In this paper, we will review the literature on technological innovation persistence and provide a general theoretical framework to analyze the main determinants of this innovative behavior. Moreover, no previous empirical study has taken into account organizational innovation practices as possible determinants of innovation persistence. We will therefore include them, as previous studies have ...

Advances in information technology (IT) have enabled firms to increasingly rely on open innovation. Although researchers and practitioners are interested in this phenomenon, there is a lack of theoretically driven research on how IT impacts organizational open innovation performance. Drawing on the strategic IT alignment perspective and related literature, we proposed a model to explain the per...

The fundamental role of knowledge for acquiring and maintaining competitive advantage emphasizes the need for effective and strategic KM in organizations. When effective and reliable methods drive approaches to KM, this in turn supports the integration of value-creating activities into organizational processes and increases an organization's potential to achieve innovation, agility and competit...

Many organizations are striving to survive and remain competitive in the current uncertain and rapidly changing economic environment. Businesses must innovate to face this volatility and maintain their competitiveness. Organizational learning is a complex process with many interrelated elements linking knowledge management with organizational innovation. In this paper we use several theories (i...

Extensive research has shown that organizational attributes affect product innovation. Extending this literature, this article delimits two general categories of organizational attributes and relates them to product innovation. Organizational attributes can be either control oriented or flexibility oriented. Control-oriented organizational attributes strive to realize organizational activities ...

Enterprise Systems (ES) or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems have been widely adopted by organizations around the world with the global market revenue estimated by AMR Research (2009) at 37.5 billion US dollars in 2008 and is expected to continue growing. Given the huge investments made by organizations for their ES implementations, many organizations have found it difficult to realize...

Open innovation is a paradigm related to knowledge sourcing. It argues that firms should take advantage of both external and internal ideas for innovation in organizations. The purpose of this research is to investigate how different knowledge management strategies and IT capabilities may have effects on the implementation of open innovation and whether the adoption of open innovation may affec...

The prerequisite for successful KM is to understand the employees, and to transfer their mindset, cultivate the culture of knowledge sharing, and integrate knowledge sharing with the entire organizational process, in order to utilize the human potential in organizations based on the transformation of organizational culture. This study investigated the influence of KM, organizational culture and...