Technological innovation is a phenomenon that has been explored from a variety of perspectives, most prominently from the perspective of economics. Recently scholars from organizational and economic sociology have begun to explore innovation. In your view, does this research offer a coherent perspective on innovation? Of what value is an organizational and economic sociology perspective on inno...

This article aims to evaluate the innovation management capacities of knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) and verify to what extent these companies return different profiles when classified by urban versus rural. Taking a sample of 500 KIBS, we applied a questionnaire with results revealing different explanatory variables for KIBS innovation capacities. From the set of five dimensions ...

In this paper, the author presents a theoretical framework that establishes an indirect link between IT capabilities and firm innovation by characterizing the mediating role of knowledge assets: knowledge networks and knowledge capabilities. Firm innovation itself is characterized as innovation development and innovation commercialization. The search on literature of IT capability and innovatio...

New conditions contributes the emergence of new concepts of innovation strategies in the enterprise. The study conducted by The Economist Intelligence Unit shows a new approach to innovation. Future innovations will be enforced and invented by users (clients)and they will be a key element of competitive advantage. The company will therefore be forced to turn their customers to its information s...

Applegate et al. (2008), Corporate Information Strategy and Management: Text and Cases 1 IT and Strategy The relationship between IT and business models & strategies Partially The effects of IT on business models are relevant, but overall it lacks a specific focus on digital innovation 2 IT and Organization The effect of IT on an organization's capability, coordination, learning, etc. Partially...

M anaging innovation in enterprise has always been a complex task, but it’s become even more so as organizations become more globally distributed and new digital technologies proliferate. Some studies of IT companies have used agile approaches in software development and the IT-enabled global innovation ecosystem,1–4 whereas others focus on IT’s effects on innovation.5,6 However, it’s hard to f...

information technology (it) in the present era has affectedall aspects of organizations as a new strategy; therefore imagine anorganization without it and keeping abreast with new technologies seemsimpossible. the current research seeks to identify factors affecting theadoption of it innovation in governmental organizations. to this end theindices affecting it innovation adoption have been extr...

Exploration of the characteristics of innovation adoption in the context of social network will add new insights beyond the traditional innovation models. In this paper, we establish a new agent-based model to simulate the behaviors of agents in terms of innovation adoption. Specifically, we examine the effects of the network structure, homophily and strategy, among which homophily is a new top...