Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of cross‐border diffusion of technology as a contributor to national economic performance at both aggregate and sectoral levels. Specifically, it aims to explore: the relationship between inflows of foreign technology and home...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a new institutional perspective of knowledge Management technology adoption through an empirical study of a knowledge intensive firm. Design/methodology/approach – The research involved collection of qualitative data about knowledge...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential of Web 2.0 technologies for knowledge management and to explore how corporate governance models influence the adoption of Web 2.0 for organisational learning and knowledge exchange. Design/methodology/approach – The paper begins...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a comprehensive research framework for understanding the adoption of techno‐relationship innovations. The second purpose is to examine the factors influencing the adoption of electronic customer relationship management (eCRM) applications....

Purpose – One of the biggest concerns of modern information retrieval systems is reducing the user effort required for manual traversal and filtering of long matching document lists. Thus, the first goal of this research is to propose an improved scheme for representation of search results....

This paper seeks to illustrate and explore strategic issues from the perspective of the research team in designing, delivering and monitoring an education programme for new technology based firms (NTBFs) which has been run successfully for the last two years by the Robert Gordon University....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the use of environmental scanning (ES) in the new product development (NPD) process among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Thai food processing industry. This study also shows that more extensive use of ES improves new product (NP)...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide greater insights to managers seeking to time properly the launches of innovative new products (NPs) across multiple generations. This paper aims to address the rhythm matching problem by developing a typology and a conceptual framework of the...

Purpose – This paper aims to forecast technological change for laptop batteries. The most promising technology to replace laptop batteries emerging today is micro fuel cells. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use several sources of technical data like the Department of Energy Sandia...