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ISSN: 2096-2487
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Organizational ambidexterity, open innovation and innovation outputs: How do followers and low-flyer EU countries innovate?

This study analyses the role played by organizational ambidexterity and open innovation in innovation outputs, considering business units with different levels of technological intensity (medium-high...

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Environmental, social, and governance performance and corporate innovation novelty

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance, along with the novelty of innovation, are significant factors in promoting sustainable development for corporations. This study employs the Heckman...

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How the adoption of industry 4.0 technologies is related to participation in global and domestic value chains: Evidence from Russia

This study explores the relationships among Industry 4.0 technologies, their application areas, and the involvement of Russian manufacturing firms in global and domestic value chains. We apply logit...

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The future of competitive advantage in Oman: Integrating green product innovation, AI, and intellectual capital in business strategies

This study delves into the dynamics of green product innovation, artificial intelligence (AI) adaption, and intellectual capital, investigating their impact on the competitiveness of firms in Oman....

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Governance in the exploration of global and regional determinants of ICT development

The present study assesses how governance affects information and communication technology (ICT) at the global level contingent on macroeconomic policy factors such as trade, foreign direct investment...

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Perceived value of microfinance and SME performance: The role of exploratory innovation

This study examines how perceived value of microfinance and exploratory innovation affect small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) performance in the context of a developing nation. Drawing on the strategic...

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The Metaverse: innovations and generative AI

Today, the Metaverse consists of various platforms, including digital twins of the physical world as well as virtual and blended digital-material environments that offer immersive experiences for individual...

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Strategic Management and Business Ecosystem Scientific Relations—Key Areas Review

This study explores the interaction between the business ecosystem and strategic management. This research is driven by the necessity of understanding how the principles of the business ecosystem influence...

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Allocentrism and numerator-based innovation: Panel data evidence

We explore the existence of a relationship between firms' allocentric approach, measured by their collaboration activities for innovation, and the orientation of their innovation. In particular, we...

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Digital Transformation and Innovation and Business Ecosystems: A Bibliometric Analysis for Conceptual Insights and Collaborative Practices for Ecosystem Innovation

This research aims to provide an ecosystem-inspired approach to digital transformation (DT) for sustainable innovations by reviewing state-of-the-art research. Focusing on DT innovation pathways for...

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Eco-Innovative Development of Industrial Ecosystems Based on the Quintuple Helix

This article explores how eco-innovation practices are integrated into different industrial ecosystems in different national and regional contexts, and the role of the quintuple helix model in this...

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Motivations for and barriers to innovation in non-profit organizations: The case of nursing homes in Northern Portugal

To contribute to the empirical literature on innovation in non-profit organizations, this study examines innovation in Private Social Solidarity Institutions with social responses for the elderly in...

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Shifting the paradigm: A critical review of social innovation literature

In this review of ten years of social innovation research (2012–2022), we define and explore three paradigms in the field: instrumentalist, strong, and democratic. We investigate how language usage...

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Research foresight in bridging open science and open innovation: Overview based on the complex thinking paradigm

Open innovation benefits from access to cutting-edge discoveries to increase their transformation into tangible applications for the benefit of society. Improving research quality has been proposed...

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Review of EU projects with a focus on environmental quality: Innovation, eco-innovation, and circular-economy elements

The primary objective of this study is to delve into transnational projects conducted between 2014 and 2020, with a strong emphasis on environmental quality. Our focus is directed toward projects that...

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Challenges facing the USA in matching Germany on advanced manufacturing for green growth

This study explores the relative strength of public policies promoting advanced manufacturing by comparing the government programs and capacities of two world leaders in science and technology: the...

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Fostering firm innovativeness: Understanding the sequential relationships between human resource practices, psychological empowerment, innovative work behavior, and firm innovative capability

This study investigated the relationships between human resource (HR) practices, employee psychological empowerment, employee innovative work behavior, and firm innovation capability in the context...

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Reliability and validity of the Public Innovation Hexagon (PIH) as applied to the Spanish social services

Social services are a protection system that seeks to assist people throughout their lives. Innovation is essential for enabling us to respond to the problems that society is currently facing and to...

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Empowerment sustainability perspectives for Bahraini women as entrepreneurs

The key objectives of this study were to investigate the factors that empower women entrepreneurs in the Kingdom of Bahrain and to measure the impacts of such factors on their business development and...

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Will Russia become a blueprint for emerging nations’ high-tech reforms? evidence from a 26-countries dataset

The central question of this study concerns the emergence of the Russian development model over the past decade. It highlights that this development model could be a blueprint for other emerging markets....

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When the sum adds up: Using public procurement to avoid intersectoral cooperation barriers in lagging regions

This study examined the application of an instrument that supports intersectoral collaboration in innovation. Using the strategic action field (SAF) approach, we analyze a pre-commercial public procurement...

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Innovation: A state-of-the-art review and typology

Innovation is often an object of study in economics and management. However, the social and behavioral aspects of innovation acceptance are as important as the economics of product development. A significant...

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Enabling affordances of blockchain in agri-food supply chains: A value-driver framework using Q-methodology

The application of blockchain beyond cryptocurrencies has received increasing attention from industry and scholars alike. Given predicted looming food crises, some of the most impactful deployments...

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Green managerial practices and green performance: A serial mediation model

This study examines the influence of green supply chain management (GSCM) practices and green culture on green performance in the manufacturing sector through the mediating effect of proactive environmental...

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Industry cluster, organizational diversity, and innovation

This study explains the factors that enhance the innovation performance of a cluster by focusing on its knowledge spillovers. Based on the literature on industry clusters, organizational diversity,...

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