The crisis triggered by the COVID-19 emergency is changing the competitive landscape by
pushing companies to adapt to sudden change. Small and medium-sized enterprises …

Most studies analysing the relationship between R&D and firm growth focus on total R&D
investment. This paper aims to analyse separately each component of R&D investment …

While after a crisis, organizational robustness and resilience are associated with the return
to pre-shock conditions, antifragility is characterized by the tendency to take advantage of …

Purpose This work aims at investigating the variables that foster antifragility in the context of
small and medium-sized service companies (service SMEs). Design/methodology/approach …

Prior research has shown that institutional constraints, present in many emerging and
transition economies, decrease the performance of firms. However, how resource-restricted …

We investigate the extent to which firms' innovation persists in “times of crisis.” Following an
eclectic theoretical background, we expect that innovation persistence limitedly emerges in …

This paper examines the investment behavior of research and development (R&D) under
uncertainty. We assume that there is a heterogeneous effect of uncertainty on R&D …

Innovation activities in the German business sector showed two opposing trends over the
past two decades: While total innovation expenditures grew substantially, the number of …

This paper studies the adoption of e-business by manufacturing firms. We augment the
Technology–Organization–Environment (TOE) framework to consider two organizational …

Learning from failure can foster innovation, but how a new product development (NPD)
team's learning from failure affects new product performance requires more insights. In …