External innovation increases the profits of the median firm, but also increases dispersion and the kurtosis of the … evidence that the rewards from innovation are positively skewed, we find no effect of innovation strategies upon the skewness …

Innovation and the customer participation are central issues in research focusing on the performance of firms. However …, the current literature offers little guidance on the extent of connection between firm innovation capabilities and … that customer participation may account for the effects of service firm innovation capabilities (both technical and non …

literature on dynamic capabilities, organizational change, and innovation in the context of organizational performance and …

interactions and feedback mechanisms for supply chain value innovation. Value co-creation and value constellations, which serve as … innovation drivers in channel integration, are positively associated with supply chain performance. We investigated the … relationships among collaborative supply chain value innovation (CSCVI), supply chain capabilities (SCCs), and firm performance by …

The impact of innovation on firm performance has been a matter of significant interest to economists and policy makers … for decades. Although innovation is generally regarded as a means of improving the competitiveness of firms and their … attempts to assess the drivers of the innovation process in two different institutional settings: mature market economies of …

innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies … have been conducted using data drawn from innovation surveys combined with data from a number of other sources. The issue … illustrates the value of these surveys in improving our understanding of innovation in firms and raises a number of questions for …