The objective of this study is to investigate the sensitivity of the estimated relationship between innovation and firm performance. In doing so, we rely on a knowledge production function approach and carry out comparisons in a number of respects. The sensitivity analysis is based on the...

The concept of knowledge has gained in interest since industrialized economics have induced a shift in importance from labor, capital and natural resources towards intellectual resources. This study investigates how the management of knowledge influences the innovation performance of a firm....

The resource-based view of the firm is characterized by the idea that capital, labor and natural resources are the factors influencing the economic growth of a company. In the last decades, the awareness of knowledge as an important driver of economic growth has increased, and led to the...

The 2018 Global Innovation Index ranks Pakistan 118 out of 126 in innovation. One of the main reasons why developing countries, such as Pakistan, fail to innovate is their improvisation of astute and concurrent knowledge. This study explores the contemporary hurdles that lead to manufacturing...

This paper examines the use of innovation protection mechanisms in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). By starting from a knowledge-based view, the aim is to achive a better understanding of how the role perceived by innovating SMEs of patent protection and the long-term retention of qualified...

This study aims to investigate the differential effects of internationalization and knowledge integration on the innovation capabilities and firm performance of international small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). A K-means cluster analysis is performed on quantitative survey data from a...