Purpose – By increasing connectivity between multiple partners, the new paradigm of open innovation has been argued to stimulate creativity. However, there are still few empirical studies exploring what influence this new form of organizing for innovation has on the creative climate. The...

Purpose – Organizational performance is positively affected by employees’ innovative behaviour, but recent studies indicate that innovative work behaviour may have negative performance consequences. Negative tensions may arise due to employees’ different views on innovation, and efficiency...

Purpose – Although the potential of innovation networks that involve both university and industry actors is great variances in cultures, goals and knowledge poses significant challenges. To better understand management of such innovation networks, the authors investigate different strategies...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the impact of a new global positioning technology on firms’ business models. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical setting was a consortium of Danish organizations, established to develop a positioning‐based technology platform as...

The escalating global demand for Asian movies and TV shows indicates a shift away from a Western-centric focus, particularly the United States, with Korean intellectual properties playing a pivotal role. Since the late 1990s, Korean productions have established a regional network within East...

The author makes the case that cause of innovation to battle commoditization is far too often lost even before it starts. The dysfunctional distribution system has been turned on its head as distributors have wrested control of the strategic prerogatives of manufacturers in order to capture a...

This research, which was made within the category of a multiple case study, has as an objective to contribute to the understanding of the processes that explain the Management of Technological Innovation (MTI) in small and medium enterprises (SME's) with low investment in research and...

This study investigates some factors that need to be considered in the management of innovation implementation within construction project organization. The main objective was to find explanatory variables that significantly affect the benefits of an innovation to project team members and the...

Conscious management of innovation in construction firms is becoming more and more a necessity. However, the possibilities and ways to successfully put an innovative idea into practice depend on a range of contingencies. A framework of innovation management was devised to structure the context...

The article aims to give an overview of the main models in the spin-off research field and to streamline further research in this domain. The main evolution and performance models known in literature will be analysed. The evolution models will be discussed in increasing order of complexity....