Awide range of factors has been found to affect organizational innovation. Of these, top managers’ leadership style has been identified as being one of the most, if not the most, important. Yet, few studies have empirically examined the link between this factor and innovation at the organizational level. This study builds on the extant literature to propose four hypotheses about how top manager...

• • The order of authorship on this paper is random and contributions were equal. We would like to thank Ron Burt, Jim March and Mike Tushman for many helpful suggestions. Olav Sorenson provided particularly extensive comments on this paper. We would like to acknowledge the financial support of the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business and a grant from the Kauffman Center for Entre...

This article challenges the tendency of the information systems literature to subsume IT innovation in processes of organizational change, either with the role of `̀ enabler'' of organizational objectives, or as an instrument appropriated by situated organizational actors. Using institutionalist theory, the relationship between information systems development and organizational transformation is...

ever changing needs of society to which the health sector has to respond, makes the health sector reform inevitable for any country worldwide. increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of health services, equity, sustainable financing and management improvement are the main objectives of health sector reform. healthcare reform was set high on the new administration’s agenda with the start of ...

This paper contributes to the innovation literature by re-examining both the outcome and process perspective of organizational innovation from a knowledge-based perspective. First, we reconceptualize innovation as a duplicable, new and useful knowledge outcome. Building on the notion that knowledge is inherently social in nature, we then develop a model of organizational innovation as a process...

This paper challenges the tendency of the information systems (IS) literature to subsume IS innovation in processes of organizational change, either with the role of the ‘enabler’ of organizational objectives, or as an instrument appropriated by situated organizational actors. Using institutionalist theory, the relationship between information systems development and organizational transformati...

The core purpose of this research study is to reveal the effects of organizational culture on the employee performance via organizational innovation in banks operating in Pakistan. A quantitative survey technique was adopted to serve the purpose. Data of 167 respondents including mostly managers, sales officers and front desk employees were collected through an adapted survey questionnaire. The...

Inventions, innovations, and creativity are cornerstones of technology-based industries. Organizations working in technology-intensive industries must constantly balance creativity with order and innovation with efficiency. In this paper, I focus on organizational innovations as potential sources of competitive advantage. Strategic assets can be assessed with the VRIO framework. Strategic asset...

in this article the role of creativity and innovation in the survival of corporations, the major factors in fostering and development of potentiality and talent for creativity and innovation. the role of managers in nurturing -such talents have been vowed as an important one. managers with their behavior and leadership approach would-be able to-make the people to become creative and innovative....