during the last one hundred years, the organizational and management knowledge have undergone fundamental changes. at the beginning of the 1980s, organizations paid great attention to creativity and innovation. today, organizations should be creative, so that they would continue to survive: therefore, the best way is to encourage creative people to be entrepreneurs in the organizational structu...

Innovation is a new and wide scoped subject not only for the field of social science, but also research in various fields associated with creativity and ingenuity. Organizational learning has also been a hotspot research subject which has been analysed and put profound importance upon in order to boost firm performance. The main purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between org...

This article is part of a book entitled Productivity, Innovation. Management and Development : A study in the Productivity Culture of Nations and System Renewal. The book was supported by a grant from the Quality Improvement Programme of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. The initiation, implementation, and development of productivity and innovation require skills, creativity, commitme...

New devices for the interaction between humans and computers open undiscovered opportunities for designers and organizational researchers. One of those is the multi-touch technology: without mouse and keyboard, the display recognizes simultaneous multiple fingers pressure from various users, unlike its precursor touchscreen which detects only one touch pressure. Like many other participative to...

This paper aims to provide a conceptual basis for creating semi-virtual communities that facilitate knowledge creation and sharing that seeks to promote organizational innovativeness. In addition, based on the theoretical discussion, the paper proposes a concrete context that supports and stimulates the conversion of personal knowledge into new innovations and organizational decisions. As a met...

3 Introduction The printing industry is undergoing numerous changes. The advancement of digital technologies has profoundly impacted the ways in which information is conveyed to consumers and has given people the ability to produce documents on their own, thereby limiting reliance on traditional print companies. As an example of this phenomenon , Freeman and Rothenberg (2006) report on decreasi...