significant positive relationship between scanning and innovation. Challenges to the firm in the form of environmental dynamism …

Four antecedents, it is argued, are necessary precursors for a firm to capture rents from innovation. The antecedents … are causal understanding; innovation team proficiency; emergence and mobilization of new competences; and creation of … central thesis, that achieving each of the four antecedent processes increases the predicted rents from an innovation project. …

A firm's manager must decide whether to adopt an innovation of uncertain profitability or to obtain some information … and then decide to adopt or reject the innovation. Obtaining information can involve either waiting to receive some …

I examine whether technological innovation is a motivating factor in firms' acquisition decisions and how an … acquisition (or an acquisition withdrawal) affects technological innovation in subsequent years. I find that firms engaging in … acquisition activities are less innovative and have often experienced declines in technological innovation during the years prior …

This study asserted that quality improvement (QI) requires the coexistence of two cultural values of innovation and … practices had differential effects on innovation and attention to detail: ISO 9000 positively affected attention to detail but … negatively affected innovation. Both QI teams and quality goals positively affected innovation. Thus, the multiple QI initiative …

Based on the innovation and technological diffusion literatures, promising research questions concerning the …

This paper identifies four groups among 113 Fortune 500 manufacturers that approach innovation quite differently. The …. Both product innovation and financial performance differ significantly over the groups, and a group of 42 firms that invest … heavily in innovation perform best financially. A smaller group of firms that are not innovative but which follow a strategy …