This book explores multidimensional issues concerning digital resilience and analyzes how people and organizations maintain, enhance and protect value stemming from digital technologies. Society is now heading for a future in which organizations and people will increasingly depend on digital...

In this empirical analysis Sara Polier investigates forward-looking external search strategies and their impact on the value contribution of corporate foresight. Based on a mixed method approach combining a quantitative and qualitative analysis of large, R&D-intensive firms, the findings reveal...

Identification of barriers in the user innovation process -- Criteria for distinction of barriers and resource-based problems -- Analysis of moderating effects of innovators’ openness on product properties

Chapter 1. Trends of Emerging Technologies in the Fashion Product Design and Development Process (Young-A Lee) -- Chapter 2. Material Innovation with Technologies (Huantian Cao) -- Chapter 3. Wearable Technology in Fashion (Sumin Koo and Youngjin Chae) -- Chapter 4. 3D Printing and Additive...

This book provides insight into the implementation of Life Cycle approaches along the entire business value chain, supporting environmental, social and economic sustainability related to the development of industrial technologies, products, services and policies; and the development and...

Introduction -- Definitions -- Objectives of the Study -- Research Strategy -- Theoretical Framework -- Empirical Analysis of TeliaSonera and its Confrontation with the Theory -- Empirical Analysis of Swisscom and its Confrontation with the Theory -- Conceptual Synthesis -- Principal...

This monograph provides a new perspective on business modeling in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It builds on the theoretical framework on innovation and revisits the Zahra and George (2002) model on absorptive capacity and other related works, such as the open innovation approach...

Sharing information and knowledge, co-innovating with clients, communities, and competitors and adopting cognitive technology, robo advisors, crowdfunding, and blockchain reflect current socio-economic behaviour. Emerging growth regions in Asia, demographic shifts, intergenerational wealth...