This paper explores a novel web-based indicator to examine how firms' disclosure of university ties on their websites shapes their innovation performance. First, using data from the German Community Innovation Survey 2023 and the Tenders Electronic Daily database, combined with firms' discloser...

This paper explores a novel web-based indicator to examine how firms’ disclosure of university ties on their websites shapes their innovation performance. First, using data from the German Community Innovation Survey 2023 and the Tenders Electronic Daily database, combined with firms’...

Firms are not abstract, profit-seeking units as often assumed in neoclassical models, but historically situated, socially embedded, and organizationally adaptive entities. Firms evolve through continuous interaction with their environment, shaped by routines, bounded rationality, and the...