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...

Purpose This study aims to determine the effect of organizational learning capability (OLC) on innovation (OI) and identify type that is accorded more emphasis by Ethiopian manufacturing firms. Design/methodology/approach applied an explanatory research design, cross-sectional data were gathered through structured questionnaires from general HR managers 197 firms in Addis Ababa Oromia, Ethiopia...

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...

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...

In knowledge-based economy, knowledge has a public good and non-rivalry nature. Firms build their own knowledge stock not only by means of internal R&D and collaboration with partners, but also by means of previously spilled over knowledge of other firms and public research laboratories (such as universities). Firms based on their absorptive capacity, and level of intra-industry and extra-indus...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Harri Paananen Name of the doctoral dissertation Balancing Acts – Managing Inter-Organizational Collaboration for Innovation Publisher School of Science Unit Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 113/2015 Field of research Business Process Networks...

In light of information technology (IT) increasingly leading to enterprise transformation in contemporary firms, we aim to build a theory of IT-enabled capabilities in innovation activity of the firm. For so doing, we extensively review almost five hundred innovation studies in organization and IS literature and conduct a thematic analysis to identify theoretical underpinnings of innovation res...

information technology is a critical tool for companies to achieve the competitive advantage and organizational innovation. it capability provides an appropriate opportunity for retailers to improve their relationships with customers and progress firms’ performance. comes with advances in technology, retail industry by using information technology has changed its business process from tradition...