European Journal of Innovation Management: Volume 23 Issue 3

Cooperation as a vehicle for innovation: a study of the effects of firm size and industry type

Silveli Cristo-Andrade, Mário José Franco

Based on firms’ need to remain competitive and dynamic in a scenario of constant change, the purpose of this paper is to compare the actors involved in cooperation for innovation…

The finance of innovation in Africa

Misraku Molla Ayalew, Zhang Xianzhi, Demis Hailegebreal Hailu

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how firms in developing countries finance innovation. Notably, the study seeks to investigate whether innovative firms exhibit…

Decision making under uncertainty? R&D activity and market value during financial crisis

Christos Sofronas, Fragiskos Archontakis, Palie Smart

In the research & development (R&D) and innovation management literature, the question of whether or not to perform research in the private sector is always a pertinent one…

Transformational leadership and innovative work behavior: The role of motivation to learn, task complexity and innovation climate

Bilal Afsar, Waheed Ali Umrani

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of transformational leadership on employee’s innovative work behavior, and the mediating role of motivation to learn, and…

Converging resources and co-producing for innovation: evidence from healthcare services

Sanjeewani Sehgal, Garima Gupta

The purpose of this paper is to examine healthcare organizations for the improvements in their existing services (incremental innovation) as well as for the new service…

The impact of R&D workforce diversity on firm’s performance in internal and external R&D

Sung Joo Bae, Sangyun Han

How should managers organize their R&D workforce in order to maximize the benefit of internal R&D and R&D outsourcing strategy? The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects…

Corporate incubators as knowledge brokers between business units and ventures: A systematic review and avenues for future research

Michael Kötting

Through digitization and globalization, corporate incubators have gained new relevance as tool to foster innovation within established companies. Although many studies address…

An empirical investigation of innovation process in Indian pharmaceutical companies

Usha Lenka, Minisha Gupta

The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework exploring innovation process in research and development units of organizations. Research and development (R&D…

External knowledge search paths in open innovation processes of small and medium enterprises

Preecha Chaochotechuang, Farhad Daneshgar, Stefania Mariano

The purpose of this paper is to advance knowledge by exploring how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) search for external knowledge in their open innovation processes, and how…