This study aims to identify the factors that contribute to the building of a firm’s innovative capacity and to assess the way in which this contributes to our understanding of how much this contributes to improvements in the firm’s performance. A conceptual model is proposed consisting of five separate dimensions: the firm; the entrepreneur; the external business environment; the firm’s innovat...

the performance evaluation and efficiency measurement of software companies and compare them together as a set of knowledge-based activities due to the unknown of internal processes and stages common to these companies and ignoring these processes in performance evaluation by data envelopment analysis models and how to consider these processes and procedures for calculating efficiency of each s...

this research was conducted to investigation organizational climate role in entrepreneurial r&d; in agricultural technology management that was implemented as a correlation research by using casual model. statistical population of the study was consisted of 2768 agricultural research experts in iran, one out of each six regional groups of provinces was randomly selected and 320 researchers were...

access to knowledge resources such as human capital and managing these capitals is the main element of attaining competitive advantages in a knowledge-based economy, in a manner that needs a distinctive paradigm of human resource management. the necessity of adopting diverse human resource practices for driving innovation has resulted in doing current research aimed at considering the impact of...

This study investigates differences in the policies being pursued by innovative and non-innovative firms. It focuses on a broad group of strategies--in marketing, finance, production, management and human resources and asks whether there are key areas in which the strategies being followed by innovative and non-innovative firms differ. It also ask how the activities of firms in each of these ar...

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 from...