increasing companies' value and underline the importance of accelerating privatization in Iran. Practical implications – To … improve the performance and consequently the value of companies, the process of privatization in Iran must be accelerated and …

Patent information is an essential ingredient for fostering innovations. Although most of developed countries have been … using patent information as a source of technological information to assist R&D companies and organizations, Tanzania is … lagging behind. Recognizing the critical role of patent information in nurturing innovations, Tanzania has recently engaged in …

Summary This paper analyzes empirically the effects of innovation on employment at the firm level using a uniquely long … introduce different innovation categories. We find clearly positive effects for product and process innovations on employment … growth with the effects for process innovations being slightly higher. For product innovations that involved patent …

innovation research – several family firm definitions. Given the censored nature of the endogenous variable chosen, a Tobit model … is used. Findings Drawing upon agency theory and the ability and willingness paradox in family firm innovation, it finds …

-enrichment), meaningfulness of work, reading of timeless Chinese novels, innovation (ZTE) and the knowledge organization, changing and …, innovation and knowledge, Russo-Chinese strategic alliances, fit in strategic management and China-in-transition. This paper ties …

respect of Skala Trade and Centrum; lack of attention to important privatization developments ow taking place; and failing to …

management practices. The focus is on knowledge management practices implemented to increase collaboration on innovation … over 1,500 innovative German firms from the Mannheim Innovation Panel of 2003. Findings – The paper finds that an … innovation strategy targeted at consumers and continuous R&D activities are positively related to knowledge management usage by …