The knowledge economy, learning and innovation have moved to the foreground both in regional and industrial policies in the past decade. Concrete policies were shaped in the past by the linear innovation model (focus on R&D and technology diffusion), and more recently, by “best practice models” of interactive innovation derived from high techand well performing regions. These were often applied...

Environmental management studies have proposed that firms can achieve substantial cost advantages over competitors and enhance their competitive positions by implementing an environmental system (EMS). This study further investigates strategic orientation (customer, competitor, innovation orientation) focuses on the effect of EMSs eco-innovation; it also examines mediating role in relationship ...

This paper deals with “gendering innovation”, the purpose of exploring entrepreneurial spaces innovation among Italian farms managed by women. More precisely, hypothesis is that entrepre-neurial orientation has to be considered engine adoption in different rural contexts, creating new for innovation. The research grounded on primary sources using a questionnaire administered sample women farmer...

There are inherent tensions between innovation and the focus on process in modern project management (PM) Efforts to manage processes increase short-term efficiency but may decrease the capacity to harness opportunities for innovation and so have detrimental longer-term effects on organisational prosperity. This paper investigates the ways in which these tensions affect information systems (IS)...

This study provides an analysis of the existing relationship between culture, entrepreneurship, and orientation towards innovation at national level. Drawing on creation Artificial Neural Network, using a sample 37 countries, this paper aims to catalogue each country as innovation-oriented or non-innovation-oriented considering six cultural dimensions proposed by Hofstede’s model country´s entr...

Business process orientation (BPO) supports business process management by reorienting employees’ focus from functional performance to customer value adding. While it is generally believed that BPO improves various aspects of organizational performance, there has been a lack of empirical evidence. The results of this study showed that BPO significantly influences organizational innovation perfo...

Digital transformation is important not only in the manufacturing sector but can also help service-based organizations to achieve competitive advantage. Therefore, this study has examined impact of digital on advantage and mediating role entrepreneurial orientation. Innovation capability considered a moderator between The data for research were gathered from service companies Jordan, AMOS was u...

Recently, there has been a keen research interest in exploring the relationship between market orientation and new product development. The empirical results, however, are mixed, and this means that we do not fully understand these linkages. Furthermore, research concerning the antecedents of new-to-the-world products has focused on the study of a single product. However, it is of obvious inter...