[PDF] Top 20 The Influence of Relational Capital on Product Innovation Performance at Innovative SMEs

... process, product innovation often requires a search for knowledge outside the firm’s existing knowledge base, frequently in areas not directly related to its current ...why relational ... See full document

... Portugal, the development of a set of initiatives aimed at strengthening the Innovative capacity and mechanisms of technological diffusion that overcome the ... See full document

... incremental innovation performance. Lasagni (2012) investigated the role of external relationships as key drivers of European SMEs ...innovation. The author found ... See full document

... ates the internationalization-performance relationship. Regarding the impact of size on performance, the liter- ature points to the fact that size can be a source ... See full document

... to the prior study examined decision making process that leads to business’s choosing whether they are going to use suppliers as a source of financing or trade ...that SMEs when it came to account ... See full document

... Regarding the impact of size on performance, the literature points to the fact that size can be a source of competitive advantage because larger firms have at their ... See full document

... The average of use of measures in Group 1 (Fig 6) was ...that of use of measures in Group 2 (Fig 7) was ...local SMEs were not focusing their efforts on ... See full document

... three product categories (juice, milk and yogurt) as the research setting because these are a major contributor to the FMCG ...levels of applied technology, marketing know- how and ethical ... See full document

... direct influence on the financial performance of companies, the empirical proof in support of such beliefs remains obscure (He and Huang ...examines the ... See full document

... terms of the contributions of this chapter, the results obtained allow us to propose future actions at the level of firms or public and private actors with ... See full document

... increase of commitment to foreign markets after having built up a domestic base, as reflected in the Uppsala Model by Johanson and Vahlne (1990; ...Hence, the progress of going abroad is ... See full document

... and the sales value. The interaction variable is included to understand whether among the GSVC funded SMEs the pre-funding growth rate helps predicting post-funding growth, since it ... See full document

... evaluate the PSI-performance relationship and the plausible types of (linear and nonlinear) relationships that can arise, this section summarises the PSI constructs found in the ... See full document

... - The project “Redes Colaborativas de Elevado Desempenho-RCED” (Carneiro et ...High Performance Collaborative Networks, the RCED Project is an initiative proposed to investigate major models ... See full document

... has the ambition to define performance indicators that monitor the performance all along the front end process in the new product ...answer the following research ... See full document

... easiness of renewal in the way the firm works, makes easier to the firm to adapt and, consequently, a greater link with firm’s IC (O’Connor et ...Particularly, the transformational ... See full document

... terms of technology and globalized markets. The positioning is considered one of the key elements in modern marketing management, however, the term positioning has introduced some ... See full document

... used the database of the “Portuguese Third Community Innovation Survey ”, Silva and Leitão (2009) affirmed that companies that establish relationships of cooperation with universities ... See full document

... with the usual tests indicating that REM is more ...since the dependent variables are left-censored, we adopt a Tobit methodology (Gujarati and Porter, ...therefore the coefficients should be ... See full document

... was the main instrumental function that supported this innovation ...working on Nutella communications in Portugal in 2013 when they began offering personalized jars with named labels, available both ... See full document