The increasing awareness of global climate change puts more pressure on firms to reduce their environmental externalities. Managers long ignored this responsibility, which may erode business profits, going against traditional goals. In study, we examine the effect top management's extrinsic incentives (i.e., reward-driven motivation) corporate innovation strategy eco-innovation) using a large d...

The current lack of integration of Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC), Innovation, IT and Strategy results in lost opportunities for growth. If a recent KPMG (2011) Report reflects the true picture, less than 10% of businesses today demonstrate full integration of GRC activities with their business strategy. This paper argues for Board level support for better ‘Absorptive Capacity’ across the...

Unpredictability has two main sources: epistemic uncertainty and ontological unpredictability. When disruptive and downstream innovation become frequent, ontological unpredictability becomes increasingly important for innovation policy and strategy. The analysis of the nature of ontological unpredictability explains why future-oriented technology analysis and foresight frequently fails to grasp...

Firms rely on effective innovation processes to develop innovative products essential to their competitive strategy. Systems that support the innovation processes have strategic relevance and are critical to the firm’s success and growth. More research is needed to explain how we can effectively coordinate the KM activities required for effective innovation processes. This paper will answer the...

In an attempt to enhance debate focused on an established academic controversy, this study re-investigated selected data from the 1994 AMC survey of Australian and New Zealand manufacturing practices to test the hypothesis that best practice and product innovation may be incompatible generic business strategies. A modification of Robert G. Cooper’s Stage-Gate product development model was used ...

Recent studies on design management have helped us to better comprehend how companies can apply design to get closer to users and better understand their needs; an approach usually referred to as “user centered design”. Yet, analysis of design-intensive manufacturers such as Alessi, Artemide and other leading Italian firms, show that their innovation process hardly starts from a close observati...