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Auswirkungen der Wirtschaftskrise auf die Innovationstätigkeit der Unternehmen in Deutschland
Rammer, Christian - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 80 (2011) 3, pp. 13-33
The massive economic crisis 2008/09 had substantial impacts on the innovation activities of the German economy. The … loss in sales and profits resulted in a sharp decline of innovation expenditure. While capital expenditure for new products … and improved processes were cut substantially, R&D budgets basically remained unchanged. Firms with innovation and R …
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Innovation and service outsourcing : an empirical analysis based on data from Tunisian firms
Sdiri, Hanen; Ayadi, Mohamed - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 5 (2016) 21, pp. 1-13
innovation by using a sample of 108 Tunisian service firms. Specifically, we are interested in the domestic outsourcing of … innovation. This suggests that outsourcing allows Tunisian service firms to create value, increase flexibility and improve the …
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Exploring links between engaging customers in value co-creation and product innovativeness
Zaborek, Piotr; Mazur, Jolanta - In: International journal of management and economics 53 (2017) 3, pp. 82-106
The study examines the hypothesis that firms engaging customers in value co-creation tend to display more innovativeness. As such, it is one of the few quantitative studies on the link between these two concepts. Customer engagement in value co-creation was operationalized as a multiple scale...
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Impact of social responsibility on the quality of company governance
Jurić, Ana; Zupanc, Aleksandra; Štrukelj, Tjaša - In: Naše gospodarstvo : NG 65 (2019) 2, pp. 21-29
The central aim of the article is company governance, i.e., researching governance of a company that does not want to be only financially successful but also direct its governance toward socially responsible governance. The article begins with the definition of "theoretical backgrounds," in...
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Strategy, corporate culture, structure and operational processes as the context for the innovativeness of an organization
Szczepańska-Woszczyna, Katarzyna - In: Foundations of Management : the journal of Warsaw … 10 (2018) 1, pp. 33-44
The paper refers to relationships between the innovativeness of an organization and its selected determinants such as strategy, corporate culture, structure and operational processes. Research was conducted among 200 managers at the top, middle and operational levels of management (200 companies...
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Business model adaptation through inclusion of environmental sustainability measures
Krmela, Aleš; Tesařová, Mariana - In: Trends economics and management 14 (2020) 35, pp. 59-71
Purpose of the article: The article aims at understanding and description of how and why the business model (BM) of an incumbent manufacturing B2B company adapts, collaboratively with a dominant customer, through measures leading to an improved environmental sustainability performance. The...
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Evaluation of open leadership and innovation orientation on employees and culture of the organization
Sonmez Cakir, Fatma; Adiguzel, Zafer - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 20 (2019), pp. 432-445
In the production sector, where innovation and creativity activities are intensely realized, organizations need not … the competitive environment in terms of both leadership and innovation activities. In terms of leadership, institutions … leadership, innovation orientation, employee creativity, organizational culture and process management variables. In this study …
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Towards a taxonomy of idea generation techniques
Wang, Kai - In: Foundations of Management : the journal of Warsaw … 11 (2019) 1, pp. 65-80
Business organizations often need to manage creative work. An important way of promoting creative work is to use idea generation techniques (IGTs). Numerous IGTs have been developed, and choosing from such a big pool of candidates can be demanding, which is further complicated by the elusiveness...
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Knowledge and innovation : essential factors for overcoming the current economic impasse
Țigănașu, Ramona - In: CES working papers 2 (2010) 3, pp. 5-16
development; it is about innovation, without which competitiveness is unthinkable. Romania is part of the "catching-up" group of … countries in innovation. In order to assume new responsibilities and to prepare for the competition with other European … analyze the situation of innovation at EUlevel and to see at what chapters our authorities must to work harder to equalize the …
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Innovation in small and medium-sized companies : knowledge integration mechanisms and the role of top managers' networks
Fliaster, Alexander; Golly, Tanja - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 25 (2014) 2, pp. 125-147
study shows that these social networks are an essential driver of knowledge integration and innovation. …
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