innovation activities during periods of recession. We empirically analyse what general patterns can be distinguished in this …: some companies have recently reduced their innovation activities significantly, while others maintained them and a third … deceleration of R&D and innovation activities induced by the crisis, but the trend figures remain positive. Driven by the companies …

countries. In this paper, we investigate whether the implementation of innovation-intensive or adoption-intensive business … compute a novel innovation-intensity strategy index for firms, based on textual analysis of financial reports issued in the US … dimensions of the innovation process implemented by firms that go beyond R&D efforts. Our empirical results indicate that firms …

This paper proposes a quantitative model of firm dynamics with endogenous innovation to study growth acceleration …

and Theory of Constraints TOC, expose the Referential Conceptual and Methodological Framework, to increase competitiveness … competitiveness. Is a key integrating factor, to making possible define the Methodological Framework based on Theory of Constraints ….Conclusions: Review exposed Reference Conceptual and Methodological Framework related, to Competitiveness and Theory of Constraints …

Social innovation is booming as a political buzzword. However, the concept still lacks scientific analysis, a common … corporate social innovation by detaching the concept from the government and NPO sector. It suggests defining social innovation … by its social means and social ends. The term "social" not only refers to the non-material nature of innovation and its …

find that catalytic innovation not only requires the institutional entrepreneur to collaborate with other complementary …

and innovation. There has been an implication in these models that the institutional environment is stable. However, a new … along these margins, propelling a process of institutional evolution. This presents a new type of innovation process … replicator dynamic model of institutional innovation and proposes some implications of this innovation for innovation policy …

organizational theory, innovation economics, and industrial organization should therefore be critically examined …Management research has long focused on the theory of the firm, studying for-profit organizations that produce …