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Existing studies of supplier involvement in new product development have mainly focused on project-related short-term processes and success-factors. This study validates and extends an existing exploratory framework, which comprises both long-term strategic processes and short-term operational...
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In their seminal paper, Acs and Audretsch (1988) analyze innovation patterns across industries and identify several … innovation; industries characterized by increased shares of skilled labor and large firms provide favorable conditions for … innovation. By analyzing a new and more consciously compiled database, we re-examine their original claims. Our results largely …
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This paper examines the effect of innovation on the risk of exit of a firm, distinguishing between different modes of … exits. Innovation represents a resource and a capability that helps a firm to build competitive advantage and remain in the … empirically by linking data on innovation and exits for a large sample of manufacturing firms in the Netherlands. The results show …
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framework in which product intelligence leads to consumer satisfaction through the innovation attributes of relative advantage …
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The study provides theoretical insights and empirical evidence on the emergence of different types and degrees of entrepreneurial innovativeness. The results suggest that entrepreneurial innovativeness depends both on individual factors and on the environment in which the individual lives. In...
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Local governments in Western Europe increasingly use city time-access regulations to improve social sustainibility. These regulations significantly influence the distribution process of retail chain organizations. This paper studies the impact of governmental timewindow pressure on retailers’...
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Research background: It has been one decade since the transposition deadline regarding the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive. The EU´s growth strategy, Europe 2020, and all EU member states are committed to smart, sustainable, and inclusive growth, to the single internal market and to R&D...
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Remanufacturing has long been perceived as an environmentally-friendly initiative. The question of how remanufacturing moderates the relation between environmental impact and economic returns is still unanswered, however. In this paper, we focus our attention on the electronics industry. In...
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Ride-share systems, which aim to bring together travelers with similar itineraries and time schedules, may provide significant societal and environmental benefits by reducing the number of cars used for personal travel and improving the utilization of available seat capacity. Effective and...
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expenditure on eco-innovative activities as well as the instruments measuring the influence of eco-innovation. The analysis of the …
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