Knowledge Management is frequently cited as one enabler of firm innovation especially among Western corporations. There is scant reported research that supports for such empirical links especially in the Malaysian context. There is a need for local research to address the KM practices, concepts, instruments, and effects. Using data from 149 Malaysian large manufacturing firms, a KM practices su...

Henry Ford Health System is a vertically integrated health care system in southeastern Michigan whose leadership is committed to systemic integration, clinical excellence, and customer value through the core competencies of collaboration, care coordination, and innovation and learning. Henry Ford’s care innovation initiatives are multidisciplinary, team-led projects that target improvements in ...

In 2006, the National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted an assessment of the U.S. measurement system (USMS), which encompasses all private and public organizations that develop, supply, use, or ensure the validity of measurement results. As part of that assessment, NIST collaborated with Energetics Incorporated to identify and authenticate 723 measurement needs that are barriers t...

Corporate sustainability is increasingly regarded as a management task. Thereby, especially environmental performance is becoming an important indicator. This paper addresses a measurement approach of evaluating environmental performance from an innovation perspective. Based on the insights from action research at a multinational corporation in Germany, we stress the importance of environmental...

A major challenge in process improvement is to understand process innovation and improvement efficiency and use. How do we know that process innovations and improvements give organizational benefits? We need a mechanism for measuring. In this paper, we report from a longitudinal action research study at the telecom company Ericsson where a measurement mechanism was designed and successfully use...

Based on an in-depth case study of the ecosystem of one of the world ́s largest healthcare companies including internal and external data collected since 2009, and through over 50 interviews with key stakeholders from Biotech companies, Academia, Contract Research Organizations, and Venture Capital firms this article elaborates on the challenges and opportunities of collaborative innovation in t...

Introduction Collaborative innovation is a trans-disciplinary approach for developing the wholeness synergy to improve the competitiveness of an organization through holistic, competitive and complementary interactions between and among innovation participants in a specific environment (Bommert, 2010; Swink, 2006). The collaborative innovation system essentially consists of three sectors: indus...

innovation is the key to organizational survival and therefore, it seems necessary to study and identify its affecting factors such as intellectual capital as one of the most important of new organizational intangible assets. considering the importance of this issue, the main purpose of this research was to study the effect of intellectual capital on organizational innovation in the agricultura...

The Net-Enabled Business Innovation Cycle (NEBIC) was offered by Wheeler [1] as a subjective understanding of how firms can gain competitive advantage through enabling and emerging technologies (ET). NEBIC consists of four capabilities that lead a firm from choosing ET, to matching ET with business opportunities, executing for growth, and assessing customer value. The first capability of NEBIC ...

The aim of this paper is to explain how sticky-knowledge theory (Szulanski, 1996;2003) is applicable to both knowledge transfer as well as innovation diffusion when applied to promoting innovation. Knowledge about how innovation drivers and inhibitors can assist project-based organisations to be more competitive is important in improving processes of applying innovation that can enhance project...