, probably no other innovation has been interpreted in so many different ways either. This paper seeks to discover whether there …

evidence shows the compatibility and complementarity of JIT with different classes of innovation; the need for an integrative …

. Describes a model of the organization of manufacturing innovation which was used in longitudinal case studies of the adoption … affecting their level of success. It appears that the activities, innovation roles, organizational arrangements and slack … resources which are required according to the model determine most of the success of the innovation process. Concludes that the …

product innovation. It addresses the apparent tension between quality management and innovation management and seeks empirical … support for the proposition that quality management resources can be used to support strategic innovation. Based on resource … capability, and process improvement capability – and assesses the role of these resources in the success of product innovation …

innovation is not well understood. The purpose of this paper is to empirically analyse the impact of global purchasing on product … innovation sourced from suppliers, while taking into account how firms integrate their suppliers. Design … that global purchasing has no direct impact on product innovation performance. However, supplier integration is more …

dyadic relationship and how these differences influence patterns of inter-firm innovation activities and outcomes …. Specifically, to address the relative paucity of theoretical work on how dyadic configurations influence parties’ joint innovation … pertain to the levels of involvement buyers and suppliers exhibit in inter-firm innovation activities. These choices concern …

presented at the International Conference on Quality, Innovation and Knowledge held in Kuala Lumpur in 2002. These papers have … their central focus on the people element of quality, innovation and knowledge.  …