This paper presents the results of a mail survey used to investigate the relationship between continuous improvement/innovation management practices and SME performance in Australia. Multi-item scales were developed and used to measure key components of continuous improvement and innovation management. Nine dimensions of SME performance were measured, for example, speed to market, success rate ...

The term ‘knowledge’ is getting increased importance as the economy is becoming progressively knowledge intensive. Contemporary view of innovation management is acknowledging knowledge as the most effective source of innovation. Success of the business depends on how successfully knowledge is used for innovation. As a result, organizations are increasingly embracing knowledge strategy for their...

In recent years, though, the concept of fit has been now in widespread used in strategic management research, it is in its infancy for applying fit concept to service innovation issue. Therefore, drawing on the concept of fit, this present research proposed an innovation service fit model within service innovation, market orientation, marketing strategy, and IT adoption are coexisted. The persp...

The purpose of this research is determining the Value Innovation in Social Computing platforms by an intelligent system. Here a Fuzzy Expert System has been designed with the consideration of four actions of Blue Ocean Strategy as input variables. The Value Innovation level is determined in this system as output. The rules of systems have been extracted from some entrepreneurship experts and th...

In this paper, we researched on effects of knowledge resources to the enterprise cooperation innovation strategy select, and established an evolutionary game model of cooperative innovation between members of Virtual Industry Cluster. This study got some results like: the probability of cooperative strategy has positive correlation with income coefficient of knowledge resources and mutual confi...

This thesis derives a seven-stage methodology and presents a case study for developing an actionable innovation strategy for manufacturing firms. The methodology is based around a careful examination of their firm's circumstances, or external context and internal praxis. How a firm should innovate is dependent on industry environment, firm activities, technology competencies, internal culture, ...

Study presented in this paper, the proportion of total quality management operations mediating role between organizational strategy and performance checks. With a comprehensive review of quality management in relation to strategy, the study seeks to improve understanding of total quality management philosophy in the field is wider. The conflicts in the literature about the relationship between ...

BACKGROUND Particularly when undertaken on a large scale, implementing innovation in higher education poses many challenges. Sustaining the innovation requires early adoption of a coherent implementation strategy. Using an example from clinical education, this article describes a process used to implement a large-scale innovation with the intent of achieving sustainability. Desire to improve th...

Purpose: This article examines the significance of innovation to organisations following strategies of entrepreneurial orientation. In particular, the study looks at the significance innovation adds to the implementation of contemporary management control systems (MCSs) and to improved performance in these organisations. Design/methodology/approach: A quantitative analysis was conducted based o...