Innovation Strategies and Economic Crisis: Evidence from Firm-level Italian Data

摘要: The disruptive economic downturn of the period 2008-2009, forced industrial firms to implementstrategies, in order survive and generate new competiveness sources. One such strategic behavioursregards way intervention on several innovation areas through different strategies. Disentanglingthe effect pre-crisis adopted innovations, relations quality performanceon strategies may be extreme relevance analyse nexus between reactions challengesbrought by crisis capacity proactively tackle downturns.The present work provides an empirical analysis basis more than 500 Italian manufacturingfirms located Emilia-Romagna region. results suggest existence strong relationships betweenpre-crisis innovative activities react challenges brought crisis. Thishappens strategies, whose contents are mainly product (technological competitiveness),process organisation/HRM dimensions (cost competitiveness/efficiency gaining). Complementaryinnovative emerge as a key factor. Industrial is also related strategicreaction crisis: participative support adoption diversified typesof There is, instead, no evidence relation past performanceand actions