The industrial district is a model of production mainly related to medium and small cities characterized by industrial specializations in small and medium enterprises. However, the mapping of the phenomenon in countries as Italy and Spain suggest that industrial districts are also present in...

Spanish Abstract: El objetivo del artículo es investigar el efecto del comportamiento exportador de la empresa sobre el compromiso del propietario-gerente con la innovación. Para ello, se considera la teoría de aprendizaje como marco de referencia. El estudio utiliza información a partir de...

Latin America and the Caribbean is recognized as a region of entrepreneurs, as evidenced by the high amount of ventures per capita; however, just a few number of companies export and most of them show a weak growth and little innovation. Using information from the GEM database – Colombia 2010...

Globalization pushes companies to operate abroad and a successful innovative posture could be a key to access the export market in a global economy. In turn, innovativeness reflects the tendency to new-idea generation, novelty, and creative processes, which may be explained by experiences and...

Purpose - This paper investigates how past performance changes, prior CEO replacements and changes in the chairperson impact CEO turnover in public and large private businesses. Design/methodology/approach - We analyze 1,679 CEO replacements documented in a sample of 1,493 Spanish public and...