Cultural differences in trust in high-tech international business ventures: the case of a US-Poland cooperation / Alexandra Gerbasi, Dominika Latusek -- Trust as a success factor in open innovation: the case of Nokia and GNOME / Malgorzata Ciesielska, Zilia Iskoujina -- Management of virtual teams and capabilities in business networks / A.T. Juntunen -- Group processes in the virtual work environment: evidence for an alliance-building dimensionality / Andrea Roofe Sattlethight, Sungu Armagan -- Creation of indicators determining the work of high-tech business practitioners: validity, reliability, and negotiation revisited / Irene Lorentzen Hepsø, Vidar Hepsø -- So into it they forget what time it is?: video game designers and unpaid overtime / Marie-Josée Legault, Kathleen Ouellet -- Making a rod for one's own back: employee bargaining for smartphones in a telco's R&D department / Christopher Russell -- In the name of flexibility: three hidden meanings of "the real work" in a Finnish software company / Marja-Liisa Trux -- Professional and managerial language in hybrid industry-research organizations and within the hybrid clinician manager role / Louise Kippist, Kathryn J. Hayes, Janna-Anneke Fitzgerald -- The engineering project as story and narrative / Lars Bo Henriksen -- Stories of material storytelling / Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen, Anete M. Camille Strand -- Excessive value creation: under the tyranny of a new imaginary / David Sköld, Lena Olaison -- Organizational characteristics of middle managers' deterioration as sources of organizational decline / Masaru Karube, Toshihiko Kato, Tsuyoshi Numagami -- Innovation capability in high-tech companies: exploring the role of organizational culture and empowerment / Alper Ertürk -- Gendered technology-based organizations: a view of the glass cliff through the window of the glass ceiling / Ben Tran.