...Evelyn Núñez; Juan Carlos Leiva; Ronald Mora-Esquivel Purpose This study explores the relationship between digital orientation (DO), innovation and performance in small- and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) to answer the following research question: Is innovation a mediating mechanism...

...MariaCecilia Henriquez-Daza; Joan-Lluis Capelleras; Fabián Osorio-Tinoco Purpose Grounded in social cognitive theory, this study investigates the influence of growth aspirations on innovation and examines the moderating role of uncertainty avoidance, highlighting the differences between emerging...

... on innovation performance in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach The proposed theoretical model was evaluated using partial least-squares structural equation modeling and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis. The data were obtained from a sample of 536 SMEs in Chile...

...Iván Santiago Galarza; Rocío Guadalupe León-Carlosama; Alba Grisela Cevallos-Pineda; Mónica Martínez-Gómez Purpose The purpose of this research paper is to establish the impact of process and service innovation on non-financial and financial performance in the tourism sector, as well as to explain...

...Rodrigo Costamagna; Sandra Idrovo-Carlier; Pedro Mendi; Alfredo Rodriguez Purpose This paper takes a closer look at the way firms combine human resources from different departments by analyzing firm-level data obtained from a series of innovation surveys conducted in Colombia by Departamento...

...Manuel Alonso Dos Santos; María Huertas González-Serrano; Marcin Waldemar Staniewski Objetivo Este artículo presenta el Número Especial (SI, 35-2) de ARLA, editado (no exclusivamente) con los mejores artículos de la conferencia especializada de la conferencia Academy of Innovation, Entrepreneurship...

...Miguel Crespo Celda; Dolores Botella-Carrubi; Jose Jabaloyes; Virginia Simón-Moya Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the most relevant innovation strategies used by the Latin American national tennis federations as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology...

...Yeri Tordecilla Avila; Jana Schmutzler; Patricia Beatriz Marquez Rodriguez; Eduardo Gómez Araujo Purpose This paper aims to evaluate whether entrepreneurs with an innovative product/service are more likely to formally register their businesses. Understanding the decision of business registration...

..., innovation (R&D), business growth, foreign direct investment and the Global Competitiveness Index and how these have influenced a country's development. Design/methodology/approach To analyse and validate this assumption, relevant information has been extracted about Ecuador (the subject of the study...

... of innovation (Aparicio et al., 2019 ; Serrano-Bedia et al., 2019), internationalization (Casillas and Moreno-Menéndez, 2017), evolution and trends (Bird et al., 2002 ; Benavides-Velasco et al., 2013 ; Casillas and Acedo, 2007 ; Debicki et al., 2009 ; Xi et...

... emerging economies. Findings The main finding of this paper is that innovation overcomes gravity effects and parameters typical of a knowledge society are the significant ones to explain trade among different regions. The model that includes an innovation proxy accommodates with the new international...

... 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Ownership structure Family firms Institutional investors R&D, contestability Multiple large shareholders (MLS) Socioemotional wealth (SEW) Innovation Estructura de propiedad...

...Huimin Zhang; Mu Tian; Tsang Kai Hung Purpose The objective of this study is to advance the understanding of the connection between cultural distance and the cross-border diffusion of innovations by conducting a systematic review and analysis of previous literature. Design/methodology/approach...

... controversy of entrepreneurship relying on the differences between developing and developed countries. Most of the literature points in favor of developed economies due to their innovative capacity and motivation to start new ventures (Capelleras et al., 2010). Conversely, developing countries...

...César Gustavo Pino Soto Purpose The purpose of this paper is to build a new theoretical model from the interaction between two theoretical approaches. This model can explain the development of organizational innovations from a specific type of knowledge that the firm generate when they face...

... the organization’s process improvement (PI) performance as it relates to their innovation capabilities, their efforts into information sharing and collaboration with customers, their planning for contingencies and considering the uncertainty of their customer’s technology. Design/methodology/approach A survey...

...Daniel Paulino Teixeira Lopes; Naldeir dos Santos Vieira; Allan Claudius Queiroz Barbosa; Cristina Parente Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss recent developments in the fields of management innovation and social innovation, in order to discover any possible convergences and divergences...

...Paulo Antônio Zawislak; Jorge Tello-Gamarra; Edi Madalena Fracasso; Oscar Castellanos Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present eight papers selected from ALTEC 2015 that provide an overview of innovation in Latin America. Design/methodology/approach This editorial seeks to define innovation...

...Vanessa Marques Daniel; Mauricio Pozzebon de Lima; Ângela Maria Ferrari Dambros Purpose Considering the importance of services and innovation for the modern economy and the peculiarities that differentiate services from tangible goods, the purpose of this paper is to better understand how, based...

...Diego Armando Marín-Idárraga; Juan Carlos Cuartas Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the effect of the co-alignment of structural variables on innovation, wherein Bogotá-based SMEs, belonging to the industrial, commercial and services sectors, were used as samples. Design/methodology...