Innovation is crucial for the success of enterprises and entrepreneurial activity. For the purposes of the study …, processes and decision-making methods entrepreneurs use (Slevin & Covin 1990, Miller 1983) reflected in innovation strategy …, culture, structure and capabilities. This study widens the questions on how, through whom and with what effects innovation …

Both academics and practitioners emphasize the importance for product firms of pursuing service innovation. Despite a … strategic focus on service-led growth, however, many firms struggle to succeed with their service innovation initiatives. In … order to increase our understanding of the nature of service innovation in product firms, this chapter discusses the …

and external knowledge. Knowledge in turn constitutes one of the main inputs to service innovation. Hence, social software … has the potential to support service innovation. Using data from 505 German Information- and Communication Technology (ICT … social software applications triggers innovation. Thereby, it refers to a knowledge production function in which social …

We propose a methodology for estimating the competition effects from entry when firms sell differentiated products. We … presence and to measure the magnitude of competition effects. We then show how to augment the traditional entry model with a … unbiased estimates of the competition effects from entry. We apply our approach to seven different local service sectors. We …

This paper analyzes the relationship between service innovation and different types of enterprise software systems, i … Germany, this is the first paper empirically analyzing whether both types of enterprise software foster innovation in the … between sector specific enterprise software and innovation activity while customized enterprise software is possibly related …