Innovation: Brushing up on business

Brushing up on Polymers

A symposium on the topic was held at the ACS national meeting in New Orleans last month. It was cosponsored by the Divisions of Polymer Chemistry and Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering. The symposium was organized by Brittain; University of Houston associate chemistry professor Rigoberto C. Advincula; Duke University senior research scientist Kenneth C. Caster; and Jürgen Rühe, professo...

Brushing up on use of chemical indicators.

Leveraging Co-innovation Practices on Business-to-Business Virtual Communities

This study integrates the lens of social influence theory, virtual communities of practice, and practicebased view into a theoretical model to understand the role of social influence in B2B virtual communities in the collaboration of innovation activities with co-creating users. Specifically, the main goal of this study is to unravel the relationships among social influence, contribution behavi...

The Effect of Innovation on Business Networks

An innovation has a number of effects on business networks, actors, their roles and activities. Mobile payment can serve as a good illustration of that. The main aim of the paper is to identify what kind of effect innovative mobile payment services have on business networks in retailing. Several of IMP tradition approaches have been applied for the analysis of findings: (i) actors, resources, a...

Business process innovation based on stakeholder perceptions

The literature offers a multitude of modeling and assessment techniques to represent differing enterprise stakeholder perspectives and interests in business process innovation. While each technique yields valuable insights into possibilities for innovating business processes, these insights are limited as they are derived from a particular perspective. This paper presents an alternate approach ...