This paper analyzes data from 1666 Spanish industrial firms to test how some human
resource (HR) flexibility dimensions mediate the relationship between research and …

Absorptive capacity is frequently an outcome of a firm's cumulatively path-dependent R&D
investments. However, the query how absorptive capacity transforms R&D investment into …

Despite R&D is seen as a starting point of innovation, firms usually confront a trade-off in
allocating limited R&D resources to either exploratory or exploitative activities. Relative to …

Aiming to explore the effect of human resource management on innovation, this study
examined how employment relationships (ER), human capital and social capital work …

This study explores the interrelationship between absorptive capacity and knowledge
sharing, which are innovation-specific antecedents of innovative behaviour. By …

This study investigates the importance of human capital on the firms' absorptive capacity, in
relation to firms' innovative performance. The estimation of an ordered probit model …

Organisations are finding it increasingly more difficult to keep abreast with the pace of
change. The continuous rise in the number of business opportunities and the increase in …

Purpose This paper aims to study the effects of knowledge acquisition on innovation
performance and the moderating effects of human resource management (HRM), in terms of …

The objective of this paper is to test how human resources management (HRM) practices
and employees' knowledge influence the development of innovative capabilities and, by …

Firms that invest in R&D and also in worker training are expected to be successful
innovators; yet, the extent to which these investments are mutually reinforcing has not been …