This paper discusses educating software engineers at the undergraduate level to prepare them for taking immediately available jobs in industry, in response to the industry demand in the area of real-time systems. It is focused on the innovativeness of organizational aspects of the educational process, involving its stakeholders, rather than on the curricular aspects, traditionally considered fi...

We introduce a framework for a new idea tool Note, which gathers, fosters and manages innovative ideas. Note supports the development of organizational memory and is connected to the practices of organizational innovativeness. The tool utilizes text mining methods in idea processing, management and visualization and is thus a new approach in idea management software. The tool is under development.

Purpose – This study argues that individuals’ use of personal knowledge management systems (PKMS) significantly differs as a result of their underlying innovativeness and involvement traits. Based on the literature, this study proposes that whilst more-involved users utilize PKMS more frequently, more-innovative users utilize more functions of PKMS. Accordingly, this study informs scholars and ...

This research was carried out as a descriptive study to determine the individual innovativeness characteristics of nurses. The with participation 165 nurses among total 459 working in university hospital. data were collected by using 21-question information form, which determines socio-demographic and work-life prepared researcher line literature, Individual Innovativeness Scale. Scale consisti...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the behavioral intentions of business-tobusiness (B2B) sales managers to use mobile customer relationship management (CRM) systems in the course of their day-to-day activities. Design/methodology/approach – An extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) of mobile CRM system adoption is developed and tested with data from 105 international sal...

Beginning in the 1970s, academia began to study consumer innovation and used it as an important indicator for predicting consumers’ new product adoption behavior. This article makes a more comprehensive summary evaluation of definition from three aspects (innate innovativeness; special fields actualized innovativeness), summarizes relationship between innovations, builds integration model.

Abstract Many studies raise the issue of relationships between internationalization and innovativeness, linking them with firms’ international competitiveness. However, very few these focus on influence innovativeness regard multifaceted nature two concepts. The study presented in this paper is based a holistic approach to innovativeness. It explores outward (e.g. exporting, FDI) inward importi...

Studies on innovation have yielded contradictory results regarding the influence of family control, giving rise to competing perspectives that either emphasize stewardship role managers or agency problems their presence creates. Recent research integrates both perspectives, theorizing an inverted U-shaped relationship between control and innovativeness. However, scholars typically focus agenda,...

Much of the evidence for the idea that individuals differ in their propensity to innovate and solve new problems has come from studies on captive primates. Increasingly, behavioural ecologists are studying innovativeness in wild populations, and uncovering links with functional behaviour and fitness-related traits. The relative importance of genetic and environmental factors in driving this var...

Every year, thousands of new technological ideas are conceived. An ability to innovate these ideas continues to be critical in surviving the current business world. This study identifies and empirically assesses the characteristics of technological innovativeness. A research model based on the existing literature on consumer innovativeness is thus presented. The model is tested via a survey ins...