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Autonomous strategic actions (ASA) can be a powerful source of strategic renewal. However, not much is known about what triggers middle- and lower-level members of an organization to engage in such bottom-up entrepreneurial activities. This paper aims at narrowing this gap. It empirically studies the role of autonomy and top-management support, as well as declining firm performance and their interplay...
Managing Technology effectively and competitively in a fast-moving globalised world has become an increasingly challenging endeavour. Design, Information and Action (DIA) as defined by the authors have been found to be key aspects which significantly influence the degree of innovation, competitiveness and business leadership achievable. A technology management model was developed on the basis of these...
The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of how top performing new service development activities within knowledge intensive business services are implemented in Chinese context. Data were collected via questionnaires through face-to-face interviews with managers knowledgeable about new service development in their organization (sample size 192). Discriminant analysis was chosen...
This paper considers system adoption and diffusion over time in the Taiwan mutual fund industry. We use a rhetorical lens to explore the interaction between different actors in this context. Our interpretation of the case utilizes, and enables reflection on, the theory of innovation diffusion and dynamic affordance. We introduce the concept of rhetorical affordance and conclude that the diffusion...
Many important sources of production innovation came from customers and suppliers. Marketing planning in SMEs is constrained by limited time and money, limited expertise, this paper introduced the context of innovation and product innovation, discussed the advantage of small and middle enterprise(SME) to develop their product innovation, researched the relation between market orientation and product...
Dynamic changes and variations play a decisive role in innovation processes. By addressing the aspect of cycles that is reoccurring temporal or structural patterns within development processes as well as in their context, this research contributes to an enhanced understanding of complex dynamic interdependencies. Therefore, two development projects are analyzed and a series of interviews with industry...
This paper examines post-adoption behavior (continue to use or not) within the context of B2B e-marketplace in China. first, based on innovation diffusion theory and relative research, ten key factors effecting organizations to continue to use B2B e-marketplace are identified, the theoretic model is built based on TOE framework and 10 hypotheses are formulated. Then, the model and ten hypothesis are...
This study conducts three types of relational embedded configuration based on the relational embedded ties between the focal firm and its partners-customer, supplier, competitor and research institution. The effects of configurations on service innovation are contingent on service innovation types. From internal perspective, the network competence of a firm can enhance the performance of service innovation...
The concept of absorptive capacity has been part of the strategy and innovation discourse for a few decades. As industry and business practices have evolved, so has the understanding of the mechanisms responsible for developing and growing the absorptive capacity of contemporary organizations. In this paper, we trace the evolution of this concept and its operationalization and measurement. We particularly...
Business Intelligence (BI) innovation may have stagnated given the combined forces of a down economy and the mergers and acquisitions that have reshaped the BI vendor space. To catalyze needed innovation, a new challenge is issued that focuses on advancing global services growth. That challenge is contextualized as one requiring piecemeal advancements within specific service industries before generalization...
This paper examines the contextual factors that influenced an open innovation project failure. To this end the paper adds to the discussion on open innovation in non high-tech settings and highlights the importance of contextual factors as determinants of success or failure within the open innovation paradigm. It is based on a case study performed at PowerDrive, a manufacturer of hydraulic drive systems,...
The transition to post-industryism has generated a range of new tensions between welfare arrangements and labor market performance, which confront today's welfare states with new challenges for employment-friendly recalibration, such as activation and work-care conciliation. Hence, the question of whether, how and to what extent current welfare states are able to adapt to the conditions and needs...
Leveraging resource involves the set of processes (i.e., mobilizing, coordinating and deploying) used to exploit a firm's capabilities to take advantage of specific markets' opportunities and create value for customers and wealth for its owners in the marketplace. Entrepreneurial spirit is able to promote the flow, transmit and diffuse of knowledge, which play the vital role at the process of resource...
The paper applies an evolutionary perspective to the study of clusters by analyzing the interrelated develop process of entrepreneurs and industry cluster transformation. It argues how the exogenous and endogenous forces of high-tech industry in which an entrepreneur lives and works has a fundamental impact upon their ability to recognize and exploit opportunities, correspondingly, this paper also...
Companies are looking for Technology Foresight (TF) models to focus strategy and innovation management. This paper establishes an ldquoimplementationrdquo gap in TF practices based on empirical research in multinational companies in Europe and Japan. The ldquoimplementationrdquo gap refers to the neglected use of TF results in strategy and innovation management. Thus the paper suggests a TF model...
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