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influences the innovation performance of a firm. While former studies mainly focused on knowledge management cycles, we … management techniques and their influence on product and process innovation. The ability to source external knowledge positively … the tools of knowledge management in function of the kind of technical innovation it wants to proceed. -- Knowledge …
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of new product development. Since new product development is regarded as the key to innovation due to its strong …
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In recent years, innovation processes involve more heterogenous actors inside and outside the firm. Little is known … however about the spatial impact of this organisational decomposition of innovation processes (ODIP): Does it lead to a … geographical dispersion of innovation activities as well? Furthermore, which parts of the innovation process are carried out …
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The days of vertical integration are over. Product development, manufacturing, and other activities once done by single firms are now fields of collaboration. This raises questions about the spatial aspects of interfirm collaboration. Firms have partners in their direct environment, at a...
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of lead users (LUs) on innovation success by proposing and … validating an integrative model that links LUs, innovation success and knowledge sharing (KS) variables. Design …-term profits. Besides, the authors confirmed that the impact of LUs on innovation success is mediated by the "KS" behavior …
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This paper attempts to answer the question of what and how knowledge sharing mechanisms should be used between geographically dispersed plants in multinational companies. Case studies in eleven multinational companies reveal many mechanisms are used for inter-plant knowledge sharing, which are...
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Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) increase innovation? We examine this question by …
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