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This paper examines the dynamic and multi-level relationship between organization and innovation from three different …) innovation as a process of organizational learning and knowledge creation; and c) organizational capacity for change and … paper argues that organizational innovation may be a necessary pre-condition for technological innovation, and thus it is …
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The features of innovation, flexibility and change mutually influence one another. Provided that change is perceived as … a feature leading to innovation, flexibility is the feature that enables it. Innovation cannot exist without change but … nonetheless each and every change leads to innovation. Flexibility is a necessary condition but not sufficient for the innovation …
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strategic innovation, and to encourage consensus over the field’s core foundation of main themes. Methods: We explore the … intersection between the constituent fields of strategic management and innovation management through a concept mapping process. We … categorize the main themes and search for common ground in order to develop the core thematic framework of strategic innovation …
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innovation and experimentation. What is striking about the Opificio is such a contradiction between its excellence in core …
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The article discusses recent advances and future challenges in innovation studies. First, it separately considers four … main strands of research, studying innovation at the organisational, systemic, sectoral and macroeconomic levels. Then … technological and institutional change; the role of demand; and the impacts of innovation on individual and collective welfare …
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. This study on “R&D, Innovation and Employment Creation” for the Portuguese Observatory of Employment and Vocational … Training (IEFP-MQE) is updating information on the articulation between Job creation, innovation, technology, and R&D. A … diagnosis of the state of national S&T research and of processes of technological and organizational innovation was made, as …
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inter-firm relations in automotive production chain, the second one on productive re-structuring and flexibility and the …
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There is an increasing importance of different productive architectures related to worker involvement in the decision making, where is given due attention to the intuitive capabilities and the human knowledge in the optimization and flexibilization of manufacturing processes. Thus having...
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testing empirically whether the claims of the TLM concept with respect to labour market flexibility and work security hold in … level of labour mobility and flexibility (although not much higher than the corporatist or social-democratic regime) with a … have fairly high levels of labour mobility and flexibility. The convergence hypothesis might find some ground in these …
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Flexibility is an important issue when investments are being planned and valued. How flexibility inherent in …), and the methods that Finnish corporations use to take flexibility into consideration, when planning and valuing … flexibility in investments. Very few Finnish managers seem to be aware of research done in the field, but most seem to have an …
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