The field of service innovation strategy has been criticized for its lack of a solid theoretical foundation. To address this issue, we investigate a configuration approach with the prevailing universalistic or contingency perspectives in exploring the effects of service innovation strategies on firm performance. Based on a service-oriented view, we begin by identifying three service innovation ...

The Web Service Modelling Ontology (WSMO) provides a unique, highly innovative perspective onto the Semantic Web Services domain. Robust and easy-to-use tools play crucial role for the adoption of any technological innovation and indeed the overall value of the innovation can be severely undermined by the lack of proper tools supporting it. In this paper we present a prototype of an integrated ...

in today's dynamic and uncertain environment, knowledge is a strategic source for organizations to gain the competitive advantage and innovation. in this research, we have investigated mediating role of knowledge management between environmental uncertainty and organizational innovation. data was collected through questionnaire from 89 large and medium sized manufacturing companies in suburb ma...

introduction: higher education administrators face with problems such as financial pressures, rapidly changing environment, competition with other higher education institutions to achieve higher academic rank and research, attracting students and more prone to grant more autonomy to faculty members .to overcome mentioned problems ,they can use methods such as; innovation in curriculum, support ...

Although leadership has been studied extensively, most research has focused on the political and military spheres. More recent work has also examined the role of leadership in sectors such as manufacturing and technology, both areas where it is essential to encourage and nurture innovation. Yet, in the health sector, where innovation is now high on the policy agenda in many countries, there is ...

Grutters et al show that economic assessments can inform the development of new health technologies at an early stage. This is an important contribution to health services and policy research, which implies a “shift away” from the more traditional forms of academic health economic modeling. Because transforming established disciplinary traditions is both valuable and de...

This paper presents the findings from a qualitative study on the extent to which three dimensions of proximity–geographic, cognitive, and organizational– impact knowledge transfer and innovation post-M&A. Findings show that the elements of proximity substantially influence both knowledge transfer and innovation although the nature of the impact varies and is influenced by the type of management...

The current lack of integration of Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC), Innovation, IT and Strategy results in lost opportunities for growth. If a recent KPMG (2011) Report reflects the true picture, less than 10% of businesses today demonstrate full integration of GRC activities with their business strategy. This paper argues for Board level support for better ‘Absorptive Capacity’ across the...

In recent years the proliferation of a new technological evolution has aroused great interest from science and practice: social media. Subsuming different types of online applications where users can create, edit and share content, social media enables new forms of interaction with others. Organisations already recognise its relevance and start leveraging on it. Furthermore, organisations ident...

Innovation ability plays an important role in economic growth not only in under- developed countries, but also in developed countries, especially when markets are in recession. In this paper, we analyzed changes in major developments in the context of innovation capacity and the causality relation between innovation and its sources through an empirical study based on the automotive subcontracto...