Foreign direct investment (FDI) is assumed to be a source of knowledge flows across National Innovation Systems, with particular relevance for developing countries. Nonetheless, empirical assessments are usually manufacturing-oriented, providing only a partial view of the phenomena under scrutiny. This article aims at contributing to this body of literature by investigating the impacts of inwar...

The diffusion of innovative ideas throughout a social network of innovators depends crucially on how people are connected and influence each other, and particularly on the advocacy of influential individuals. We contend that existing conceptualizations of innovation diffusion and peer influence do not suffice to capture the multi-faceted nature of idea diffusion. To address this challenge, we a...

The rapid development of e-commerce brings new opportunities for small and mediumsized enterprises, especially in developing countries as China. Under the background of ecommerce, enterprise's performance has been rapid ascension, at the same time, the enterprise performance evaluation is particularly important. In this paper, we make empirical analysis about the impact of human resource manage...

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To analyse the impact of implementation and use of eHealth services is fraught with difficulty, and there is often a gap between expected and identified outcomes. In this paper, we identify innovation effects of an eHealth service by applying a framework that focusses on the expected coherent impacts of implementing an IT innovation and contributes to the body of knowledge on tracking innovatio...

One of the forms in service innovation for universities in Taiwan is to develop transnational education such as offshore programs where the existent programs were re-innovated by providing new service processes including improved delivery or distribution methods. This study examined how the universities adopted this form of innovation and examined how they productize their offshore programs, co...

Information technology (IT) impacts almost every business unit inside the enterprise. However, the role of the IT organization as an enabler of growth and driver of business innovation is mostly ignored. In this paper we introduce six nonIT companies which asses IT innovations as important for their strategy and competitive advantage. Four companies already created formalized structures for man...

Digital innovation entails the combining of digital and physical components to produce novel products. The materiality of digital artifacts, particularly the separation between their material (e.g., hardware) and immaterial features (e.g., software and data), which is expressed through a layered architecture, lays the foundation for the generative potential of digital innovation. Gaining an und...

With the rapid growth of mobile technology, m-government services, which are an extension of egovernment, are increasingly becoming an effective alternative. However, similar to other information and communications technology innovations, m-government faces multiple known and unknown challenges at various levels. Although organizational culture has been mentioned in extant literature, this chal...