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Purpose – This paper aims to examine issues surrounding the competitiveness of the Visegrad countries that have recently joined the European Union, and in particular, to analyse a set of structural indicators that help assess the degree to which they are meeting the terms of the Lisbon...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to apply a stochastic Frontier production model to Canadian manufacturing industries, to investigate the sources of total factor productivity (TFP) growth. As productivity (growth) appears to be the single most important determinant of a nation's living...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the need for workplace innovation policies and practices in Europe … workplace innovation and trends in society explaining its emergence. The paper then presents and discusses the results of … of programme on workplace innovation. These programmes differ in size and governance. Evaluation research shows that …
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performance management. The objective of this paper is to reconsider the evidence from that study by drawing on innovation … findings using normative best practice, the dominant paradigm within performance management. Given that e‐business innovation … innovation adoption literature. Findings – The study highlights the importance of individual, cognitive, social and cultural …
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evidence on the appropriateness of using Roger's innovation attributes to measure different dimensions of attitude towards … individuals working in other industries. Second, the study's is carried out using a particular type of technological innovation … addressing the attributes of the innovation that will most likely concern its employees. Originality/value – This paper adds to …
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innovation on the HRM-organizational performance relationship, and to test HRM practices as mediator of the relationship between … innovation strategy and organizational innovation. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from 168 managers working in … UAE banks. A structured questionnaire containing standard scales of HRM practices, innovation strategy, organizational …
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine various technological innovation influencers (TIIs) in small … manufacturing firms. It introduces a study framework of technological innovation and evaluates the relevance of four TIIs to … innovation in small manufacturing firms. It introduces a study framework of technological innovation and examines the relevance …
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innovation capability and firm performance. Design/methodology/approach – The study was conducted through a web-based survey in … SMEs. Findings – Consistent with predictions, the link between innovation capability and firm performance is significant in … of SMEs through innovation capability. Practical implications – Using the results of this study, practitioners can …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a framework for improving innovation capability through performance … measurement in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The development of an organisation’s innovation capability is … considered increasingly important in the current literature. Developing such capability is essential, as innovation plays a key …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the theoretical development of the theme by the proposition of an industrial cluster typology method considering that the set of local variables related to the firms characteristics are essential for the strengthening of the interfirms’...
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