develop a conceptual model of the relationship between accreditation and innovation activities. We find that hospitals engaged … effect of accreditation on incremental process and product innovation. For larger hospitals, obtaining accreditation was a … decision-making to seek accreditation and pursue innovation activities, whether accreditation and innovation activities help …

question we examine empirically refers to the possibility that an economic crisis could affect innovation performance through … associated with ICT-enabled innovation performance. This is the third research question of this paper. Our study is based on firm … decreased due to the crisis. Further, statistically significant negative relationship between ICT-enabled product innovation and …

differences in risk management, perception of innovation, organization of the business model. The novelty of this study comes from … the comparative approach of the two areas in terms of innovation, sustainability and risk management, by highlighting the …

, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity … associated with a non-systematic resort to design, a higher innovation-based performance is coupled with an increasingly more … of introducing product/process innovations, but that the ensuing economic performance is rather associated to the role of …