Adoption of Information Technology (IT) in organizations is influenced by a range of factors in the context of technology, organization, environment and individuals. Amongst others, the IT literature has identified several organizational factors that either facilitates or hinders innovation adoption in organizations. Studies examining the factors influencing IT adoption have produced inconsiste...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to apply the organizational learning framework to the management accounting literature to better understand why management accounting innovations succeed or fail in organizations. Design/methodology/approach – A theoretical framework integrating diffusion and organization learning theories is developed. Diffusion theory is used to describe the process wher...

Business process orientation (BPO) supports business process management by reorienting employees’ focus from functional performance to customer value adding. While it is generally believed that BPO improves various aspects of organizational performance, there has been a lack of empirical evidence. The results of this study showed that BPO significantly influences organizational innovation perfo...

This article is part of a book entitled Productivity, Innovation. Management and Development : A study in the Productivity Culture of Nations and System Renewal. The book was supported by a grant from the Quality Improvement Programme of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. The initiation, implementation, and development of productivity and innovation require skills, creativity, commitme...

The article explore three issues: 1) How widespread and important are various forms of transnational organizational innovation in the Danish public sector? 2) How are these organizational innovations related to each other? 3) What are the differences and similarities in transnational organizational innovation between state administration and local government and how can they be explained? By tr...

This study examines the effects of operational innovation and quality management (QM) practices on organizational performance in healthcare organizations. More specifically, this study explores relationships of operational innovation and QM practices on organizational performance. The proposed research model was tested using structural equation modeling through a set of hypotheses, based on the...

There is a popular notion that the life of innovators and inventors glorious enviable one because they have talents which others do not have, can overcome any obstacles. These are, in interpretation, something mysterious, indefinable inimitable. But reality, to deal with many serious pernicious obstacles are unknown other people. Those who unaware must become aware them reduce them, reduction t...

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) models are gaining acceptance but their business value has largely been conceptual or anecdotal. In this paper, we empirically examine the role of SaaS in IT-enabled innovation of the firms and the role of organizational complementarities in augmenting the impact. We argue that SaaS can support IT-enabled innovation and that complementarities like learning from past...

in highly competitive market of food industry maintaining and increasing market share are results of brand performance. hence detecting the effective factors on the brand performance is crucial in strategic marketing decisions. data gathered by a 36-items questionnaire. the sample was composed of 131 managers and marketing experts in 62 companies in food industry those are located in tehran cit...

Innovation system studies devote a key role to organizational actors in the development of new technologies. However, little effort has been made to incorporate a conceptual understanding of e.g. resources, capabilities and strategy making at the organizational level into the systems framework. In this conceptual paper, we explore the linkages between resource based reasoning in the field of ma...