representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …

innovation activities. Portuguese and German data from the harmonised Community Innovation Survey (CIS III) allow us to compare … innovation cooperation behaviour of private firms in the two countries. Using a bivariate probit model, we show that the … cooperation, firm size and the importance of protection methods for knowledge have a positive influence in both countries on the …

the importance of adoption externalities and knowledge spillovers inherent in the introduction of ICT. The results show …

We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness … of organizational adaptability, implying an optimal threshold value of innovation off-shoring. This value is 11% for …

This study examines how industry-specific managerial experience affects firms' innovation performance in the context of … providing knowledge about how to cope with institutional shortfalls potentially hampering the commercial success of new products. …

prone to increase employment, while firms that want to slash costs by innovation and compete by soft factors decrease …

affect firms' innovation strategy choices, concretely, whether to abstain from innovation, to introduce products that are … known in the market but new to the firm (imitation) or to introduce market novelties (innovation). Using a sample of 1253 … effectiveness is low or medium, both innovation and imitation are enhanced, whereas if it is high, only innovation is enhanced. …

new knowledge and alliances that aim at exchange of existing knowledge, the results suggest that the positive effect on … patent quantity is driven by knowledge exchange rather than joint R&D. Firms engaged in joint R&D, on the other hand, receive … patenting, our results further suggest that knowledge creation alliances lead to patents that are filed to protect valuable …

We investigate the effect of profit-sharing on product and process innovation. Profit-sharing is a credible commitment … that the introduction of profit-sharing only spurs product innovation. …