SMEs, including cultural and creative firms, are encountering increasingly difficult obstacles in today’s competitive landscape. In particular, during the COVID-19 pandemic, these SMEs had to confront significant challenges that endangered their survival, requiring a shift in their business...

Traditional intellectual property principles hold that ideas themselves must not be appropriated. Nevertheless, within open and collaborative dynamics, ideas are traded in technology markets for a stand-alone value. Contract-based exchanges to appropriate these ownerless resources take place in...

Public sector organizations have been facing a dynamic environment and the shift in global economic pressure, while serving the public with new and/or better services under limited budgets. Organizational innovation is believed to be able to encourage increased organizational performance. Based...

Although the importance of fostering organizational creativity and open innovation is becoming more widely acknowledged, there are still few empirical evidence on the impact of creativity and innovation on enhancing SMEs performance. Moreover, previous study argued that the effect of creativity...

The most pressing environmental challenges of our society require radical solutions that would redesign the ways we produce, deliver, and consume goods and services. However, little is known about what actually drives the development of radical eco-innovations. This paper explores the concept of...

The development of Web3 - a stack of decentralised technologies underpinned by blockchains - isn’t simply a technical or financing challenge, it is also a problem of innovation and entrepreneurial discovery. In this paper we apply the lens of user innovation toolkit theory to the development...

Appropriate and effective stakeholder engagement remains a critical success factor for successful project and project management, especially in multicultural settings such as in the case of international subsidiaries of multinational organisations. Using in-depth qualitative interviews, this...

Open innovation has an important impact on the innovative activity and competitiveness of SMEs. Moreover, it is a topic of interest for academics and practitioners. This study analyzes, in the context of SMEs, how absorptive capacity can favor incoming and outgoing open innovation practices, the...

This research aims to identify key factors in organizational innovation and their interrelationships using Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM). An interpretive review of related literature was utilized to develop a multi-level structured model ISM with the help of MICMAC analysis to...