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Technological Forecasting and Social Change : 抄録雑誌の概要

A critical issue has been absent from the conversation on dynamic capabilities: the two seminal papers represent not only different but contradictory understandings of the construct's core elements Here, we explore the reasons for this, using author cocitation analysis to inform our analysis Our findings suggest that the field is being socially constructed on the basis of two separate domains of knowledge and that underlying structural impediments have impeded dialog across the domains In light of this evidence, then, we take up the challenge to find a solution to this dilemma By employing a contingency-based approach, we show that there are ways to unify the field that rely, paradoxically, on integrating the two contradictory views, while still preserving the assumptions that led to their differences

The elephant in the room of dynamic capabilities: Bringing two diverging conversations together

Research analyzing the importance of human capital for innovation usually focuses on secondary and tertiary education. This paper takes a different perspective by focusing on in-firm training. We argue that continuous training guarantees access to leading-edge knowledge and thus increases a firm’s propensity to innovate. Using German establishment-level data, we show a strong association between lagged continuous training and innovation. Applying instrumental variable methods, we cautiously argue that the association between training and innovation is indeed a causal effect. In the quest for a relevant and valid instrument, we exploit legal regulations of the German Works Constitution Act.

Training and innovation

Nowadays with rapid changes in the business world, companies all over the globe are increasingly including innovation as one of their strategies to ensure business expansion and profitability. This study examined the determinants of a firm's innovation in Nigeria. The study utilized enterprise survey data developed by the World Bank, which were analyzed using probit and tobit regression models. The findings showed that investing in research and development (R&D), formal training, a firm's size, exporting status, competitors, location, type and sector, or activity of firms all positively drive the propensity of a firm to innovate. It was however established by the study that the firm's age and employee education negatively affect the chances of innovation. Equally it was found that almost the same factors (investing in R&D, formal training, a firm's size, type, and sector) were the significant determinants of product, process, organizational, or marketing innovation. Thus, the policy implications of the findings are that firms should make the significant factors their top priorities in their quest to boost innovation.

Determinants of firms innovation in Nigeria

This paper contributes to the scarce literature on the relationship between human capital and innovation at the firm-level. In this paper we examine whether human capital endowments, such as the general level of schooling within a firm, and practices of firms, such as formal training and employee slack time, have a positive relationship with the innovative output of firms. We contribute by using a more sophisticated approach and analyse how different combinations of human capital elements affect innovation. We study this relationship in Sub-Saharan countries where the general level of human capital is lower compared with developed countries. The results illustrate that internal mechanisms that spur human capital are of particular importance for innovative output in this context. In addition, our results indicate that specific combinations of human capital elements can even have negative effects. In particular, for firms in the manufacturing sector that offer employee slack, the effect of employee ...

https://tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14479338.2016.1237303

Human capital and innovation in Sub-Saharan countries: a firm-level study

In this paper we test whether human capital endowments of firms and additional practices of firms, such as formal training and employee slack time, have a positive relation with the innovative output of firms. This paper contributes to the literature about factors that influence innovation at the firm level and the literature about human capital and innovation at the national level. Furthermore, we study this relation in developing countries, while most studies about innovation have been done in developed countries. We test this relation in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda with data stemming from the Enterprise Surveys of the World Bank. Our results show that there exists a positive relation between human capital and innovation. In particular, the role of practices of firms such as offering formal training and employee slack time are conducive for innovative output.

Human Capital and Innovation in Developing Countries: A Firm Level Study

What we critically ascertain in this essay is how the modern university is increasingly drifting away from the key ambitions of its own mission statement, and largely by its own doing. Although the...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1350508420975347

The autoimmunity of the modern university: how its managerialism is self-harming what it claims to protect.

Firms in East Africa face highly uncertain environments, fueling environmental dynamism, changes in industry structures, and enhanced competitive dynamics In order to understand the opportunities 

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1476127018755320

Paralyzed by the Dashboard Light: Environmental Characteristics and Firm's Scanning Capabilities in East Africa

Existing research describes an inverted U-shaped relationship between openness and innovation. Most of this work has been conducted in developed countries and takes the context as a given. However, when using an open innovation strategy the context in which a firm operates matters. We suggest that the regional knowledge available moderates the relationship between openness and innovation. We investigate the effects of regional knowledge availability on the relationship between openness and innovation in a sample of 683 firms located in five developing countries. The results indicate that if regional knowledge availability is lower, it could be better to be closed for innovation instead of open.

A. van Uden

Papers

Human capital and innovation in Sub-Saharan countries: a firm-level study

Human Capital and Innovation in Developing Countries: A Firm Level Study

The autoimmunity of the modern university: how its managerialism is self-harming what it claims to protect.

Paralyzed by the Dashboard Light: Environmental Characteristics and Firm's Scanning Capabilities in East Africa

External Knowledge Sources and the Cost and Benefits of Innovation in Developing Countries