Charmianne Dunnewijk-Lemmens

Charmianne works as researcher for UNU-MERIT and the Maastrich University Office. Her academic research concerns Innovation Strategies, Strategic Alliances, Global Business Strategies and International Inter-organizational R&D networks. Specific topics include technology catch up strategies of emerging countries, alliance capability development and network analytical methods.

Charmianne has a PhD in Organization Science (2003). Her PhD thesis focuses on the innovative performance of R&D alliance networks in the microelectronics industry. She holds a master degree in International Business Studies (cum laude) from Maastricht University.

She worked as Assistant Professor for the department of Organization Science and Marketing (Faculty of Technology Management) and the Eindhoven University of Technology. She has published in several international journals and books on alliances & innovation and has been teaching master courses in alliance management.

Charmianne's work experience is not only academic; before she joined UNU-MERIT, she worked for several years as Consultant Strategic Alliances for Philips Alliance Office at Philips International Headquarters in Amsterdam. Her job was to improve and institutionalize Philips' alliance capabilities in the Domestic Appliances, Lightning and Consumer Electronics divisions. She also worked as Marketing Manager Home and Export markets for a babycare products company called Difrax in Bilthoven.

Recent publications:

International (refereed) journals

Duysters, G.M., Jacob, J., Lemmens, C.E.A.V. and Jintian Hu (2009), Internationalization and Technological Catcing Up of Emerging Multinationals: a Comparative Case Study of China's Haier Group, Industrial and Corporate Change, forthcoming

Bell, J. and C.E.A.V. Lemmens (2007), Alliantievaardigheden als kerncompetentie: een verdiepende case study, Tijdschrift voor Management en Organisatie, Themanr. Ondernemen in allianties en netwerken - een multidisciplinair perspectief, 61 (3/4) 129-138

Vrande V.J.A., Lemmens, C.E.A.V. and W.P.M. Vanhaverbeke (2006), Choosing Governance modes for External technology Sourcing, R&D Management Journal, 36 (3)

Gilsing, V.A., Lemmens, C.E.A.V. and G.M. Duysters (2006), Strategic Alliance Networks and Innovation: a Desterministic and Volumtaristic View Combined, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 18(05), 535-560

Duysters, G.M. and C.E.A.V. Lemmens (2003), Alliance Group Formation: Enabling and Constraining Effects of Embeddedness and Social Capital in Strategic Technology Alliance Networks, International Studies of Management & Organization, 33 (2): 49-68

Duysters, G.M., J. Hagedoorn and C.E.A.V. Lemmens (2003), The Effect of Alliance Block Membership on Innovative Performance, Revue d'Economie Industrielle, Special Issue on 'La Morphogénèse des Réseaux', nr. 103, 2nd and 3rd trimester 2003

Books

Lemmens, C.E.A.V. (2004), Innovation in Technology Alliance Networks, Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar publishing

Lemmens, C.E.A.V. (2-12-2003), Network Dynamics and Innovation: The Effects of Social Embeddedness in Technology Alliance Blocks, Einhoven Univerisity of Technology, PhD thesis, (promotoren: prof.dr. G.M. Duysters, prof.dr. J. Hagedoorn), Eindhoven University Press

Chapters in books

Bell, J. and C.E.A.V. Lemmens (2007), Alliantievaardigheden als Kerncompetentie - een Verdiepende Case Study, in: Boonstra, J. (ed.): Ondernemen in Allianties en Netwerken - Een Multidisciplinair Perspectief, Deventer: Kluwer, pp. 131-141

Beerkens, B. and C.E.A.V. Lemmens (2001), Tech Alliances: Managing Your Alliance Portfolio, in: De Man, A., G.M. Duysters, and A. Vasudevan (eds.): The Allianced Enterprise: Global Strategies for Corporate Collaboration, London: Imperial College Press, pp. 93-107

Working papers

Lemmens, C.E.A.V., Duysters, G.M., Letterie, W. and W.P.M. Vanhaverbeke (2009), The Innovative Performance of Alliance Block Members: Evidence from the Microelectronics Industry, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2008-064

Lemmens, C.E.A.V., Duysters, G.M. (2009), Alliance Constellations: Does Composition Matter? Evidence from the Microelectronics Industry, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2008-060, submitted to Journal of Product Innovation Management

Gilsing, V.A. and C.E.A.V. Lemmens (2006), Strategic Alliance Networks and Innovation: a Deterministic and Voluntaristic View Combined, The Organistion of Innovation and Transaction, Working Paper Series No. 2, Transforum Agro & Groen, Sustainable and Informed Entrepreneurship, Drukkerij A-Twee

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