Purpose The purpose of this research is to understand the mechanisms of knowledge management (KM) for innovation and provide an approach for enterprises to leverage KM activities into continuous innovation. Design/methodology/approach – By reviewing the literature from multidisciplinary fields, the concepts of knowledge, KM and innovation are investigated. The physical, human and technological ...

Recently, significant technological changes, greater customer demand and the rise of new business models have triggered a rapid increase in electronic service (e-service) innovations. Now, innovation in the provision of e-services has become one of the priorities of managers in order to gain a competitive advantage. However, few studies so far have explored the determinant factors needed in the...

This study uses emerging meta-analytic methods, in combination with structural equations methodology, to synthesize empirical studies and extend the understanding of relationships amongthe correlates (antecedents and/or outcomes) of innovation in organizations. this study draws upon a meta-analytic database of 155 independent samples from 108 studies from the period of 1970 through 2004. Specif...

This paper offered a procedure for ranking the entrepreneurial and innovative indicators using Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM), taking into account three individual,organizational and cultural dimensions simultaneously in decision making procedure. Henceforward, by using the Meta synthesis framework, the form of group classification of indicators from afinding’s combination was suggested ...

information technology has been considered the greatest innovation of the new era because it has a lot of fruitful social economic and scientific impacts. e-marketing joins creative and technical aspects of the internet, including: design, development, advertising and sales. this research aims to design an e-marketing framework by using meta-synthesis method. in order to design and explain a co...

A systematic approach is adopted to review the literature, followed by a meta-analysis of articles on Rogers’ innovationattributes. All publications from 1996-2011 are extracted; 226 relevant innovation articles are studied to showcase the informative trends pertaining to Rogers’ five attributes eight features of ideal innovation-attribute study (approach, dependent variable, study type, instru...

Despite considerable research on both adoption and diffusion of IS/IT innovations, there is a lack of coherent understanding of the processes by which innovations diffuse within social systems. This research proposes that the nature of the innovation diffusion process will depend on the characteristics of the innovation, the personal attributes of the individual, the interpersonal relationships...

Open Innovation has become an important new paradigm to integrate external knowledge into innovation processes of organizations. The size of innovator networks resulting from this brings in new challenges in context with management of work units. The composition of teams overarching organizational fields or tasks may serve as a useful example for that. For this purpose IT support can be applied...

In a previous report we outlined the need for a web-based framework for collaborative innovation. In this report we describe the toolkit, meta-components and meta-processes that are needed to support such activity. 1. CATEGORIES AND SUBJECT DESCRIPTORS H.1[Information Systems Models and Principles]:General; H.4[Information Systems Applications]: Miscellaneous; D.2.0[Software Engineering]: General