Management Decision: Volume 51 Issue 6

Services and organisational innovation: the right mix for value creation

Jorge Gallego, Luis Rubalcaba, Christiane Hipp

The paper aims to discuss how services and service innovation are inter‐linked and support organisational innovation. In particular, the reorganisation of operations and the…

Clusters, networks and firms' product success: an empirical study

Elisa Giuliani

This paper aims to analyze the relationship between different kinds of networking and the performance of firms in industry clusters. In particular, it studies the importance of…

Public policy innovations: the case of undeclared work

Colin C. Williams, Jan Windebank, Marijana Baric, Sara Nadin

For many decades, European national governments sought to stamp out undeclared work using a repressive approach. In the changing economic context of declining employment…

Linking the unlinked: knowledge‐based perspective on non‐routine change

Paavo Ritala

Firms operating in contemporary hypercompetitive environments have to seek series of temporary advantages, sometimes requiring them to move beyond their current knowledge domains…

Perceived usefulness of innovation programs for high‐tech and low‐tech firms

José Antonio Belso‐Martínez, F. Xavier Molina‐Morales, Francisco Mas‐Verdu

Despite the sizable amount of previous research on this topic, little is known about the reasons why firms decide to start collaboration projects with innovation advanced service…

Network resources and the innovation performance: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms

Suli Zheng, Huiping Li, Xiaobo Wu

So as to understand the effects of network resources on firm innovation and performance within alliances and networks, this paper aims to examine the correlation between network…

Innovation in industrial districts: evidence from Italy

Marco Capasso, Andrea Morrison

The recent transformations brought about by the globalisation of markets have increased the competitive pressure for firms operating in traditional sectors, and in particular for…

An organization's ethical climate, innovation, and performance: Effects of support for innovation and performance evaluation

Byoung Kwon Choi, Hyoung Koo Moon, Wook Ko

The purpose of this study is to examine how an organization's ethical climate positively relates to its financial performance by considering an organization's innovation, a…

Innovation systems in motion: an early music case

Elena Castro‐Martínez, Albert Recasens, Fernando Jiménez‐Sáez

This study aims to provide an in‐depth understanding of the innovation system and the learning processes involved in a very specific cultural field: the production of early music.

Innovative firms and the urban/rural divide: the case of agro‐food system

Andrew Fearne, José María García Álvarez‐Coque, Teresa López‐García Usach Mercedes, Sánchez García

This paper aims to analyse the capacity of rural and urban spaces to promote innovation in the agro‐food firms. The purpose is to determine if the rural/urban division affects the…

Doing Research in Business and Management: An Essential Guide to Planning Your Project

Jasmina Berbegal‐Mirabent