Small firm innovation performance and employee involvement
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- Petra Andries & Dirk Czarnitzki, 2014. "Small firm innovation performance and employee involvement," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 43(1), pages 21-38, June.
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Keywords
Employee involvement; upper echelon; non-managerial employees; innovation performance; small firms;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation
- O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
- O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2012-03-21 (Business Economics)
- NEP-CSE-2012-03-21 (Economics of Strategic Management)
- NEP-ENT-2012-03-21 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-HRM-2012-03-21 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-INO-2012-03-21 (Innovation)
- NEP-SBM-2012-03-21 (Small Business Management)
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