Knowledge, Learning and Innovation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Knowledge, Learning and Innovation: Research into Cross-Sector Collaboration

   • Vanessa Ratten, Carla Susana Marques, Vitor Braga

   Pages 1-4

3. Entrepreneurial Competencies and Firm Performance in Emerging Economies: A Study of Women Entrepreneurs in Malaysia

   • Noor Hazlina Ahmad, Yuliani Suseno, Pi-Shen Seet, Pattanee Susomrith, Zaiben Rashid

   Pages 5-26

4. Can Online Co-creation Influence Lead Users’ and Opinion Leaders’ Behaviors?

   • Mathilde Bru, Laurent Scaringella

   Pages 27-47

5. Knowledge and Innovation in Portuguese Enterprises

   • Vanessa Ratten, Carmem Leal, Marlene Loureiro, Rui Silva, Alexandra Braga

   Pages 49-58

6. Social Ties and Human Capital in Family SMEs’ Internationalization

   • Masoud Karami, Cici Xiao He, Shang Zhengang

   Pages 59-73

7. Perceived Social Support and Social Entrepreneurship: Gender Perspective from Turkey

   • Ayşe Gökçen Kapusuz, Mustafa Fedai Çavuş, Nazmiye Ülkü Pekkan

   Pages 75-90

8. Entrepreneurship Challenges and Gender Issues in the African Informal Rural Economy

   • Paul Igwe, Robert Newbery, Afam Icha-Ituma

   Pages 91-111

9. The Construction of a Professional Identity of a Female Entrepreneur

   • Qiuhong Boers, Börje Boers

   Pages 113-122

10. Knowledge Creation and Relationship Marketing in Family Businesses: A Case-Study Approach

    • Veland Ramadani, Lutfije Ademi, Vanessa Ratten, Ramo Palalić, Norris Krueger

    Pages 123-157

11. The Gender Question and Family Entrepreneurship Research

    • Ogechi Adeola, Michael Zisuh Ngoasong, Olaniyi Evans

    Pages 159-176

12. A Composite Index Approach to Detecting Reporting Quality: The Case of Female Executives in Family Firms

    • Gianluca Ginesti, Carlo Drago, Riccardo Macchioni

    Pages 177-190

13. Influencing Factors in Customers’ Intention to Re-visit Resort Hotels: The Roles of Customer Experience Management and Customer Value

    • Bachruddin Saleh Luturlean, Ratih Hurriyati, Lili Adi Wibowo, Grisna Anggadwita

    Pages 191-207

This book places knowledge, learning and innovation at the heart of cross-sector collaborations. Collaboration for innovation is a topic that has attracted widespread interest from academics, business strategists and government officials. To date the collaborations have focused on the performance management process and more specifically on how to encourage collaboration. However, businesses across the world are realizing that for cross-sector collaboration to be successful, it is necessary for firms to share knowledge and innovation through a process of learning. The book contributes to this by providing fresh insights into ways to stimulate cross-sector collaboration. It presents diverse methods and approaches to unify the dimensions of knowledge, learning and innovation and discusses how collaboration can be created, sustained, and expanded.

• Collaborative innovation
• Co-creation across industries
• Organizational learning
• Knowledge spillovers
• Innovation management process
• Cross-sector innovation solutions
• Innovation analysis
• Innovation as competitive advantage
• Information exchange process
• Information retrieval from collaborations
• Knowledge sharing strategies

 

“Knowledge, Learning and Innovation” edited by Vanessa Ratten, Vitor Braga and Carla Susana Marques offers interesting and novel perspectives on a crucial topic for the management and growth of small family-owned firms: cross-sector collaborations. Prior literature acknowledges the relevance of collaborations between organizations from different sectors in order to promote the production of knowledge and innovation. The present book integrates such body of knowledge by providing several interesting real-world cases that illustrate in detail how small and medium firms worldwide can learn and innovate effectively via such inter-organizational relationships. “Knowledge, Learning and Innovation” is composed by 12 chapters written from authors from all around the world (e.g., Portugal, Italy, Australia, Malaysia, Turkey and many more). These chapters deal with a variety of topics such as business quality, value co-creation, customerexperience management, gender & social entrepreneurship, social ties by reporting detailed business cases, rich of practical insights for book readers.” (Dr Francesco Schiavone, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy)    

“The book titled “Knowledge, learning and Innovation: Research Insights on Cross-Sector Collaboration” is composed of 12 chapters with 40 contributors and edited by three editors. The first chapter is regarded as the main reflection of the rest of other chapters, in which the issue of ‘knowledge, learning and innovation’ is comprehensively elaborated and justified in term of its conceptual perspectives and applications. In other words, the selection of works to be included in this book was obviously concurrent and appropriate.” (Muhamadul Bakir, Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia)  

“Knowledge, innovation and learning provides an innovative overview of cross-sector collaborations.  The authors of the chapters are international with research from Malaysia, Turkey, France, Portugal, Indonesia and Australia. The book provides interesting research about different ways businesses are involved in collaboration from a number of different perspectives. I highly recommend the book.” (Dr Jane Menzies, Deakin University, Australia)

• La Trobe University , Melbourne, Australia

  Vanessa Ratten

• Polytechnic Institute of Porto , Porto, Portugal

  Vitor Braga

• University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Do , Vila Real, Portugal

  Carla Susana Marques

Vanessa Ratten is an Associate Professor (Entrepreneurship and Innovation) at La Trobe Business School, La Trobe University. Dr Ratten is the discipline coordinator of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at La Trobe Business School. She teaches both undergraduate, postgraduate and Executive Education courses on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Sport Innovation, Management and Marketing for Sustainable Value Creation and Entrepreneurial Business Planning. Ratten’s main research areas include entrepreneurship (especially sport entrepreneurship, developing country entrepreneurship and international entrepreneurship) and innovation (focusing on technological innovation, cloud computing, mobile commerce). She has published on a wide range of subjects including European entrepreneurship, Asian entrepreneurship and tourism marketing.

Vitor Braga is an Associate Professor at the School of Technology and Management of Felgueiras, Polytechnic of Porto. He is the director of the BusinessSciences BSc, the head of the business sciences department and the director of the MSc in International Management. His main research interests deal with entrepreneurship processes, such as co-operation, internationalization and innovation. He is also part of the Entrepreneurship Education Project: Enhancing Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Identity, coordinated by the University of Wisconsin and the Illinois State University and involving universities across 70 countries worldwide.

Carla Susana Marques is an Associate Professor at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, based in Vila Real, Portugal. 

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