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...

This study aims to reveal the complex mechanism influencing technology standard competitiveness (TSC) in the artificial intelligence industry. Compared with research using traditional linear models, this research adopts the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) method to obtain the...

This paper calculates the efficiency of senior residences in Saragossa and province by means of the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The study of the efficiency has been divided in two stages: in the first one the efficiency of the productive system of senior residences is calculated and...

This study analyse the technical efficiency in terms of innovation of the firms in the service sector in the Uruguayan economy. Therefore, we use data from the 2010-2012 Innovation Activities Survey of the National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII). In a first stage, we estimate the...

Immer mehr Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher greifen zu ökologischen und fair gehandelten Produkten, mehr und mehr Läden erweitern ihr Sortiment um entsprechende Produktalternativen. Doch nicht immer steht dahinter ein echtes Interesse an alternativen Produktionsprozessen. Ein Teil der...

This study investigated seven core subjects of ISO 26000 to explore the way in which new product development (NPD) links corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy with product development planning. This study thoroughly discussed the implementation of policies that achieve social...

The knowledge from external sources has been recognized as critical for improving the capabilities of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to be competitive on the global market. The aim of this paper is to explore main factors which affect SMEs' choice of a dominant source for acquiring...

Data governance forms the basis of efficient data management within companies and across company boundaries. In practice, however, there is no clear and uniform definition of data governance and its components. In order to provide a comprehensive overview of data governance, to reveal previous...

Innovationen entstehen zunehmend durch vernetzte Forschung und Kooperationen, die über Unternehmens-, Branchen- und Ländergrenzen hinweg erfolgen. Standards können dazu einen wichtigen Beitrag leisten, indem sie einen reibungslosen Austausch von Daten ermöglichen und die Vernetzung...

Die Erhebung, die Analyse und die Verwertung von Daten sind zentrale Treiber der digitalen Wirtschaft. Aber auch in Branchen, die nicht primär der Digitalwirtschaft zuzuordnen sind, nimmt die Bedeutung von Daten für den Unternehmenserfolg zu. Grundlage für eine effiziente Datenbewirtschaftung...