In this paper we analyze the process of technical and organizational innovation through which Aranzadi (the leading firm in the Spanish legal information sector) adapted to the changes in its environment in the late 1980s and early 1990s. After a theoretical introduction, we introduce the firm analyzed (Aranzadi) and study some of the factors that provoked the beginning of the innovation proces...

For several decades, marketing researchers have stressed that firms can achieve competitive advantage by creating superior value for customers through innovation. However the literature on entrepreneurship and innovation based competitive strategy is deficient in several important respects. First, entrepreneurship has been poorly measured in the past. Next, research on innovation is biased towa...

complicacy, variety and ever-increasing changes, assumed as outstandingly evident organizational environment features, impose a situation where inconsiderate attitude or carelessness could end in loss of competitiveness or even survival among rivals. today, organizations have come to the point that nothing, but knowledge and innovation could make them desirably successful in a competitive world...

Knowledge is the most important management elements in business administration besides factors of production such as labor and capital. Challenge faced by high-tech industry in the era of knowledge economy is how to grasp and use knowledge. Only knowledge creates innovative thoughts. Goodness and badness of organizational knowledge is often closely related to organizational learning. Organizati...

Innovation ability plays an important role in economic growth not only in under- developed countries, but also in developed countries, especially when markets are in recession. In this paper, we analyzed changes in major developments in the context of innovation capacity and the causality relation between innovation and its sources through an empirical study based on the automotive subcontracto...

introduction: higher education administrators face with problems such as financial pressures, rapidly changing environment, competition with other higher education institutions to achieve higher academic rank and research, attracting students and more prone to grant more autonomy to faculty members .to overcome mentioned problems ,they can use methods such as; innovation in curriculum, support ...

Employee empowerment has long been associated with organizational outcomes such as innovation, greater effectiveness, and better performance. Non-academic professional employees in higher education are responsible for the important day-to-day operations of a university; therefore, organizational strategies such as employee empowerment that encourage initiatives and innovative behaviors among th...

Article history: Received 18 January 2013 Received in revised form 1 July 2013 Accepted 13 December 2013 Available online 24 January 2014 Radical innovations have enormous impacts on organizations, industries, and societies. The success of a radical innovation requires multiple facilitators within and across organizational boundaries. In this study, we distinguished the effects of two dimension...

This study examines the relationship between trust, innovation and IT assets in the context of inter-organizational relationships (IORs). We parse two dimensions of inter-organizational IT-based assets – IT-based Process Institutionalizations and IT-based Knowledge Institutionalizations – based on the purposes for which these assets are deployed by the collaborating organizations. Based on prio...

This study applies organizational innovation theory to one specific type of innovation—electronic business. It describes e-business innovation along seven dimensions: organizational focus, radicalness, centrality, adaptability, uncertainty, pervasiveness, and communicability. E-business is identified as both an administrative and technical innovation that is flexible, has median centrality, hig...