CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees’ ideas enhances small firms’ innovation performance. A Heckman selection model … on 305 small firms shows that not only CEO’s and managers’, but also non-managerial employees’ ideas contribute to … innovation performance. However, contributions depend heavily on the individuals’ area of expertise and on whether product or …

We examine the relationship of financial expert CEO on firm innovation. Using CEO individual level and firm-level data … significant negative impact on firm innovation. A financial expert CEO causes 17.5% decrease in firm innovation level. We argue … make a separate examination about this impact on innovation that acquired from outsiders …

ability and innovative output is weaker for older CEOs and managers who stay in the same job for longer, suggesting a … managers more positively, suggesting that equity holders deem better skilled managers more effective at converting innovative …

CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees' ideas enhances small firms' innovation performance. A Heckman selection model … on 305 small firms shows that not only CEO's and managers', but also non-managerial employees' ideas contribute to … innovation performance. However, contributions depend heavily on the individuals' area of expertise and on whether product or …

CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees' ideas enhances small firms' innovation performance. A Heckman selection model … on 305 small firms shows that not only CEO's and managers', but also non-managerial employees' ideas contribute to … innovation performance. However, contributions depend heavily on the individuals' area of expertise and on whether product or …

innovation and product innovation using the PLS-SEM technique. The data for this study is collected from 150 managers of … managers' skills, technology adaptation, process innovation, and product innovation are positively and significantly related to … adaptation are positively and significantly related to process and product innovation. Indirect and total effects show that …

innovation also when referring to intra-country differences. …

This paper assesses the extent to which cooperation impacts innovation performance of firms in rural regions … firms. For policymakers, this implies that an exclusive focus on R&D-based regional innovation policies may be neither …

We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …, micro firms benefit in a comparable way from innovation processes as larger firms, as they are similarly able to increase …

This paper examines the links between innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For this purpose, we use … micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and estimate an augmented … structural model. Our results indicate that innovation in service enterprises is linked to higher productivity. In all three …