In hyper-competitive markets, innovation is critical for the growth of market-driven companies. An examination of case studies of highly competitive global companies in the fast fashion sector, reveals that detailed understanding of the market, deriving from direct management of their stores,...

Academic debate on the strategic importance of women corporate directors is widely recognized and still open. However, most corporate boards have only one woman director or a small minority of women directors. Therefore, they can still be considered as tokens. This article addresses the...

To understand why some patents get licensed and others do not we estimate a portfolio of firm- and patent-level determinants for why a particular licensor's patent was licensed over all technologically similar patents held by other licensors. Using data for licensed biopharmaceutical patents, we...

This paper aimed to evaluate the product innovation as a resource in the internationalization process of an emerging multinational (EMN), the Brazilian company Taurus in the North American market. Through the lenses of the Resource Based View (RBV), we discuss the role of product innovation, the...

Purpose– This article aims to investigate the nature and characteristics of business model elements required for successful service innovation. The authors examine which unique resources and capabilities product-centric firms should develop and deploy to pursue service...

Global Innovation Index Report published by INSEAD, Cornell University and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in partnership with other organizations provides an overview of innovative growth of around 128 economies and provides rank (index) of each country annually which is known...

Global Competitiveness Indexing (GCI) report published by World Economic Forum (WEF) provides an overview of competitive performance of around 140 economies on annual basis based on approximately 114 indicators.The ranking of individual countries based on their competitiveness is known as Global...

Being innovative is a vital capability of organisations and societies nowadays. Companies run innovation projects as part of their strategies and assign significant resources to them. Moreover, there is a tendency to manage projects in an innovative, for example agile, way. Therefore, it is...