Management Decision: Volume 50 Issue 7

Entrepreneurship and open innovation in an emerging economy

Ian Chaston, Gregory J. Scott

The purpose of the paper is to examine the performance of firms in Peru in relation to entrepreneurial orientation and involvement in open innovation.

Constituents and outcomes of absorptive capacity – appropriability regime changing the game

Pia Hurmelinna‐Laukkanen

Recent research and practice have put a great deal of effort into finding efficient ways of managing and organizing to promote innovation within organizations. This study aims to…

Is social responsibility driven by industry or firm‐specific factors?

Rosamaria C. Moura‐Leite, Robert C. Padgett, Jose I. Galan

This study aims to revisit the relative importance of industry and firm level effects on corporate social responsibility (CSR), with the objective of clarifying their diverse…

Testing the Schumpeterian hypotheses on an open innovation framework

Francesco D. Sandulli, Jose Fernandez‐Menendez, Antonio Rodriguez‐Duarte, José Ignacio Lopez‐Sanchez

The purpose of this paper is to explore the unclear relationship between industry structure and open innovation.

Perception of entrepreneurial opportunity: a general framework

Maija Renko, Rodney C. Shrader, Mark Simon

Previous research has predominantly approached the concept of entrepreneurial opportunities from either one of two perspectives: opportunities exist as objective phenomena in the…

Characterizing disagreement and inconsistency in experts' judgments in the analytic hierarchy process

Shi‐Woei Lin, Ming‐Tsang Lu

Methods and techniques of aggregating preferences or priorities in the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) usually ignore variation or dispersion among experts and are vulnerable to…

Delphi method applied to horticultural cooperatives

Vanessa Campos‐Climent, Andreea Apetrei, Rafael Chaves‐Ávila

Agricultural cooperatives have been able to become a strong and consolidated organizational form, although the new challenges of globalization and trade liberalization require…

Brokering knowledge from universities to the marketplace: The role of knowledge transfer offices

Jasmina Berbegal‐Mirabent, Ferran Sabaté, Antonio Cañabate

This study aims to conceptualise the role of knowledge transfer offices (KTOs) as knowledge brokers (KBs) and identify which factors are most significantly related with their…

A simulation model with synchronization manufacturing stations

Feng‐Jyh Lin, Yi‐Min Chen

The aim of this paper is to develop an efficient analytical procedure to evaluate performance of the most general pull production systems particularly when multiple‐part‐types are…

Knowledge brokering for transference to the pilot's safety behavior

Yi‐Hsin Lin

This study aims to use organizational identification, organizational culture and safety culture as the intervening variables between safety mission statements and safety behavior…