... as their impact on firms' innovation performance. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the Third Community Innovation Survey (CIS‐3) for Spain, a multiple regression model is used to study the existence of complementarity between innovation activities and their impact on innovation performance. The sample...

... of franchisees from different franchise chains and sectors of activity operating in Spain. The authors also controlled for transformation type, which represents the kind of activities carried out in the franchisee units, whether just commercial or both transformative and commercial activities. Findings...

... and development Universities Partnership Manufacturing industries Service industries Spain Innovative processes are, by definition, new technological or organizational ways of producing goods and services (Edquist et al., 2001). However, their relevance is not merely confined to the business...

... Manufacturing Organizational change Research Spain Flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) are an important step towards fully automated and computer‐integrated production. As a technology that integrates different stand‐alone machines and control equipment, its implementation is not an easy task...