Knowledge Dynamics and Absorptive Capacity: Shaping Innovation Performance in the Service Business of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
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Absorptive Capacity; Innovation Performance; Knowledge Breadth; Knowledge Depth;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- M10 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - General
- L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance
- O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
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