This research analyzes the effects of interorganizational links on innovation using a comprehensive framework that integrates three research streams: social capital, knowledge based view and innovation. Using data from 143 R&D and/or marketing departments of innovative manufacturing and service...

Recent Organizations are adopting teams’ structures to react to competition and enhance performance, but they do not fully achieve these objectives. Psychology literature argues that one of the main reasons for that is the lack of team commitment, which could be enhanced partially for the...

This paper differentiates “best innovative companies” from “worst innovative companies” and it takes into account three separate bodies of literature— intellectual capital, knowledge-based view, and innovation literatures. Based on a sample of 181 firms which belong to manufacturing...

In this paper, we analyze the current status of securitization in Spain within a global context, and taking in account certain factors that have had or may have impact on its recent development and its future. After explaining the historical and legislative evolution, the paper highlights the...

Research into mobile-shopping (MS) is currently the focus of much attention both from scholars and the world of business due to the extent to which mobile devices offer vast business opportunities in all global markets. However, few works have compared the validity of the extended Technology...

Recent studies are supporting the idea that understanding the dynamics of firms’ value creation requires a complex and indirect association with their relational or social resources. In particular, in bounded geographical contexts this approach is replacing initial, perhaps too simplistic,...

This paper analyzes four modes of innovation that differ in their scope of newness – innovation generation and adoption–, and in their degree of change –radical and incremental innovations. Building a theoretical model based on the Market Orientation (MO) and contingency theory literatures...

Este trabajo pretende explorar las presiones institucionales que reciben las empresas para favorecer la conciliación de la vida profesional y personal de sus trabajadores, y su efecto sobre la adopción de medidas y su uso real por parte de los empleados. La presencia de trabajadoras y...

Despite 20 years of research into various aspects of the ‘Market Orientation’ (MO) construct, dubiety persists regarding the existence, nature and significancy of the relationship between market orientation and firm performance. In order to get more evidence some authors suggest including...

El presente estudio se contextualiza en la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII. Siglo caracterizado por el cambio dinástico de los Austrias a los Borbones, el pensamiento ilustrado y la corriente reformista guiada por la racionalización de la administración. En este escenario reformador, destacó...