Purpose - This study aims to empirically investigate how an industrial region has reacted to different shocks - competitive, market and environmental - through its economic subsystems - its firms, workers and institutions - in a longitudinal perspective for the period 1985-2021....

Purpose - The paper describes patterns of study on innovation in the regional economic resilience literature regarding methods and findings. Design/methodology/approach - This study is a descriptive one and it uses, as a method, the scoping review based on Scopus and Web of Science databases....

In the face of a crisis, understanding the possible determinants of economic performance can help managers act effectively. This paper examines the relationship between pre-shock firm openings and closings and regional economic resilience. Data from 294 municipalities in Brazil were analysed...

The objective of this research is to determine how proximity between organizations promotes the intensity of relationships and facilitates the exchange of information and knowledge in the relationship between the parent firm and the spin-off and its influence on organizational performance....

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) currently face new challenges that break traditional schemes which focus solely on teaching. HEIs have become organizations that explore and exploit existing knowledge through technology transfer and commercialization. This study analyzes the effect of...

We examine how a firm’s centrality within a network of geographically proximate firms affects its competitive capabilities. Our study of the total population of one Spanish cluster of fishing firms shows that the effects of centrality on a firm’s competitive capabilities are contingent on...

The purpose of this article is to study the curvilinear effect on pioneering orientation of one of its key relational backgrounds: strength of ties. The study is based on a sample of 224 companies in the footwear industry in Spain. A hierarchical regression analysis was performed. The results...

This article analyzes the determinants of successful crowdfunding initiatives using a sample of 5,251 projects from the reward-based Spanish platform Verkami. In contrast to most of the literature that has measured success with a dichotomous variable, we approach success with a continuous one,...