R&D internationalization and innovation: A systematic review, integrative framework and future research directions

R&D intensity, knowledge creation process and new product performance: The mediating role of international R&D teams

“…Despite the progress made toward understanding the importance of international research and development (R&D) teams (Ambos & Schlegelmilch, 2004) and the manner in which they influence innovation (Vrontis & Christofi, 2019), it remains unclear whether the use of international R&D teams could play a role in the relationship between R&D investment and new product success in small medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) especially in the context of emerging markets. Thus, our understanding of the exact mechanisms through which R&D intensity enhances NPP is relatively underexplored.…”

“…Thus, our understanding of the exact mechanisms through which R&D intensity enhances NPP is relatively underexplored. Since R&D teams are dispersed across the globe (see also Bustinza, Gomes, Vendrell-Herrero & Baines, 2019;Vrontis & Christofi, 2019), understanding the role of international R&D teams in SMEs could be a mechanism to develop a fine-grained understanding about the exact impact of R&D intensity on NPP.…”

High performance work system and sustainable development among Jordanian SMEs: knowledge sharing as a moderator

“…Knowledge as a key competency for an organization that contributes to making organizational implementation progress and improvement sustainable (Santoro et al, 2019c). The development and improvement supported in today's knowledge -based society stems from the ability to disseminate knowledge (Vrontis and Christofi, 2019). The ability of employees to transfer knowledge to each other may be a key factor in making a difference for organizational implementation progress and for creating worthy progress (Santoro et al, 2019a).…”

Service innovation and internationalization in SMEs: antecedents and profitability outcomes

“…First, in examining both service innovation and internationalization jointly in the SME context, we have highlighted their potential antecedents of entrepreneurial orientation and human capital, while at the same time as investigating an under-researched internationalization outcome in profitability. Thus, the study adds to the knowledge and arising discussion on the role of innovation in internationalizing SMEs (Genc et al 2019;Saridakis et al 2019;Vrontis and Christofi 2019;Weerawardena et al 2019), while also extending the study by Bello et al (2016) to account also for internationalization outcomes. Second, the findings contribute to the literature on the determinants of firm performance, and on the successful internationalization of high-technology SMEs (Bell 1995;Coviello and Munro 1997;Moen et al 2004;Saarenketo et al 2004;Vadana et al 2019)-a context relevant in IE.…”

“…One such area relates to clarifying the relationship between entrepreneurial internationalization and innovation further. The two have been found to be intertwined (Onetti et al 2012;Denicolai et al 2015), but whether innovation is a driver of internationalization (Golovko and Valentini 2011;Veglio and Zucchella 2015;Calvo and Villarreal 2019;Weerawardena et al 2019) or rather, if the opposite is the case (Kafouros et al 2008;Zahra et al 2009;Genc et al 2019;Vrontis and Christofi 2019) and under which conditions, could do with further study as the extant literature has found both types of relationships, and the linking literature overall is of recent origin (Hagen et al 2014). As Veglio and Zucchella (2015, p. 139) note, there are studies on the dynamics of innovation and internationalization, but mostly from the context of large companies (see Cano-Kollmann et al 2016).…”