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mediating role of innovation. The study was conducted on a total of 500 SMEs out of which 391 responses were received … performance of SMEs in Ghana. Innovation partially mediates between customer orientation and performance. Innovation fully … mediates between inter-functional orientations and performance whereas innovation has no mediation between competitor …
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Studies show that when exports go up, innovation goes up as well. But what is the mediating effect of domestic … institutions in the association between exports and innovation? If any, which institutions are more likely to improve exports and … innovation in developing countries, and how? To address this lacuna, this study employs estimations of industry fixed effects for …
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content analyses of location-based Twitter messages (n = 11,236) from Australia. The results disclose that: (a) digital … transformation, innovation, and sustainability are the most popular AI application areas in urban planning and development; (b …
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effect on innovation. It is also noted that entrepreneurial attitudes, such as openness to change and self …-transcendence, have a mediating role in the positive impact of values on innovation. The article contributes to the literature by showing … to influence innovation in small businesses. …
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characterize entrepreneurship, its motivations, knowledge and capacity for innovation. A participant observation was carried out … Schumpeterian condition. This paper advances in theoretical knowledge by identifying that the Schumpeterian innovation of this … in places in which knowledge is disseminated as innovation. …
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This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...
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The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research was instituted in 1996, and it is now firmly established as the leading Prize for outstanding research contributions in the area. Thanks to a generous donation from the Swedish entrepreneur Rune Andersson it has been...
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Analysing the relationship between firms' openness to external knowledge and their innovation performance is nothing … focus of this paper. Using unique micro-level innovation data, it is shown, as the existing literature suggests, that firms …. However, innovative firms that exploit external knowledge do not necessarily enjoy greater innovation benefits than those that …
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Cooperation can benefit and hurt firms at the same time. An important question then is: when is it better to cooperate. And how can an appropriate partner be selected? In this paper we present a model of inter-firm cooperation driven by cognitive distance, appropriability conditions and external...
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firm's environmental innovation performance. However, the literature suggests that R&D collaboration is not always … beneficial. Therefore, a more elaborated analysis of the effects of R&D collaborations on a firm's environmental innovation … a firm's environmental innovation performance. In addition, this paper addresses the question of whether the diversity …
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