CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees' ideas enhances small firms' innovation performance. A Heckman selection model … innovation performance. However, contributions depend heavily on the individuals' area of expertise and on whether product or … process innovation is desired. Our findings enrich the current view on the entrepreneurial team, but also warn against the …

how knowledge management influences the innovation performance of a firm. While former studies mainly focused on knowledge … techniques on product and process innovation. More specifically, if a firm wants to reduce costs, it is more valuable to invest … important for a firm to carefully select the techniques of knowledge management depending on the goals in its innovation …

Knowledge spillovers to competitors are regarded as an important aspect of the innovation process. While a company …

innovation, i.e. weakly controlled managers show a higher innovation propensity. However, the higher the leverage the more …

Established firms often face significant obstacles to innovation. As a solution, it has been suggested to form … monitored by their corporate sponsors, resulting in less favorable conditions for radical innovation …

as reduced remuneration and job loss. However, managers might over-invest into innovation for reasons of growth implying … their own interests. When entrenched, managers do not fear detrimental effects of risky innovation projects on their career …, and hence tend to over-invest into innovation …

’ innovation activities. Employing data from a representative sample of German firms, we find consistently with real options theory … that negatively affected firms substantially reduced R&D and other innovation expenditures not only in the first year of … the pandemic (2020), but also in the two subsequent years indicating ’Long–Covid’ effects on innovation. Furthermore …