entrepreneurship in different regions.

Best Publications

  • Optimal cognitive distance and absorptive capacity

    Bart Nooteboom;Wim Van Haverbeke;Wim Van Haverbeke;Geert Duysters;Victor Gilsing

  • Network embeddedness and the exploration of novel technologies: technological distance, betweenness centrality and density

    VA Victor Gilsing;B Nooteboom;Wpm Wim Vanhaverbeke;GM Geert Duysters

  • External Sources of Innovative Capabilities: The Preferences for Strategic Alliances or Mergers and Acquisitions

    J Hagedoorn;GM Geert Duysters

  • The role of entrepreneurship education as a predictor of university students’ entrepreneurial intention

    Y Ying Zhang;GM Geert Duysters;Mmah Myriam Cloodt

  • Networking as a Means to Strategy Change: The Case of Open Innovation in Mobile Telephony

    K Dittrich;GM Geert Duysters

  • Alliance Capability as a Mediator Between Experience and Alliance Performance: An Empirical Investigation into the Alliance Capability Development Process*

    KH Koen Heimeriks;GM Geert Duysters

  • External Technology Sourcing Through Alliances or Acquisitions: An Analysis of the Application-Specific Integrated Circuits Industry

    Wim Vanhaverbeke;Geert Duysters;Niels Noorderhaven

  • Collaboration and innovation: a review of the effects of mergers, acquisitions and alliances on innovation

    AP Ard-Pieter de Man;GM Geert Duysters

  • Managing supplier involvement in new product development: A multiple-case study

    Ferrie E. A. van Echtelt;Finn Wynstra;Arjan J. van Weele;Geert Duysters

  • Intellectual property rights, strategic technology agreements and market structure : the case of GSM

    Rna Rudi Bekkers;GM Geert Duysters;B Bart Verspagen

  • Learning in Dynamic Inter-firm Networks - The Efficacy of Multiple Contacts

    John Hagedoorn;Geert Duysters

  • The effect of mergers and acquisitions on the technological performance of companies in a high-tech environment

    J. Hagedoorn;G.M. Duysters

  • The technological origins of radical inventions

    Wwme Schoenmakers;Wwme Schoenmakers;Wwme Schoenmakers;GM Geert Duysters;GM Geert Duysters

  • Determinants of Alliance Portfolio Complexity and Its Effect on Innovative Performance of Companies

    Geert Duysters;Boris Lokshin

  • Crafting successful strategic technology partnerships

    Geert Duysters;Gerard Kok;Maaike Vaandrager

  • The Small worlds of Strategic Technology Alliances

    B Bart Verspagen;GM Geert Duysters

  • Brokerage in SME networks

    Yem Yvonne Kirkels;GM Geert Duysters

  • Core competences and company performance in the world-wide computer industry

    GM Geert Duysters;J Hagedoorn

  • Strategic repositioning by means of alliance networks: The case of IBM

    K Dittrich;GM Geert Duysters;AP Ard-Pieter de Man;AP Ard-Pieter de Man

  • External technology sourcing : the effect of uncertainty on governance mode choice

    van de Vja Vareska Vrande;Wpm Wim Vanhaverbeke;GM Geert Duysters

  • Network embeddedness and the exploration of novel technologies: technological distance, betweenness centrality and density

    Victor Gilsing;Bart Noteboom;Wim Vanhaverbeke;Geert Duysters

Frequent Co-Authors

John Hagedoorn
John Hagedoorn Royal Holloway University of London
Wim Vanhaverbeke
Wim Vanhaverbeke University of Antwerp
Victor Gilsing
Victor Gilsing Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Bart Nooteboom
Bart Nooteboom University of Groningen
Wim Naudé
Wim Naudé RWTH Aachen University
Niels Noorderhaven
Niels Noorderhaven Tilburg University
Bart Verspagen
Bart Verspagen Maastricht University
Mike Allen
Mike Allen University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Finn Wynstra
Finn Wynstra Erasmus University Rotterdam

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