Political activism positively affects firm innovation. Firms that support more politicians, politicians on … innovation. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that political activism is valuable because it helps reduce political … uncertainty, which, in turn, fosters firm innovation. Also consistent with this hypothesis, we show that politically active firms …

about future performance and standard measures of corporate innovation. We begin by developing a career concern model where … probability of failure, are more likely to pursue innovation, and that this effect is larger in more competitive industries. We …

, fosters firm innovation. We find that firms that support more politicians, winning politicians, politicians on Congressional … employ a natural experiment to show a causal effect of political activism on innovation. We also show evidence of intra …

The U.S. promotes and produces innovation through a wide range of interdependent institutions, ranging from the grant …" innovation is and in part on how amenable certain types of innovation are to certain forms of institutional provision. To put it … more concretely, (1) innovation is a public good that acts as an input for producing a wide range of dependent goods …

and innovation effort in firms. We test predictions derived from our framework using a sample of more than 7,000 firms … induce managers to decrease buffering effects promoting innovation effort; but 2) stronger NCGI employee protections magnify … increase commitment effects promoting innovation effort. Cross-country research on the relationship between firm slack and …

The objective of this study is to investigate the sensitivity of the estimated relationship between innovation and firm … different classifications of innovation. The analyses are performed in both level and growth rate dimensions. The overall …. -- Knowledge capital ; productivity ; innovation ; manufacturing ; services ; knowledge intensity ; Community Innovation Survey …

influences the innovation performance of a firm. While former studies mainly focused on knowledge management cycles, we … management techniques and their influence on product and process innovation. The ability to source external knowledge positively … the tools of knowledge management in function of the kind of technical innovation it wants to proceed …

how knowledge management influences the innovation performance of a firm. While former studies mainly focused on knowledge … techniques on product and process innovation. More specifically, if a firm wants to reduce costs, it is more valuable to invest … important for a firm to carefully select the techniques of knowledge management depending on the goals in its innovation …

The 2018 Global Innovation Index ranks Pakistan 118 out of 126 in innovation. One of the main reasons why developing … contemporary hurdles that lead to manufacturing firms' low agility and innovation performance. Based on the theory of dynamic … and innovation performance. However, in the presence of a diversified organizational culture (i.e., flexibility …

The aim of this study is to determine relationship between knowledge sharing, innovation and firm performance. In the … analysis results, it is seen that innovation speed and quality affect both the operational and financial performance of firms …. In other words, as innovation speed and quality increase, so does the operational and financial performance of firms …