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The impact of R&D teams’ gender diversity on innovation outputs
December 16, 2014 Editor 0
The impact of R&D teams’ gender diversity on innovation outputs Juan Fernández Sastre International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Vol. 24, No. 1 (2015) pp. 142 – 162 Drawing from a sample of Spanish manufacturing firms, this paper examines the effect of R&D teams’ gender diversity on different innovation outputs: products, services, process and […]
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User Innovation in Techniques: A Case Study Analysis in the Field of Medical Devices
November 2, 2014 Editor 0
Users are the primary source of new techniques, i.e. systematic activities by which a complex task is accomplished. Even though user-generated techniques are a pervasive phenomenon which can be observed in many different contexts, existing research on user innovation has focused on product and service innovations. We focus on this important area of user innovation […]
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When the Recipe Is More Important Than the Ingredients: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of Service Innovation Configurations
March 30, 2014 Editor 0
Service innovation is a primary source of competitive advantage and a research priority. However, empirical evidence about the impact of innovativeness on new service adoption is inconclusive. A plausible explanation is that service innovation has thus far been studied using new product frameworks that do not fully capture the complexity of new service assessments by […]
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Soft Underbelly of Business Model Innovation
February 11, 2014 Editor 0
The Center for Service Innovation website noted that in spite of more than a decade’s interest in business models and the innovation, their specific leadership and organization design challenges are only beginning to be understood. What is specific about these challenges is that top-management needs a map of the existing business model and the one […]
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Product innovation processes and the trade-off between product innovation performance and business performance
February 3, 2014 Editor 0
Abstract Purpose – This paper is concerned with the management and organization of product innovation processes, and how innovation performance relates to business performance. The underlying rationale is that encouraging firms to innovate will lead to a better business performance. Design/methodology/approach – This study leverages a data set of 99 medium-sized technology firms in Sweden. […]
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Product innovation processes and the trade-off between product innovation performance and business performance
November 12, 2013 Editor 0
Abstract Purpose – This paper is concerned with the management and organization of product innovation processes, and how innovation performance relates to business performance. The underlying rationale is that encouraging firms to innovate will lead to a better business performance. Design/methodology/approach – This study leverages a data-set of 99 medium-sized technology firms in Sweden. The […]
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