considerations with business strategy has on different dimensions of competitiveness and innovation activity on the firm level. Its … and social performance on competitiveness and innovation activity. After presenting a theoretical framework based on … extant work, the paper introduces the research methods and variables. Subsequently results are presented for four different …

Lean Six Sigma represents a management approach for driving innovating processes inside a company in order to achieve … requirements of a company for its implementation and the strategy to obtain the maximum practical outcome are investigated …. Furthermore, we conduct a comparison analysis with the other methods of the total quality management and see why Lean Six Sigma is …

The features of innovation, flexibility and change mutually influence one another. Provided that change is perceived as … a feature leading to innovation, flexibility is the feature that enables it. Innovation cannot exist without change but … nonetheless each and every change leads to innovation. Flexibility is a necessary condition but not sufficient for the innovation …

, differentiation) or by internal ones such as quality management and self-managed teams. On the basis of data from 602 large firms …. Specifically it was found that firms using self managed teams, total quality management and employee participation are more likely … literature suggests that these choices are influenced by either external strategy considerations (i.e. diversification …

parts to be relevant when formulating strategies and plans for the company’s innovation programme. These eight criterion …This paper highlights how the European Business Excellence Model can be adapted to innovation when formulating … strategies and plans. The Business Excellence Model is too general to be applied directly to innovation, and the authors find …

be built into each company’s management system in order to become it’s main force. In this study, the author was trying …Many scientists tried to explain ‘innovation’ but this term has a lot of explanations. Producers implementing … innovation processes are having chance to survive in demanding markets. New ideas are deciding on the policies and the rate of …