Characteristics of Innovative Companies : A Case Study of Companies in Different Sectors
The literature on new organizational forms offers an up-to-date picture of organizations that combines traditional variables with new ones, and contributes to a more productive analysis of the relationship between organization and innovation. Our review of the literature highlights several research topics dealing with new organizational forms and innovation, such as strategic flexibility (in the form of customization of output, subcontracting or outsourcing and the use of contingent workers), informal communication throughout the entire organization made feasible by information technology and collaboration with other organizations and institutions. These topics have been analysed in a study of four companies that differ in size and sector, but that have all been classified as innovative. This article confirms the existence of certain factors that operate as described in the literature, and reveals other factors that have to be taken into account because they contribute to a better understanding of how innovation takes place in the four companies
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2014
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Authors: | Medina, Carmen Cabello ; Lavado, Antonio Carmona ; Cabrera, Ramón Valle |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
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