In order to understand the organizational sources of continuous innovation, the paper provides an in– depth analysis of a leading company in the hearing aid industry, which showed impressive ability to develop and introduce innovation in the Nineties. Findings focus on three dynamic capabilities used by the innovator, and their resource-based nature. Discussion points to the generalization of t...

How innovation programs fail and innovation networks deviate from legal paths is a problem not yet fully understood. The complex interdependence between blockages of innovation and organizational corruption is a novel field of research in innovation studies. Equally, traditional approaches to explain opportunity-driven criminal behavior of individuals fail to explicate organizationally driven r...

We demonstrate that the concepts of competence destroying and competence enhancing are composed of two distinct constructs which, although correlated, separately characterize an innovation: new competence acquisition and competence enhancement/destruction. We develop scales to measure these constructs and show that new competence acquisition and competence enhancing/destroying are different fro...

On a weighted sample of more than 1500 firms from the French manufacturing industries, we explore the relation between individual organizational practices dedicated to innovation and the output of the process. 16 different organizational practices are identified dealing with the constraints or objective applied to employees. The belonging to a national and foreign group is also considered. Cont...

In today’s dynamic and hypercompetitive business environment, knowledge and innovation have emerged as bases for sustained competitive advantage. This paper addresses two specific research questions. First, we ask, “What is the effect that firm interactivity has on various types of innovation?” As we address this question, we explain that interactivity helps firms create knowledge, which then p...

Online cyber-bullying has become a frequent occurrence in organizations. To understand individual dispositions and the organizational factors that effect online cyber-bullying, the present study investigates the relationship among positive affect, the perceived organizational innovation climate, and psychological responses to cyber-bullying. The research samples for this study are staff members...

This chapter provides an overview of the overall approaches and organizational architecture for innovation in large corporations. An overall typology for how companies approach innovation is indicated in figure 1. On the ordinate is the focus of the innovation effort – which may be internal or external. Internal innovation effort refers to the development of products or services which grow the ...

Innovation is a critical enabler for firms to create value and sustain competitive advantage in the increasingly complex and rapidly changing environment. Firms with greater innovativeness will be more successful in responding to changing environments and in developing new capabilities that allow them to achieve better performance. Innovation initiatives tend to depend heavily on employees’ kno...

The introduction of new technologies has become critical for the maintenance and improvement of organizational competitive advantages. In this context, various studies have highlighted the importance of top management support in the process of effective implementation of new technologies. However, and beyond that, little research has been carried out to show the impact that this support has on ...