The purpose of this paper is to explore the unclear relationship between industry structure and Open Innovation. The focus of the study is on firms that received external help to develop their products or that helped third parties in developing their products. The hypotheses were tested on a...

Purpose: This paper studies the impact of ICT on the productivity of the activities of the firm in the supply chain focusing on the actual use of these technologies instead of on the mere ICT investment. Approach: Approaching the research goal with the theoretical framework of the Theory of the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the dynamics of the gender diversity-to-performance relationship in the Spanish banking sector in the period 1999-2010. Specifically the authors try to study how different proportions of men and women in banking institutions lead to different...

Previous literature has suggested that the adoption of Information Technology (IT) can affect the efficiency of multimarket firms. This paper examines the empirical relationship between IT and the efficiency of small and medium enterprises either following diversification strategies or selling...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the unclear relationship between industry structure and open innovation. Design/methodology/approach – The focus of the study is on firms that received external help to develop their products or that helped third parties in developing their...