This paper examines some of the changing requirements for technological innovation within the supply network, in the face of shifts in industry structure and demands for greater integration of technologies. A review of the literature concerning the contribution of small firms in innovation is presented, alongside evidence that small firms are taking increasing responsibility for design and manu...

This paper focuses on the practice of mobilizing key resources to build strategic capabilities based on technological innovation in a textile company in China. We propose an analytical framework on the basis of RBV theory and value chain analysis to determine the pattern of how different bundles of the key resources contributed to the strategic capabilities in our case company. We also adopt a ...

Technological innovation in general and information technology (IT) applications in particular, have had a major effect in banking and finance. Following Garbade and Silber (1978), this research reviews the effects on banking organisations with reference to front office or external changes as described by the nature of product and service offerings. Following Morris (1986) and Quintás (1991), t...

Empirical evidence underlines the importance of ICT-based innovations in education for at least two reasons: They prepare for a future workplace in a knowledge society increasingly dependent on ICT and furthermore, they support student-centred learning processes. However, adoption of ICT in educational organizations in general as well as of specific ICT-based innovations varies broadly across n...

the current study aims to identify and examine the effect of market orientation, management innovation and technological innovation on organizational performance. the current research was conducted using descriptive- correlational methodology. the population of the current research included pharmaceutical companies throughout the country. using simplerandom sampling method and cochran formula, ...

Technological innovations typically benefit those who have good access to and an understanding of the underlying technologies. As such, technology-centered health care innovations are likely to preferentially benefit users of privileged socioeconomic backgrounds. Which policies and strategies should health care organizations adopt to promote equitable distribution of the benefits from technolog...

This paper investigates the problem of testing for the symmetry of linear time series driven by asymmetric innovations. In particular, we examine the performance of alternative symmetry tests when innovations are fat tailed. Among the tests considered, only the test based on the tail estimator of the spectral measure yields satisfactory results in the presence of fat-tailed innovations.