This paper presents the results of a survey administered across 24 countries that examines innovation in manufacturing firms by adopting Hofstede's national cultural framework. The purpose of this study is to test the validity of the "culture-specific" argument as an explanatory construct for...

Geographical proximity between firms is often believed to favour cooperation, mutual learning, knowledge creation as well as innovation. From Marshall onwards, study after study has demonstrated that both cooperation and successful innovations arise from geographically proximate clusters....

For many managers and professionals today, to work is to travel. Business travel is now so interwoven with doing business that its apparent continued growth is a matter of common sense. Yet paradoxically, these same business travellers are also intensive users of communication technology (phone...