Recent interdisciplinary research suggests that customer and technological competencies have a direct, unconditional effect on firms’ innovative performance. This study extends this stream of literature by considering the effect of organizational competencies. Results from a survey-research executed in the fast moving consumer goods industry suggest that firms that craft organizational competen...

Open innovation is proved to be determinant in the rationalization of sustainable ecosystems. Firms, universities, governments, user communities and overall environment are called contribute this dynamic process. This study aims a better understanding impact open on firms’ performance empirically assess whether university-industry collaborations complementary or substitutes for activity. Primar...

In the last decade the Indian auto industry has shown increasing levels of technological sophistication and significant growth. The Indian auto industry consists of local firms with indigenous design and development capability, well established global brands and has marketing presence in Indian as well as other emerging markets. This paper tracks capability development in the Indian auto indust...

We consider a duopoly competing in quantity, where firms can invest in both innovative and absorptive R&D to reduce their unit production cost, and where they benefit from free R&D spillovers between them. We analyze the case where firms act non cooperatively and the case where they cooperate by forming a research joint venture. We show that, in both modes of play, there exists a unique symmetr...

Business enterprises are playing a significant role in promoting China’s national capacity of innovation. However, information about China’s innovative activities is still very limited, especially at the micro level. This paper aims to investigate both the internal and external determinants that affect firms’ innovative behaviour by using a rich set of firm-level data and municipal-level data. ...

This study examines the differences in strategies and activities pursued by a sample of more-successful and less-successful group of growing small-and medium-sized enterprises. Amongst other matters, it examines different functional strategies--the importance of management, human resource practices, marketing, financing, and the innovativeness of the firm. Innovative activites are the most impo...

Sustainability of innovations reflects not only the economic aspect, but also the social and environmental concerns embedded on innovation, whilst dynamic capability indicates the sources of knowledge to achieve that sustainability. Hence, this paper places an emphasis on innovation as the means to add not only economic value, but also to the environment and society and also in capabilities tha...

We examine the relationship between fragmented intellectual property (IP) rights and innovative performance, taking into consideration the role played by in-licensing of IP. Controlling for a variety of firm and market characteristics, we find that firms facing more fragmented IP landscapes are more likely to report expenditures on in-licensing and for those firms that do incur license costs we...

Following an innovative approach, the effects of financial report quality on use trade credit in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are examined. This effect is considered a direct indirect way. Firstly, we analyze whether SMEs with low-quality information more likely to as resource. Secondly, investigate relationship between bank moderated by reports. For empirical analysis, sample Span...

The traditional indicators on innovation rely on the linear assumption that research leads to development, centring on the measurement of inputs and outputs. Based on the traditional innovation indicators, recent studies focused on the industrial innovation process at Latin America state that nowadays Latin American firms display a passive role at world’s innovative activities, characterised by...