This paper aims to investigate the effect of transformational leadership on organizational innovation among line and senior managers of national Iranian gas company. This study is practical in terms of the objective, descriptive survey in terms of gathering data procedure and finally quantitative with regards to the gathered data. Our research population contains all of the line and senior mana...

This study examines climate for innovation as a method by which negative organizational consequences of demanding work may be lessened. It was expected that a climate for innovation would enable employees to develop coping mechanisms or improved work-related processes which counteract negative consequences of work demands. Extending the job demands–resource model (Karasek, 1979), we predicted a...

The recent research has highly examined innovation of businesses to improve their competitive advantages and the probability of their success. This study aimed to examine the association between intellectual, psychological, and social capital and business innovation in knowledge-based and high-technology businesses in Iran and if organizational culture moderates the relationships between the va...

A theoretical framework model that researches the interrelationship of organizational innovation, organizational performance and dynamic core competence of enterprise (DCCE) is proposed on the foundation of the analysis of measure dimensions which include four oriented organizational innovations and the four sub-core capabilities of DCCE and the three levels of variables of performance. By usin...

Within the innovation literature, inter-organizational cooperation is being advanced as instrumental for improving the innovative performance of firms. In addition, it has been suggested more recently, that inter-organizational cooperation can be instrumental for addressing the paradoxical requirements innovation strategies entail. At the same time-large scale-empirical evidence for such a rela...

A fundamental weakness of current research on corporate innovation communities is that knowledge about how to alter them for innovation endeavors remains vague. To help facilitate this gap, we analyze the influence of organizational contexts on innovation activities and outcomes from a contingency theory perspective. From the analysis of multiple in-depth case studies, four types of organizatio...

as an applied research, this study has used structural equations to examine the relationship between networkability, organizational learning and open innovation in order to assess the significance of relationships between variables in smes in the province of tehran. the statistical community of this study is the managers of smes in the province of tehran, but because of the vast geographical ar...

Context. Innovation is promoted in companies to help them stay competitive. Four types of innovation are defined: product, process, business, and organizational. Objective. We want to understand the perception of the innovation concept in industry, and particularly how the innovation types relate to each other. Method. We launched a survey at a branch of a multi-national corporation. Results. F...

Object-oriented (OO) technology was expected to rapidly replace traditional functional software technology due to its productivity and quality improvement potential in software development. Still, OO technology is not yet fully understood and utilized by information systems (IS) organizations. Despite the growing interest and attention of the IS researchers and practitioners, empirical research...