In light of information technology (IT) increasingly leading to enterprise transformation in contemporary firms, we aim to build a theory of IT-enabled capabilities in innovation activity of the firm. For so doing, we extensively review almost five hundred innovation studies in organization and IS literature and conduct a thematic analysis to identify theoretical underpinnings of innovation res...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Harri Paananen Name of the doctoral dissertation Balancing Acts – Managing Inter-Organizational Collaboration for Innovation Publisher School of Science Unit Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 113/2015 Field of research Business Process Networks...

background organizational entrepreneurship focuses on proactive actions, which may lead to the new productions, new services and/or new processes. implementation of organizational entrepreneurship plans has many benefits including organizational cost reduction and the increase of organizational capital assets. objectives this study aimed to investigate the organizational entrepreneurship status...

In order to understand the organizational sources of continuous innovation, the paper provides an in– depth analysis of a leading company in the hearing aid industry, which showed impressive ability to develop and introduce innovation in the Nineties. Findings focus on three dynamic capabilities used by the innovator, and their resource-based nature. Discussion points to the generalization of t...

How innovation programs fail and innovation networks deviate from legal paths is a problem not yet fully understood. The complex interdependence between blockages of innovation and organizational corruption is a novel field of research in innovation studies. Equally, traditional approaches to explain opportunity-driven criminal behavior of individuals fail to explicate organizationally driven r...

On a weighted sample of more than 1500 firms from the French manufacturing industries, we explore the relation between individual organizational practices dedicated to innovation and the output of the process. 16 different organizational practices are identified dealing with the constraints or objective applied to employees. The belonging to a national and foreign group is also considered. Cont...

We demonstrate that the concepts of competence destroying and competence enhancing are composed of two distinct constructs which, although correlated, separately characterize an innovation: new competence acquisition and competence enhancement/destruction. We develop scales to measure these constructs and show that new competence acquisition and competence enhancing/destroying are different fro...

This chapter provides an overview of the overall approaches and organizational architecture for innovation in large corporations. An overall typology for how companies approach innovation is indicated in figure 1. On the ordinate is the focus of the innovation effort – which may be internal or external. Internal innovation effort refers to the development of products or services which grow the ...

the purpose of this study is to investigate and analyze organizational effectiveness of high schools based on the integrative approach of goal attainment–system resources and the theoretical model of parsons with the four essential functions of the social system. the four parsons’ indicators of organizational effectiveness of high schools which include innovation, organizational commitment, job...