Amélie Cloutier

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor at University of Quebec in Montreal

RÉSUMÉ Le but de cet article est d‘étudier l‘effet de la taille, de l‘âge, de l’intensité de R-D et du réseautage du dirigeant sur la propension et l’intensité de coopération en matière d’innovation. L'analyse est basée sur un échantillon de 273 PME manufacturières situées au Québec, Canada. Jusqu’ici, la coopération en matière d’innovation a été l...

For small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), innovation co-operation represents a promising avenue to get around limitations and increase their innovation capacity. But under which conditions are firms more susceptible to engage in such ventures? The purpose of this research paper is to further our understanding of the factors contributing to inn...

Purpose Ongoing improvements in sports management, marketing, fan experience, as well as corporate social responsibility (CSR) must be implemented by professional team sport organisations (PTSO). Yet, little is known about how and why PTSOs account for the impacts of their CSR initiatives. Design This case study analyses a one-of-a-kind sport for...

More insights are needed about how to overcome situations where conventional leadership breaks down. By teasing apart concepts and processes associated with the inclusion of unconventional leaders, Greimas and Courtès’ actantial model is leveraged to collate the relationships threaded by the actors involved with the 2018 rescue mission of the Wild...

The recent health crisis has particularly affected small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Some have had to temporarily close their doors. Others chose to innovate by developing new products to take advantage of the situation and survive. However, innovation is a risky strategy, so there are many failures. Innovation collaboration is one way of...

This paper summarizes a comprehensive and systematic review of 29 quantitative studies from peer-reviewed journals published in ranked publications between 1992 to 2015 on the determinants of innovation co-operation for manufacturing SMEs. Applying a documented methodology, it crystallizes acquired knowledge by identifying, synthesizing and discuss...

Purpose: This paper examines relationships between fact management and innovation. How and why a sport for development agency contributes to social innovation by transforming data into accounting assets. Design/methodology/approach: Actor-Network Theory is used to retrace how and why the managers at Special Olympics Canada innovate as they craft ne...

La coopération en innovation est une avenue porteuse pour les PME manufacturières puisqu'elles effectuent généralement des activités moins formelles de recherche et de développement. Quelles en sont les pratiques pour celles situées dans une région réputée pour son esprit entrepreneurial et sa forte concentration de PME manufacturières : Chaudière-...

For SMEs, innovation co-operation represents a promising avenue to get around limitations and increase their innovation capacity. But under which conditions are firms more susceptible to engage in such ventures? The purpose of this research paper is to further our understanding of the factors contributing to innovation co-operation for manufacturin...

This paper summarizes a systematic review of published empirical research from 1992 to 2015 on the determinants of innovation co-operation for manufacturing SMEs. It crystallizes acquired knowledge by identifying, synthesizing and discussing 220 unique determinants stemming from a vast and heterogeneous body of literature. The article introduces an...

La coopération en matière d’innovation, qui est un élément important des politiques mondiales de soutien à l’innovation (Arvanitis & Bolli, 2012), est un phénomène dont plusieurs chercheurs se sont intéressés à évaluer empiriquement l’importance grandissante (par exemple Arvanitis & Bolli, 2012; de Faria, Lima, & Santos, 2010; Edwards-Schachter, Ca...

For organizations, knowledge about the business environment is needed more than ever because of its rapidly evolving nature. However, due to the increasing amount of information readily available, the task of scoping the environment may be daunting and there is a need to optimize it. In the literature, structured intelligence processes take differe...

Over the past 10 years, the Aquarium du Quebec (Province of Quebec, Canada) went from being a fish out of water to being the king of the pond by doubling its attendance. To do so, it offered its customers a new or significantly improved product, while changing its organizational and marketing methods. The purpose of this qualitative study is to ide...

The purpose of this qualitative study is to identify the determinants of innovation for property and casualty insurers. The study aims to facilitate the willingness of organizations to innovate by defining the proper context within which to do so. To our knowledge, no researcher has until today studied the determinants of innovation specific to tha...