The Circular Economy concept has emerged to face current unsustainable economic trends. Circularity requires to go beyond mainstream linear business models in favour of new design strategies and production processes able to support an efficient use and a continuous flow of resources. Clarifying...

This study investigates the links between organizational culture, the use of open innovation sources and the performance of SMEs. The main hypothesis of the study is that a special type of organizational culture (termed innovative culture), which fosters creativity, learning and inter-employee...

This paper highlights some of the results of the study carried out by the authors within the research project “Integrated system for innovation management in SMEs”, code PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-1319, under way at the Business Administration Research Centre of the Bucharest University of...

The present research investigates the contribution of environmental innovation to firms' competitive advantage through the case of medium and large-sized firms operating in Greece. Due to the growing trend of environmental innovation in Greece and a consequent increase in the research interest,...

In the last years attention has increased to the eco-innovation topic. Empirical studies have demonstrated that innovating firms grow faster, have higher productivity and are more profitable than their less innovative counterparts (Geroski et al., 1993; Roper and Hewitt-Dundas, 1998). Drawing upon a...

Few studies on open innovation (OI) have addressed OI practices in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and how their use of OI and resulting benefits differ from large enterprises. The lack of resources in SMEs to engage in looking outward is said to be a barrier to OI, but at the same...

This paper highlights some of the results of the study carried out by the authors within the research project “Integrated system for innovation management in SMEs”, code PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-1319, under way at the Business Administration Research Centre of the Bucharest University of...

Open innovation has of late emerged as a popular innovation management concept that advocates opening up of the innovation processes in firms. Despite researchers writing against open innovation being a new concept, research into open innovation activities of firms, as evidenced by the growing...

Despite the increasing attention to the open innovation, the effect of strategic capabilities as antecedents to implementation of open innovation in ‘low and medium-low technology’ (LMT) firms in technologically less advanced countries is largely unexplored. This paper strives to fill this...