Clusters, networks, and firm innovativeness

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey G. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Firm Innovativeness

Bridging the Gender Gap in Employment Growth

2005 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 259-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Strohmeyer ◽  
Vartuhi Tonoyan
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
Employment Growth ◽  
Occupational Sex Segregation ◽  
Feedback Effects ◽  
Know How ◽  
Process Innovations ◽  
Apprenticeship Training ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Firm Innovativeness ◽  
Product And Process

Analysing 1,055 female- and 2,207 male-owned businesses in Germany, the authors found that the former underperformed compared with the latter in terms of employment growth and firm innovativeness. Controlling for endogeneity, ie feedback effects between employment growth and innovation, it was demonstrated that the lower employment growth in women-owned businesses was mainly due to women's lower commitment to product and process innovations, a phenomenon that is referred to in this study as the ‘female–male innovation gap’. The female–male innovation gap apparently goes back to occupational sex segregation, with women populating occupations and choosing fields of study or apprenticeship training that are less technical or technology-oriented and thus less likely to provide them with important resources (eg technical know-how) and favourable conditions needed for the development and implementation of product and process innovations.

APPLYING ANSOFF’S GROWTH STRATEGY MATRIX TO INNOVATION CLASSIFICATION

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (04) ◽  
pp. 1850039
Author(s):  
TUGBA GURCAYLILAR-YENIDOGAN ◽  
SAFAK AKSOY
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Clusters ◽  
Performance Outcomes ◽  
Growth Strategy ◽  
Production Performance ◽  
Market Growth ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Firm Innovativeness ◽  
Innovation Capacity ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Manage Innovation

This study aims to determine innovation capacity of a firm and to investigate the correlations between performance outcomes and innovation types. In this study, a questionnaire-based survey was conducted to classify firms with respect to different novelty degrees of innovation activities in developing new products and the magnitude of market impact shortly after innovations have been introduced and then appraise the association between innovation types and performance outcomes. The data obtained from the Turkish industrial clusters show that the higher firm innovativeness in product and market with a wide-spread diffusion effect of innovations, the greater is the market and production performance. To the best of our knowledge, this study is one of the few studies applying the product-market growth matrix to determine/manage innovation portfolio of firms.

scholarly journals ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING CAPABILITY AND FIRM INNOVATIVENESS OF MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN THE SOUTH-SOUTH OF NIGERIA

2021 ◽  
pp. 24-44
Author(s):  
Agadah Mienipre ◽  
Omoankhanlen Akhigbe
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Rank Order ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
The South ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Learning Capability ◽  
Firm Innovativeness ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
System Orientation

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Organizational learning capability and firm innovativeness of manufacturing firms in the south-south of Nigeria. The study offers an empirical assessment of the relationship as based on its model – 4 null hypothetical statements are put forward. The research design adopted was the cross-sectional survey and data for this study was generated from managers and key personnel of the target organizations using structured questionnaire. The study adopted the Spearman’s rank order correlation in its assessment for the bivariate correlations between dimensions of organizational learning capability (managerial commitment and system orientation) and measures of firm innovativeness (propensity to create new products and propensity to create new processes). The findings reveal significant relationships between dimensions of organizational learning capability and the measures of firm innovativeness. In conclusion, it was stated that organizational learning capability, through dimensions such as managerial commitment and system orientation, offers the necessary support, orientation and knowledge control for enhancing firm innovativeness.

scholarly journals INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL TOP MANAGEMENT TEAM (TMT) NETWORKING FOR ADVANCING FIRM INNOVATIVENESS

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 311-325
Author(s):  
Sri Sarah Maznah Mohd Salleh ◽  
Muhammad Fareed ◽  
Rushami Zien Yusoff ◽  
Rohaizah Saad
Keyword(s):  
Top Management Team ◽  
Management Team ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Firm Innovativeness

The State as a Vehicle of Technological Change: Economic Openness, Technological Catching-up, and Indigenous Innovation in Chinese Firms

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-407
Author(s):  
Junmin Wang
Keyword(s):  
State Ownership ◽  
The State ◽  
Global Integration ◽  
Chinese Firms ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
Firm Innovativeness ◽  
Absorptive Capacities ◽  
Indigenous Innovation ◽  
Negative Role ◽  
Local Firms

AbstractThe global integration of capital and technology generates a pressing debate on how technologically backward countries can benefit fromFDI, and catch up technologically. This study identifies the mechanisms in the triangle of globalization-state-firm accounting for firms’ indigenous innovations. Specifically, I test three types of the state’s roles—the state’s infrastructure-building, partnership with the firm, and direct intervention into firm governance, combined withFDIspillovers and local firms’ absorptive capacity, in shaping local firms’ innovativeness in a national dataset of Chinese firms. I find that during Chinese firms’ initial technological take-off, the state helped enhance local firms’ indigenous innovativeness through its infrastructure-building and various partnerships with the firms. All three types of the state’s roles are found to positively modulate the firms’ absorptive capacities in affecting their innovativeness. The state’s infrastructure-building and the firm’s state ownership helped weaken the negative role of someFDI-related effects in influencing firm innovativeness.

Strategic orientations and firm innovativeness: a necessary condition analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Dinh Tho
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Learning Orientation ◽  
Business Relationship ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Strategic Orientations ◽  
Marketing Orientation ◽  
Firm Innovativeness

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to decipher the levels of three strategic orientations – learning orientation, entrepreneurial orientation (proactiveness and risk taking) and marketing orientation (responsiveness to customers, responsiveness to competitors, responsiveness to the macro-environment and business relationship quality) – that are necessary for firm innovativeness. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from a sample of 316 firms in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Multiple regression analysis (MRA) was employed to examine the net effects of seven factors (learning orientation, proactiveness, risk taking, responsiveness to customers, responsiveness to competitors, responsiveness to changes in the macro-environment and business relationship quality) on firm innovativeness. Necessary condition analysis (NCA) was then employed to discover the level of these factors as necessary conditions for firm innovativeness. Findings The results produced by MRA show that learning orientation, proactiveness, responsiveness to customers and responsiveness to competitors have positive effects on firm innovativeness. The results from the NCA reveal that six out of seven conditions exhibit varying necessary levels for firm innovativeness. Practical implications The findings are relevant to senior managers and suggest that the levels of strategic orientations necessary for firm innovativeness vary. Firms therefore should pay attention not only to the net effects (beta weights) but also to their necessary levels. Based on their resources and capabilities, firms should take into account the necessary level of each strategic orientation in order to achieve their innovativeness goal. Originality/value This study is among the first to decipher the levels of three strategic orientations (learning orientation, entrepreneurial orientation and marketing orientation) that are necessary for firm innovativeness.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document