Determinants of Innovative Behaviour

1. Introduction
Cees Beers, Alfred Kleinknecht, Roland Ortt, Robert Verburg

Part I. Internal Organization

2. Business Strategy, Human Resource Management and Corporate Performance: Evidence from Small Firms in the UK and US
Jonathan Michie, Maura Sheehan

3. Where People Provide the Impetus: HRM Practices, Employee Job Satisfaction and Innovation
Helen Shipton, Doris Fay

4. Skill Endowment and R&D Investment: Evidence from Micro Data
Mariacristina Piva, Marco Vivarelli

Part II. Linking Internal to External Organization

5. Designing the Organization for Innovation
Vittorio Chiesa, Federico Frattini

6. Exploring Knowledge Flows and Losses in the ‘Open Innovation’ Age
Paul Trott

7. The Role of Knowledge Clusters in R&D Acquisition and Innovation Success
Torsten Brodt, Sebastian Knoll

8. E-collaboration in the Automotive Supply Chain: Determinants and Impacts on Performance
Elisabeth Lefebvre, Louis A. Lefebvre, Amal Amarouch, Luc Cassivi, Gaël le Hen

9. Innovation and Labour Productivity in the Swiss Manufacturing Sector: An Analysis Based on Firm Panel Data
Spyros Arvanitis

10. Financial Constraint and R&D Investment: Evidence from CIS
Amaresh K. Tiwari, Pierre Mohnen, Franz C. Palm, Sybrand Schim Loeff

Part III. External Organization

11. Technology Diffusion and Innovation: The Importance of Domestic and Foreign Sources
Hans Lööf

12. Industry Specialization, Diversity and the Efficiency of Regional Innovation Systems
Michael Fritsch, Viktor Slavtchev

Keywords: Business and Management, Management