This paper reports on activities and results of a partnership approach to an in-house innovation learning project (ILP) that sought to leave a legacy of skills, expertise and experience to be retained and repeated in-house for participating owner-managed Small and Medium-sized Enterprises...

Recent Internet technologies and web-based applications, such as social software, are being increasingly applied in firms. Social software can be employed for knowledge management and for external communication enabling access to internal and external knowledge. Knowledge in turn constitutes one...

Several organizations have developed ongoing crowdsourcing communities that repeatedly collect ideas for new products and services from a large, dispersed “crowd” of non-experts (consumers) over time. Despite its promises, little is known about the nature of an individual’s ideation...

Contrary to popular belief which sees the governments as reactive and resistant to change, the increasing emergence of innovative ideas particularly in the field of local services yielded a wide range of interactions. This was due to address new policy challenges, improve productivity, better...

When radical innovations impact an industry, established incumbents are sometimes displaced by new challengers, yet at other times, survive and prosper. What are the factors that influence these possible outcomes? Extensive as the studies are in providing insights into incumbent-challenger...

Sustainability innovations are characterized by a systemic nature, which can only be developed if multiple firms work together. To jointly identify opportunities and plan such sustainability innovations, new methods and approaches are needed. In this article we describe a case study conducted in...

Metalquimia ha creado un modelo de negocio transgresor que reproduce el efecto económico de una externalidad de red de manera natural promoviendo una cultura de innovación. Para mantener el equilibrio de este efecto, ésta ha sido capaz de: (1) incentivar la innovación entre sus empleados;...

Are the leading management journals unlikely to be first to publish important new ideas? Though an empirical question, the issue is of central concern to scholars at the frontier of theory development. Of 15 core ideas in strategy, we found that the leading management journals were almost never...

The effect of organizational resources in technological innovation has been widely studied. However, the effect of these resources in organizational innovation is a subject that still requires greater scrutiny. Relying on the resource-based view of the firm, we hypothesize that the...

The emergence of technological and social expectancy, intentional actions, and real-time results have higher education institutions rapidly shifting policies, practices, and behaviors to meet the needs of their respective communities (e.g., prospective students, current students, alumni,...