The second title in the Palgrave Studies in Global Human Capital Management series, this book explores how human capital contributes to innovation within the context of an inter-connected and globalized world. Investigating globalization as a phenomenon reflected within increasing cross-border...

This monograph provides theoretical and practical perspectives on competency management as a key resource for producing competitive products. The authors develop and substantiate a law of dependence between competencies and emergence of new markets, and describe the practical aspects of...

Julia M. Jonas examines stakeholder integration and its’ dynamics in the setting of service innovation in IT and manufacturing firms. Applying a service-dominant logic theory approach, the multiple case study research describes the implementation of stakeholder integration with its’...

Florian Denker explores the role of an individual’s domain knowledge for the proficient evaluation of early-stage new product ideas in the front-end of innovation. The results of his study show that in order to ensure an effective evaluation, evaluators of early-stage new product ideas should...

This book explores five cultural traits - Diversity, Integrity, Curiosity, Reflection, and Connection - that encourage the birth and successful development of new ideas, and shows how organizations that are serious about innovation can embrace them. Innovation - the driver of change and...

This book explores how novel digital services, including e-services, digital platforms and mobile apps, are increasingly being innovated through open processes. It investigates how and why organizations invite external developers to participate in their innovation, often catalyzed by contests...

This book offers a unique view of how innovativeness and competitiveness improve when organizations establish alliances with partners who have strong capabilities and broad social capital, allowing them to create value and growth as well as technological knowledge and legitimacy through new...

Alexander Kerl liefert eine erste umfassende Analyse der Multi-Cross-Industry Innovation, eines Innovationstyps, welcher durch die Beteiligung von mindestens drei Unternehmen aus drei unterschiedlichen Branchen bei der Innovationsentwicklung charakterisiert ist. In fünf Fallstudien, welche...

Die Ansicht, die deutsche Wirtschaft, samt der sogenannten Hidden Champions, wäre auf Jahrzehnte unangreifbar, ist eine riskante Wette auf die Zukunft. Entscheidend wird sein, wie innovativ die Unternehmen auch künftig sein werden und es bleiben. Wie man in seinem Unternehmen die...