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The strategic implication of knowledge attributes

Victer, Rogerio - In: Management Decision 52 (2014) 3, pp. 505-525

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to refine the resource-based theory of the firm. It intends to deal with key theoretical issues affecting the development of a model that empirically captures the relevance of knowledge to performance. The research task is not only to look inside the firm...

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Market, entrepreneurial, and technology orientations: impact on innovation and firm performance

Kocak, Akin; Carsrud, Alan; Oflazoglu, Sonyel - In: Management Decision 55 (2017) 2, pp. 248-270

(EOs) on both innovation and firm performance. It analyzes the mediating effects of incremental and radical innovation … empirically analyses the impact of strategic orientations on firm performance through innovation with a sample of 818 small and … technology orientation (TO) lead to radical innovation, while responsive MO strongly affects incremental innovation. EO impacts …

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Patenting motives, technology strategies, and open innovation

Holgersson, Marcus; Granstrand, Ove - In: Management Decision 55 (2017) 6, pp. 1265-1284

investigating the role of patents in external technology strategies and open innovation, showing that the motives to patent are … from open innovation upon the importance of 21 different motives to patent, with a specific focus on protection and …Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate firms’ motives to patent in general, and more …

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The uneasy transition from supply chains to ecosystems

Ben Letaifa, Soumaya - In: Management Decision 52 (2014) 2, pp. 278-295

Purpose – This paper uses the multidimensional definition of value – ecosystemic value – and employs lifecycle theory to identify the different stages of evolution of value-creation and -capture processes in an ecosystem. Specifically, the aim of this paper is to show the uneasy transition...

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Entrepreneurial team locus of control: diversity and trust

Saud Khan, Mohammad; J. Breitenecker, Robert; J. … - In: Management Decision 52 (2014) 6, pp. 1057-1081

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how internal locus of control (LOC) as a well-established entrepreneurial personality trait at team level impacts team performance (effectiveness and efficiency) in Austria. In addition, it investigates the interaction effects of LOC diversity...

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The effect of organizational learning and Web 2.0 on innovation

Zeng, Shouzhen; Gonzalez, Joaquin; Lobato, Clemente - In: Management Decision 53 (2015) 9, pp. 2060-2072

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationships between Web 2.0 adoption, innovation … – Results suggest that competitive advantage in the hotel industry requires firm strategies focusing on Web 2.0, innovation …. Innovation, which is the essence of competitive advantage, is a key concept for firms nowadays. …

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Value creation and value appropriation in innovation process in publicly-traded family firms

Memili, Esra; Fang, Hanqing Chevy; Welsh, Dianne H.B. - In: Management Decision 53 (2015) 9, pp. 1921-1952

regards to value creation and value appropriation in the innovation process by drawing upon the knowledge-based view (KBV) and … business, innovation, and KBV literature in several ways. While previous family business studies drawing upon resource … appropriation phases of innovation process. …

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Policies to promote entrepreneurial activity and economic performance

Castaño-Martínez, María-Soledad; Méndez-Picazo, … - In: Management Decision 53 (2015) 9, pp. 2073-2087

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effects of some political measures on entrepreneurship to promote economic growth and employment, specifically, R & D policies, training, elimination of administrative barriers, access to finance support and promotion of entrepreneurial...

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Online social networks as an enabler of innovation in organizations

Palacios-Marqués, Daniel; Merigó, José M.; … - In: Management Decision 53 (2015) 9, pp. 1906-1920

is a statistically significant positive relationship between online social networks and innovation capacity and that the … relationship between online social networks and firm performance is fully mediated by innovation capacity. In turn, the authors … find a statistically significant positive relationship between innovation capacity and performance in the hotel industry …

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Crowdsourcing, innovation and firm performance

Xu, Yejun; Ribeiro-Soriano, D. Enrique; Gonzalez-Garcia, J. - In: Management Decision 53 (2015) 6, pp. 1158-1169

significantly better than firms that do not. For that purpose the authors develop a model that relates crowdfunding, innovation … knowledge of the customers and transform it in innovation competences can obtain a better performance. This result has important … loyalty and retention. One way to improve innovation competences in a firm is to introduce information technology applications …

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