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 …

rich data set. The paper shows that innovation expenditures and investments in information and communication technologies …

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