Nowadays, corporate entrepreneurship is becoming the key source to develop firms in order to improve their results. In this way, technology plays a similar key role so as to obtain higher organizational performance through more efficiently corporate entrepreneurship in the firm. In this regard,...

The benefits of doing R & D activities have been unanimously stated in the academic literature. Although a clear answer on what is the best way to manage these activities has not yet been reached. This lack of definition is exacerbated in uncertain environments where it is difficult to predict...

This paper argues that the value of social media in knowledge (KM) can be evaluated on the basis of how social media helps to overcome four generic knowledge problems - i.e. uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity and equivocality. Drawing upon the relevant KM and social media literature, the paper...

There is lack of published studies about the relationship between eWOM from SNS or Internet and purchase. This study intends to make a contribution to the understanding of this phenomenon. In order to do this, the research separates the eWOM arisen from the Internet and the eWOM arisen from SNS,...

Health economists proposed maximizing additional health gains as a criterion to set priorities and to maximize social welfare in the microallocation of healthcare resources. This requires that social values from health improvements are neutral in relation to personal characteristics of people,...

Today`s organizations are increasingly finding themselves in a world characterized by globalization, turbulence and complexity, paralleled with an exponential advancement in information technology (IT). These conditions require flexibility, collaboration, innovation and the courage to embrace...

In this research innovation is considered as a production process, with outputs and inputs. The purpose is to compare the productivity of innovation across the twenty seven Member States of the European Union (EU-27), with a particular focus on Portugal. The data on inputs and outputs of...

The correlation among agglomeration, externalities, and human capital growth is a question that requires extensive empirical and analytical investigation. This article hypothesizes that entities that cluster in geographic space take advantage of external economies and develop more rapidly than...

Biodiversity crisis is one of the many crises that started at the turn of the millennia. The strategy of action outlines a strong economic component, together with the recognition of market mechanisms as the most effective policies to protect biodiversity. In this context, biodiversity and...

Both the implementation of reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) and its integration to current practices (e.g. human resources, information technology, etc.) being used within manufacturing plants are of fundamental concern to fields associated with business administration and management...