This book examines key issues, challenges, opportunities and trends in innovation processes and supply chain management … innovation activities, and aligning business and innovation activities among firms. Further, it showcases and analyzes the … implementation of inter- and intra-organizational process improvement activities and the implementation of organizational innovation …

Die Initiative ist der auslösende Impuls für ein Innovationsvorhaben. Die individuelle Entscheidung zum Ergreifen der … Entscheidung zur Initiative zustande kommt. Unterstützt durch eine innovative empirische Untersuchung legt er dar, welche …

Family firms -- Innovation -- Top Management Teams -- Upper Echelon Theory -- Innovativeness … indisputable. Most of them are global market leaders in their niches and are considered to be a force for innovation in the German …, competitive positions in their industries. The driver of this innovation success may well be the family, which distinguishes …

“Does your organization fumble when it comes to innovation? ‘The Innovative CIO’ presents a pragmatic guide to … overcoming the 10 ‘innovation killers’ within your company.” --Dennis McCafferty “CIO Insight”, 1/23/2013 (www.cioinsight.com/it-management/innovation/slideshows/ten-ways-to-kill-innovation …/) “Are you unwittingly stifling your employees’ entrepreneurial spirit? ‘The Innovative CIO’ discusses ‘innovation killers …

Firms without research and development (R&D) have frequently been neglected by mainstream innovation research. The … that non-R&D-performing firms show a “typical”, homogeneous innovation pattern. Oliver Som challenges this assumption … innovation patterns of non-R&D-performers. The findings impressively underline the need for future innovation research …