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Learning from foreign operation modes : the virtuous path for innovation

Villar, Cristina; Pla-Barber, José; Ghauri, Pervez N. - In: Business research quarterly : BRQ 23 (2020) 2, pp. 159-171

organizational innovation as well as overall performance. Our results, which are derived from a sample of 132 SMEs active in … organizational innovation. …

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Exploring the evolution of innovation networks in science-driven and scale-intensive industries : new evidence from a stochastic actor-based approach

Buchmann, Tobias; Hain, Daniel; Kudic, Muhamed; … - 2014

Our primary goal is to analyse the drivers of evolutionary network change processes by using a stochastic actor-based simulation approach. We contribute to the literature by combining two unique datasets, concerning the German laser and automotive industry, between 2002 and 2006 to explore...

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Innovation and productivity in services and manufacturing : the role of ICT investment

Aboal, Diego; Tacsir, Ezequiel - 2015

ultimately affect innovation and productivity in Uruguayan service firms compared to manufacturing firms. The results show that …-technological (e.g., organizational or marketing) innovations. ICT and other innovation investments are positively associated with …

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Search balance and product and process innovations

Backfisch, Martin - 2014 - Version: Sunday, December 07, 2014

Firms' search for external knowledge is one aspect of knowledge integration in the innovation process. The literature … has investigated innovation and the breadth of search in different information channels. We introduce the concept of … search balance reflecting the heterogeneity of a firm's knowledge base. Results from German Community Innovation Survey data …

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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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Design, innovation and performance in European firms

Montresor, Sandro; Vezzani, Antonio - 2017

, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity … associated with a non-systematic resort to design, a higher innovation-based performance is coupled with an increasingly more …

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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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Study on the open innovation practices in Romanian SMEs

Olaru, Marieta; Dinu, Vasile; Keppler, Timo; Mocan, Bogdan - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 17 (2015), pp. 1129-1141

“Integrated system for innovation management in SMEs”, code PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-1319, under way at the Business Administration … Romanian SMEs in adopting the open innovation principles. In order to reach this objective, the authors analysed the available … statistical data for the period 2002-2012 concerning the trend of the SMEs’ weight in the total innovation businesses compared to …

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The role of firms' location on persistency of various types of innovation : to be presented in Uddevalla Symposium 2016 : Theme: VIII: Knowledge, firms and locations in the era of...

Tavassoli, Sam; Karlsson, Charlie - 2016

This paper analyzes the role of regional characteristics on innovation persistency among firms. Using five waves of the … Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behavior of firms over a ten-year period, i.e. between 2002 …

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Innovation and institutional ownership

Aghion, Philippe; Van Reenen, John; Zingales, Luigi - 2010

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to … be due to endogenous selection. -- Career Concerns ; Innovation ; Institutional Ownership ; Productivity and R&D …

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