among managers and employees. Despite the relevance of intraorganizational networks, past research on SMEs, however, was … focused mainly on the interorganizational level of analysis. To cover this gap, we map ego networks of senior managers in SMEs … study shows that these social networks are an essential driver of knowledge integration and innovation. …

's core business and explorative inventions. It implies that managers diversify their innovation portfolios and decrease …We investigate how CEO's risk incentive (vega) affects firm innovation. To establish causality, we exploit compensation … identification tests indicate a positive and causal effect of CEOs' vega on innovation activities. Furthermore, dampened managerial …

of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type …

consumer contexts in European countries show that culture has a significant effect on innovation diffusion and consumer … innovativeness. In the present research we focus on adoption intentions of individual managers operating in a business … national culture. Moreover, this effect seems stronger for the relatively newer and more expensive innovation. …

This paper explores whether the manager’s physical office work environment can stimulate the manager’s creativity. A … total of 60 managers from a large manufacturing company participated in the study. They rated the creativity potential and … good interior design of manager’s office environment could stimulate a manager’s creativity and could therefore contribute …

consumer contexts in European countries show that culture has a significant effect on innovation diffusion and consumer … innovativeness. In the present research we focus on adoption intentions of individual managers operating in a business … national culture. Moreover, this effect seems stronger for the relatively newer and more expensive innovation. …

Analysing the relationship between firms' openness to external knowledge and their innovation performance is nothing … focus of this paper. Using unique micro-level innovation data, it is shown, as the existing literature suggests, that firms …. However, innovative firms that exploit external knowledge do not necessarily enjoy greater innovation benefits than those that …

firm's environmental innovation performance. However, the literature suggests that R&D collaboration is not always … beneficial. Therefore, a more elaborated analysis of the effects of R&D collaborations on a firm's environmental innovation … a firm's environmental innovation performance. In addition, this paper addresses the question of whether the diversity …

innovation while the mere size of the universities is unimportant. Differences in the effect on innovative output can be found …

market mechanism. As a response, public instruments have been implemented to stimulate private innovation activities. The … Establishment Panel and apply various microeconometric methods to estimate the effect of public measures on innovation activities of …