The world has a new disease: successful e-health pilots that are ended before the actual product or service commercialization phase. It is an epidemic disorder that seems to spread rapidly. This paper searches for a remedy against this disease. By exploring five successful cases where e-health went beyond the pilot phase, we hope to explorer some best practices that may show Africa the way to i...

BACKGROUND Consumer e-Health is a potential solution to the problems of accessibility, quality and costs of delivering public healthcare services to patients. Although consumer e-Health has proliferated in recent years, it remains unclear if patients are willing and able to accept and use this new and rapidly developing technology. Therefore, the aim of this research is to study the factors inf...

We argue that four service innovation mechanisms by Gallouj and Weinstein imply that services are modular offerings. In this comparative case study, we look at four knowledge-intensive business service innovations to further understand the nature of modularization in services. Our findings indicate that modularization was used primarily for systematization and innovation purposes, and the prefe...

there are no known studies that have been conducted focusing on the congruency or discrepancy of pre service agricultural education programmes in relation to secondary school agriculture teaching in zimbabwe. the purpose of this study was therefore to make a qualitative investigation on the contribution of pre service agricultural education training programmes to the teaching of high school agr...

Innovations in services continue to be a vital topic. Compared to product innovation, service innovation has received less attention in the literature. Studying service innovation is as important as ever especially since the world economy is shifting from a manufacturing economy to a service economy. Analytical and detailed discussion about service innovations is only beginning. This study aims...

service innovations S. Shimizu H. Ishikawa A. Satoh T. Aihara Offering design services for manufacturers of embedded devices has become a very important business, one in which the three leading customer requirements are time to market, integration of leading-edge technologies, and cost reduction; in short, ondemand design services. In this paper, we discuss on-demand design service innovations ...

Service innovations are central concerns in fast changing environment. Due to the fitness in customer demands and advances in information technologies (IT) in service management, an expanded conceptualization of e-service innovation is required. Specially, innovation practices have become increasingly more challenging, driving managers to employ a different open innovation model to maintain com...

Studies of e-business adoption have generally been restricted to understanding organizational factors. Institutional factors provide an alternate explanation of the diffusion of e-business across organizations. We test the influence of coercive, normative, and mimetic pressures on first-time adoption of B2B and B2C innovations by organizations. We further propose that an organization’s response...

This study extends the previous research framework—the TOE (technological, organizational, and environmental perspectives) model of technological innovation—by using a revised model—the TOIM (technological, organizational, interorganizational, and marketplace perspectives) model. The study tests additional variables, including trust (interorganizational perspective), aggregation, and service qu...

This paper presents the results of a literature survey and proposes a model of organizational learning factors (OLFs) that are likely to impact the success of a technological innovation such as e-Procurement. Implementing eProcurement initiatives requires the public sector agencies to have the organizational and management ability and flexibility to learn and share the lessons in regards to the...