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Innovation performance is seen as the backbone of firm's sustained competitive advantages. Scholars of the dynamic capability view suggest that Intellectual Capital (IC), such as human, structural, and relational capital, are the main driving force of a firm's Innovation Performance (IP). The purpose of this study is to investigate the importance of developing firms' intellectual capital and their role in leveling up innovation performance. In doing so, this paper conducts an examination by moderating the variable of Innovation Ambidexterity (IA), namely explorative and exploitative activities. By applying a quantitative and cross-sectional design, the study deploys data feedback from managers and executives of manufacturing SMEs across the Moroccan national territory collected from 286 surveys. The results show that IC has a positive and significant impact on IP, while IA has a positive and significant effect on both IP and IC. The study also finds that IA failed to moderate the relationship between IC and IP. This study contributes to advancing the capability theory by adding the importance of developing and reconfiguring firm's human, structural, and relational capital as the main driving force of innovation performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: Oceanic islands have often been colonized by small groups of individuals dispersing from the nearest mainland, giving rise to insular populations characterized by locally adapted phenotypes and low genetic diversity. Alternatively, due to past geo‐climatic changes, the present‐day distribution of the species may not correspond to that found at the time of the original colonization so that the current mainland distribution may not include the original source area, leading to erroneous assumptions regarding colonization history. Here, we use patterns of genetic variation to evaluate alternative colonization scenarios of an insular passerine in the Canary Islands. Location: La Palma (Canary Islands), Northern Africa and the Iberian Peninsula. Taxon: Red‐billed chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax). Methods: We use phylogeographical and coalescent analyses of mitochondrial DNA sequences and 10 microsatellite loci, together with Bayesian demographic modelling, to determine whether choughs on the island of La Palma originate from (a) present‐day populations in Iberia, (b) present‐day populations in the mountains of inland Morocco or (c) former populations in coastal Morocco, where suitable habitat existed in the past. Results: Both the mitochondrial and nuclear datasets indicate that the chough population on La Palma is genetically well differentiated from those in Iberia and Morocco, and that La Palma choughs are more closely related to choughs in Iberia than to those in Morocco. Genetic diversity in La Palma is lower than that of mainland populations, but shows no evidence of past bottlenecks. The best supported demographic model to explain the origin of La Palma choughs that is congruent with both genetic datasets includes a 'ghost' population closely related to Iberia, from which the insular population diverged within the last 30,000 years. Main conclusions: Our results are most consistent with the existence of a former connection between La Palma and Iberia along the North African coast, when suitable habitat was found there. Subsequent desertification of these coastal areas led to local extinctions that restricted gene flow between Iberia and the islands, promoting genetic differentiation. Our results provide a counterintuitive solution to a biogeographical enigma, and could help resolve the colonization history of other systems with similarly complex climatic pasts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]