Innovation is the key to the economic development in today’s knowledge driven economy. World markets increasingly demand knowledge-intensive production and innovation-based competition. Iran still remains largely a natural-resource-based economy. To become competitive in today’s market it needs urgent shift towards a more knowledge-based economy which requires strong innovation system. This stu...

The object of this research is to identify the sources of risk in innovation projects and to determine whether they could be managed better. Due to the diversity of opinions and theories over the nature of risk, reaching an agreement about risk management is difficult. This will be a major problem if any effort is made to proactively manage ‘risk’ in naturally ‘risky’ areas such as innovation. ...

nowadays, knowledge sharing as one of the components of knowledge management process, has a significant role in organization success. knowledge causes organizations to be able to acquire knowledge faster and more effective than before, and also apply it which therefore cause them to create competitive advantage. this research is an attempt to investigate the effects of knowledge sharing on inno...

The BIVEE project addresses the challenge of innovation management in Virtual Enterprise Environments. BIVEE aims to formalize the processes and models for improvement and innovation management in virtual enterprises by developing a conceptual framework and corresponding ICT platform. In this paper, we present a document centric approach towards the identification and formalization of the docum...

The study empirically tested a research model for identifying the linkages among IT management mechanism, IT application level and IT application innovation level, based on a sample of 530 manufacturing enterprises in Jiangsu Province, China. Results indicated that IT management mechanism had significant and positive influences on IT application level and IT application innovation level. Meanwh...

Corporate entrepreneurship is a growing field of study that has been gaining ground in recent decades. Entrepreneurship exists in large and stable organizations and small and medium enterprises. Therefore, entrepreneurial business form include entrepreneurial practices in organizations, profit-making practices, and opportunity recognition. Also, entrepreneurship encourages competition in the en...

Innovation Management generally combines high costs with a high rate of failure. The resulting risk can be approached with an assessment of the organizational innovation capability. For this purpose, Innovation Capability Maturity Models (ICMMs) have been developed by recent research. This paper strives to make these models applicable for networks, by considering the differing requirements of a...

This paper examines the role of knowledge management and organisational learning in quality management and organisational innovation, and proposes an integrative and holistic model of the Learning Approach to Quality and Innovation, incorporating relevant insights from each perspective. The cross-disciplinary model postulates a higher platform of competitive advantage based on creative quality ...

How to effectively implement environmental management practices and supply chain integration to enhance technological innovation performance has become crucial in both research and practice. Based on resource-based view (RBV) theory, a theoretical model to determine the relationship between environmental management practices, supply chain integration, supply chain knowledge sharing, and technol...