This working paper sets up the basis for investigating the role of IT capabilities in the context of large and distributed service organizations. The idea grounded in this article resides in the possibility that absorptive capacity has an impact on service innovation. Addressing some theories on absorptive capacity and on service innovation we provide a brief insight on the importance that IT s...

1 Gérard Lachiver, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada J1K 2R1 [email protected] 2 Jacques Tardif, Département de pédagogie, Faculté d’éducation, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada J1K 2R1 [email protected] Abstract  This paper describes general guidelines for fostering and managing curriculum change that we used to ...

This article defines and examines the concept of innovation, as a radical change in Public Administration that can be defined translating into new processes, technologies, creation products introduction values Administration. New public management models mean forms paradigms management. discussion characteristics each model through history, specifically underlining break introduced by Managemen...

What factors explain the success of the UK Cabinet Office's Behavioural Insights Team? To answer this question, this article applies insights from organizational theory, particularly accounts of change agents. Change agents are able-with senior sponsorship-to foster innovation by determination and skill: they win allies and circumvent more traditional bureaucratic procedures. Although Behaviour...

In standard endogenous growth models, the higher the research e¤ort the higher is the innovation rate of the economy. Innovating, however, is a complex process that requires an entrepreneur to implement a valuable invention. Hence when research and entrepreneurial skills compete in the allocation of aggregate resources, the relation between growth and R&D is hump-shaped. This paper proposes a m...