Die Fähigkeit, Innovationen zu implementieren, hat sich angesichts veränderter Wettbewerbsbedingungen zu einem Gradmesser für den langfristigen Erfolg von Krankenhäusern entwickelt. Die hohe Misserfolgsrate von Innovationsprojekten wirft allerdings die Frage auf, warum sich Krankenhäuser in...

This paper investigates the role of public employees in absorbing external knowledge. Triggered by open government initiatives and open calls for participation, external actors are invited to integrate ideas, solutions, or experience into public organizations. Such exploitation of valuable...

A considerable body of literature has studied the idea of producing and marketing customized goods and services according to individual customer needs, addressing the growing importance of strategies like mass customization or personalization in business practice. However, customization research...

Open Innovation has been demonstrated to be an effective strategy to enhance the efficiency of a firm's innovation process. In this paper, we focus on broadcast search (also called tournament-based crowdsourcing), a method in the later stages of an innovation project directed to solve technical...