... Business performance Finally, a firm with realized absorptive capacity can efficiently “transform” assimilated knowledge into exploitative knowledge and “exploit” it at the downstream stage (Lane and Lubatkin, 1998 ; Zahra and George, 2002 ; Lane et al., 2006). When a firm conducts...

... transformation a key driver of corporate change. This study examines the impact of internal and external factors, such as social capital, absorptive capacity and government support, in facilitating open social innovation and digital transformation activities, which may ultimately enhance business performance...

... Productivity rate Business performance Small-scale agricultural businesses (SSABs), agricultural firms employing less than 100 employees, with a total annual turnover of less than R5 million and a total gross asset value of less than R5 million (Republic of South Africa, 2003), are deemed critical...

..., the structural relationships among the latent factors were determined through structural equation modeling. Findings According to the study findings, only three dimensions of innovation performance directly contributes to business performance. Moreover, this paper shows the differential effects of firm...

... (as innovators) than single innovators of either type. Accordingly, we explicitly account for each firm’s innovative activity in products and in processes separately. Competences Manufacturing Knowledge management Behaviour Business performance Organizational change Innovation persistence has...

...Hans Löfsten Purpose – This paper is concerned with the management and organization of product innovation processes, and how innovation performance relates to business performance. The underlying rationale is that encouraging firms to innovate will lead to a better business performance...

... for innovating products and processes becomes a key capacity in itself. Jon Charterina can be contacted at: jon.charterina@ehu.es © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Supplier relations Customer relations Knowledge sharing Innovation Business performance Spain In relationships...

...‐sized enterprises Business performance Spain In current competitive environments, innovation is generally considered a firm's core value creation capacity and one of its most important competitive weapons (Sandvik and Sandvik, 2003) not only for larger firms, but also for the small and medium...

... 2006 Innovation Channel relationships Distribution management Business performance Quality Hong Kong However, research on the influence of inter‐organizational relationships on innovation requires further inroads and contributions (Marshall, 2004). In addition, while...