For various reasons organisations can enter a condition that presents them with a “transformational imperative”. This happens when “old” ways of doing business cease to deliver sustainable competitive advantage and usual ways of “putting things right” fail to restore business...

The advantage of firm-level innovation modelsused in industrially-advanced countries (IACs) is that they havedelvedsubstantially into the management of innovation and decision-makingprocesses within a firm.This analysis categorizes five generations ofsuch firm-level innovation models,...

Many of the world`s leading firms are developing a new model of industrial organization based on systems integration. Rather than performing all productive tasks in-house, companies are building the capabilities to design and integrate systems, while managing networks of component and subsystem...