The intensive use and development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are behind the innovation of new products, services and business models in the ecosystem. Thus, the information (SI) systems and emerging technology, innovation carriers, position management information systems (DSI) as a key player in the innovation process. The objective of this article is to propose a model...

This paper examines the effects of financial reporting on corporate innovation. After controlling for other determinants of corporate innovation, I find that firms with higher-quality financial reporting exhibit greater innovation. I show that the relation between financial reporting quality and innovation is more pronounced for firms that have greater growth opportunities, those that operate i...

Purpose – Despite the growing prominence of innovation, limited studies examine the adoption of applications that support innovation processes. The purpose of this study is to investigate the adoption of innovation management applications (IMAs). Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on qualitative and quantitative evidence sourced from innovation development and commercialization funct...

Extant research on open innovation (OI) offers no systematic insight of how and why firms differ regarding the extent to which they conduct OI activities. Whereas past theoretical contributions have focused on explaining the externalisation of R&D activities as a result of firm-external factors, we focus on explaining this externalisation as a result of firm-internal weaknesses, specifically, i...

The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to explore the effects of industrial cluster on innovation capacity, and second, to study the impact of external resources on firms’ innovation capacity especially under Chinese regional economic policy. This is a critical subject that lacks sufficient analysis. Through years of investment and effort, several IT industrial clusters have developed in Chin...

Received: 28 November 2005 Revised: 7 July 2006 Accepted: 16 October 2006 Abstract Grounded in the diffusion of innovation theory and the technology– organization–environment framework, we develop an integrative model to study the determinants of post-adoption stages of innovation diffusion, using enterprise digital transformation as an example of technology-enabled innovations. We specify four...