Background: The banking industry can create sustainable development and be a competitive advantage of the enterprise by promoting a sustainable environment and investment focused on social responsibility. Therefore, the present study was formed with the aim of identifying the components of innovative green banking based on bioethics. Method: The research method in the present study was qualita...

We propose an endogenous growth model with offshoring to investigate its effects on product innovation and growth in the country of origin. Offshoring is associated with reduced feedback from offshored plants to domestic labs as well as coordination problems between the offshored and domestic divisions of firms. Production and transport cost parameters affect the static decision to relocate pla...

The purpose of this study is determine whether and how the flexibility of the workforce is affecting product innovation outcomes of firms responding to their changing environments. Drawing on the resource-based theory of the firm we contribute to the literature distinguishing human resource characteristics from human resource management practices and subdividing the characteristics into functio...

The previous studies on the factors affecting trade margins emphasize the importance of exogenous trade costs; however, the role of product innovation has not been thoroughly investigated. Product innovation activities of a firm directly determine how efficiently its product matches the target consumers’ preferences and in turn significantly affects a country's trade growth patter. Therefore, w...

Creativity in Product Innovation describes a remarkable new technique for improving the creativity process in product design. Certain “regularities” in product development are identifiable, objectively verifiable and consistent for almost any kind of product. These regularities are described by the authors as “Creativity Templates.” This book describes the theory and implementation of these Tem...

There is consensus in the marketing literature that market knowledge and cross-functional collaboration are two fundamental resources for successful product innovation. However, few studies examine the dimensions or characteristics of market knowledge and how and why these resources influence product innovation performance. Drawing on contingency theory and the knowledge-based view of the firm,...

Product innovation within strategic alliances differs from product innovation within firms due to coordination problems with respect to decision making. This exploratory study, drawing on alliance research, strategic decisionmaking research and product innovation literature explains these problems at the level of product innovation projects in dyadic strategic alliances. In particular, the empi...

  Purpose: This study was designed to investigate the association between knowledge creation and   organizational innovation among the staff of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS).   Materials and Methods: In this descriptive correlational study, 132 individuals from TUMS   employees were randomly selected based on Cochran’s formula. The questionnaires of knowledge   creation managemen...

Many current sustainability considerations in industry constrain design space by emphasizing reduced material and energy flows across product life cycles. However, there are also opportunities for sustainability awareness to extend design space and drive innovation. Product-service systems (PSS) in particular can be a vehicle through which sustainability-driven innovation occurs. A framework fo...

In this paper we use a panel of manufacturing firms in Spain to examine the extent to which they use internal and external sources of information (customers, suppliers, competitors, consultants and universities) to generate product and process innovation. Our results show that, although internal sources are influential, external sources of information are key to achieve innovation performance. ...