Purpose While concerns about the social and environmental impact that result from business activity continue to grow, a stream of research consolidates understand mechanisms can favor more sustainable companies. The present study tries expand knowledge antecedents radical innovation by analyzing effects alternative understudied constructs. Grounded on stewardship organizational learning theorie...

For several decades, marketing researchers have stressed that firms can achieve competitive advantage by creating superior value for customers through innovation. However the literature on entrepreneurship and innovation based competitive strategy is deficient in several important respects. First, entrepreneurship has been poorly measured in the past. Next, research on innovation is biased towa...

This paper analyzes the relationship between the three main enterprise systems (Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM)) and firms’ innovational performance. It studies whether the enterprise systems have impacts on process as well as product innovations. Using German firm-level data, the results show that ERP and SCM systems fos...

This paper examines the determinants of innovations and market structure within a simulta­ neous framework. From a competitive fringe model, quasi-conditional factor demand functions are derived that explain product and process innovations in terms of factor prices and market structure variables such as relative firm size, market size, and the concentration ratio where the latter set of vari­ a...

Purpose – Information and communication technologies (ICT) is identified as key driver for the service phenomenon. Organisations operating, for example, in traditional service sector, manufacturing industry and public sector are increasingly interested in utilizing ICT to create service innovations to enhance their competitiveness. The purpose of this paper is to explore role of dynamic capabil...

Purpose – Since the 2008 financial crisis, the financial industry is in need of innovation to increase stability and improve quality of services. The purpose of this paper is to explore internal barriers that influence the effectiveness of projects within large financial services firms focussing on potentially disruptive and radical innovations. While literature has generally focused on barrier...