The limited number of previous empirical investigations of the effect of information and communication technologies (ICT) on innovation focus mainly on the ‘hard’ dimensions of ICT (i.e. firm’s ICT equipment). This paper presents an empirical investigation of the effect of five important ‘soft’ dimensions of ICT at firm level (ICT structure, personnel, skills, strategy, processes) on firm’s inn...

While service innovations, new or significantly improved services, are essential to the continued prosperity of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), magnitude relationship between innovation performance (SIP) organizational (OP) for these distinct groups is unknown. This because they commonly assumed be homogeneous studied together as a single group, obscuring any meaningful sign...

Large industrial enterprises had innovation rates of 84% compared to 63% of similarly sized service enterprises. In excess of 67% of medium sized industrial enterprises engaged in innovation activity in the period while 58% of service enterprises were innovation active. Small industrial enterprises (ten to forty-nine persons engaged) had an innovation activity rate of 51% compared to 38% of sma...

I. Miles The diversity of service activities means that service innovations and innovation processes take various forms. In this paper, we use input/output and other data to depict how service industries vary in such areas as products, markets, work organization, and technological characteristics—most being very distinctive from primary industries (i.e., extractive industries such as agricultur...

although organizational learning is often known as a goal, in the view of many stakeholders, the final aim of many organizations is optimization of financial results such as productivity, and  innovation is among various factors which optimizes the organizations financial performance, however, as firms seek financial performance improvement, higher profit and minimum cost, it is necessary to un...

the purpose of this study is assessing the effects of competitive strategy and technological innovation on export performance based on competitive environment in non metal mineral industry of iran. in this paper, available approaches in the scope of determinants of ep are identified consist of contingency view, relational and resource based view. in this study, we examine relationship between t...

This exploratory study seeks to promote investigation about knowledge sharing between enterprises of the same enterprise group and is motivated by the growing importance of knowledge management (KM) to businesses. The data was collected from Community Innovation Survey (CIS) 2012 and three linear regressions were performed (one to all enterprises, one to SME and one to large enterprises). The r...

This paper focuses upon the performance of innovation systems from an output perspective. Innovation performance measurement is considered as increasingly interesting by several scholars during last years. It is also important as basis for the design and implementation of innovation policies. Different methodologies dealing with innovation performance are found not only in the literature but al...