Firms are increasingly pressured to introduce green innovations. The literature suggests that – given their high complexity collaborating with external stakeholders is a key ingredient in the effective development of innovations (GI), even more so than for ‘traditional’ types innovation. While there evidence firms engage one partner at once and not all those collaborations result higher innovat...

This paper addresses two research questions: (1) How do firms innovate their business models to deal with the economic, environmental and social aspects of sustainability, interconnections? (2) managers design process toward more sustainable innovative models? Starting from triple-layered canvas as a theoretical framework, pattern matching technique is used compare that empirical observed. The ...

The aim of this paper is to analyze whether a number of firm and industry characteristics, as well as media exposure, are potential determinants of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure practices by Spanish listed firms. Empirical studies have shown that CSR disclosure activism varies across companies, industries, and time (Gray et al., Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 8...

recently many researches have studied technological innovation capabilities (tics) and their impacts on firm’s competitive performance in the field of manufacturing industries. this paper pursued yam et al. (2004) framework to study the relevance of tics and firm's competitive performance in a mainly-service-based industry in iran (ict). empirical data were collected through a questionnaire...

Credit constraints are more frequent among growth companies with large investment opportunities. For the same reason, profit taxes may harm innovative firms more than standard ones. This paper develops a model of heterogeneous firms where an endogenous share opts for innovation and faces credit constraints in the subsequent expansion phase. We emphasize four results: (i) R&D subsidies not only ...

This paper focuses on the questions to what extent agglomeration effects and localized inter-organizational linkages influence different types of innovative performance of firms. Doing so adds to the relatively scarce firm-level literature regarding the role of regional environment for the innovative performance of firms by disentangling the often conflated effects of agglomeration effects and ...

This paper explores the concept of knowledge networks in order to disclose how firms are able to increase innovative performance as a result of network structure and network content, which concern how firms connect with network partners (network structure), what the essence of exchange is for firms to acquire knowledge in the network (knowledge heterogeneity), and why firms need to cooperate wi...