Purpose – The purpose of this article is to contribute to the empirical literature, which investigates innovation modes …, by exploring the role of design as a source of innovation. Design‐methodology/approach – The empirical analysis is … homogeneous groups of firms. Findings – The paper finds that: design and R&D are complementary sources of innovation; design is …

Purpose – This paper aims to focus on innovation development in enterprises with fewer than 50 employees. It explores … differences in innovation capacity and in the diversity of developed innovations across the four enterprise size categories within … enterprises. The analysis is based on non‐parametric tests. Findings – The findings display a broad diversity of innovation …

communicative. Design/methodology/approach – Specifically, the authors propose the “Rhetorical Innovation Process” as a methodology … innovations that can be interpreted according to the “Rhetorical Innovation Process”. Then, a brief workshop assignment in the … exploration of the “rhetorical innovation process” in collaboration with eight design student teams has shown that this method can …

with increasing service quality and innovation success. Research limitations/implications – The results of this study are … importance of the internal relationship between service employees and the company in service innovation, the paper pays … particular attention to the role of IMO linkages and their effect on service innovation success. To the best of the authors …

innovation process in process firms. Design/methodology/approach – A multiple case study of four process firms was conducted … increases our understanding of innovation management in general. Practical implications – From a practical point of view, the …

Purpose – Collaboration for research and development (R&D) and innovation among various organizations can be beneficial … innovation requires firms to share their core knowledge, and simultaneously make sure that they will not lose their core … relation to collaborative innovation endeavours. Design/methodology/approach – This study approaches the knowledge protection …

Purpose – Current research focuses on the interaction between innovation and strategy process, but less is known about … how identity influences innovation and the formation of strategy. The purpose of this paper is therefore to investigate … the relationship between organizational identities and innovation with regards to strategy. Design …

ageing people. The study proposes focusing on the front‐end stage of an innovation process: the ideation phase in a virtual … to support the innovation process. Design/methodology/approach – A constructive research approach is applied in this … weak ties. Findings – Based on the evaluation, it can be argued that the open innovation model and particularly the …

related to incremental and discontinuous innovation. Too often, the term “innovation” is used without an understanding of how … holistic “innovation continuum” to treat innovation as a complex adaptive system (CAS). Design/methodology/approach – A … – The authors determined that an “innovation continuum” can be established through the use of a complex adaptive system. Two …