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Comments that few service firms are sufficiently prepared to meet the challenge of service innovation. Reviews existing …
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Considers the relevance of creativity to marketing and advertising. States that since creativity involves risk, organizations may be actually penalizing creativity or rewarding its avoidance. Discusses common barriers to creativity in organizations which can be said to be bureaucratic. Suggests...
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Maintains that a core issue for the international competitiveness of US corporations is that of the innovation …
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customer relationships and thus their service innovation processes. Originality/value This study identifies and analyzes …
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Purpose – This paper aims to illustrate how innovation typologies may lead to cause-related marketing (CRM) success … underpin CRM success, undertakes an innovation theory application in CRM and examines its theoretical and practical … connections between five innovation types and CRM success; enrichment of the innovation and CRM literature by developing a …
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Purpose – This paper aims to link academic classifications of service innovation with practical activities by firms to … detail the essence of service innovation. Design/methodology/approach – This research employs both qualitative and … in Taiwan, to gather practitioners ' perspectives on service innovation. A content analysis details specific forms of …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine what the effects of acquisition are on R&D patterns. Design/methodology/approach – This paper tests whether the actual post‐acquisition R&D intensity of the combined firm deviated from the predicted R&D intensity, where the predicted...
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innovation policy and capital structure decisions as firms deal effectively with risk and uncertainty. Practical implications … options logic is adopted to explain how effective risk management capabilities improve performance and how innovation and … investment in innovation and lower financial leverage. Research limitations/implications – The analysis is based on a sample of …
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investigate the relationship between corporate political strategy and innovation in the manufacturing industry in the USA. Design …/methodology/approach – The paper proposes two competing views on the relationship between corporate political strategy and innovation building on … perspective, suggesting that corporate political strategy is complementary to innovation. The paper also tests for the moderating …
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Purpose – Firms that pursue invention face special conditions that heighten the potential conflict between managers and shareholders. High R&D spending increases the information asymmetry between managers and shareholders because the invention process is rooted in tacit knowledge. Because...
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