Innovation is an increasingly relevant concept for the success of any organization, but it also represents a set of internal and external considerations, barriers and challenges to overcome. Along the concept of innovation, new paradigms emerge such as open innovation and co-creation that are...

Strategic Planning (SP) in today’s dynamic and complex global environment needs to adopt new approaches about the design and implementation phases including major factors like new information technology as it related to Virtual Environment and directing the different stakeholders and people...

Seven “Corporate Venturing” Strategies to Foster Innovation tackles the question: What should companies do to accelerate innovation and remain relevant? Or, stated differently: What should companies do to avoid being disrupted by more agile and innovative startups? One answer is corporate...

Strategic resilience is the capacity of organizations to proactively transform and renew through innovation to minimize the effects of unknown future crises. In this context, we know that cooperation plays an essential role as an external innovation strategy, and cooperation projects with...

Hamburg / München, im Juli. Der Einfluss der Wirtschaft auf alle Bereiche des gesellschaftlichen Lebens hat mit der zunehmenden Globalisierung in den letzten Jahren noch erheblich an Bedeutung gewonnen. Gleichzeitig sind die Ansprüche der Stakeholder - Kapitalgeber, Mitarbeiter, Konsumenten,...

In einer Welt, die von Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung gleichermaßen geprägt wird, stehen wir vor einer doppelten Transformation. Dabei eröffnet das Verschmelzen von Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung völlig neue Horizonte für Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft. Innovatives Handeln für eine...

The paper presents an explorative study on creative climate and innovativeness at the county level in the EU27. We explored a possibility to extend the Ekvall’s concept of creative climate for innovativeness from the level of individual organization to the national level. The main research...

Ever since the dire predictions of The Limits to Growth (Meadows & al. 1972) failed to come true on time, it's been all too easy to ridicule environmentally-based arguments against economic growth as pessimistic and "Malthusian." In contrast, this paper accepts, for the sake of argument, the...

Social innovation is booming as a political buzzword. However, the concept still lacks scientific analysis, a common epistemology and a clear-cut definition. This thesis takes a step towards a better theoretical and conceptual understanding of corporate social innovation by detaching the concept...