A large body of research has investigated the impact of industrial relations on workplace innovation. Econometric … research based on U.S. data suggests that unions are detrimental to innovation, while evidence from Europe is more mixed. This … points to the importance of 'contextualized' theorizing about the effects of industrial relations on firm-level innovation …

knowledge involves an overly sharp distinction between technically possible and technically impossible a distinction which has … no counterpart in the realities of organizational knowledge. The main elements of a Schumpeterian view are described and …

discusses some of the interpretative achievements stemming from e.g. the economics of innovation, industrial economics …, epistemilogy of knowledge, economic sociology and history of technology among others. In particular, one tries to identify the …

As innovation becomes an ever more central issue for the development of firms and world economies, so the need for … capturing relevant aspects of innovation phenomena and the process of industrial change. We propose trademarks as a … complementary indicator in the portfolio of available empirical tools of innovation studies and industrial dynamics. Our empirical …