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One of the major driving forces behind a firm’s success can be attributed to its meme management. Memes, analogous to the biological gene, are self‐replicating. They represent the knowledge, views, perceptions, and beliefs communicated from person to person. In a business context, memes can...
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, organisational innovation, and the firm’s size. Results indicate that bureaucratic control, internal communication, and external … communication do affect the likelihood of a firm adopting CAD but organisational innovation and organisational size do not. These …
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that innovation processes which are multi‐site, or cross functional in scale, are likely to involve the integration, and … contemporary innovation literature, which emphasizes the extent to which they involve the integration of internal and external …
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Past research has demonstrated that industrial customers can, in effect, bring about product innovation among their … the potential of the user as a co‐worker in the innovation process.  …
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organisational overhauls which highlight the contribution to the innovation process made by the marketing, engineering, and …
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Innovation management has been acknowledged as a crucial activity for the growth and survival of firms. An important … element of a firm’s innovation management strategy is the acquisition and management of patents. Although the role of patents …
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Although the significance of international markets is recognised in innovation management, there seems to be a lack of … studies on how the international context is actually present in the process of disruptive‐innovation development. This paper …
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Alliances are an increasingly common way of organizing the uncertain exploration phase of radical innovation. It may …, however, be argued that there is inherent tension between the logic of alliances and the logic of innovation. Whereas … innovation is generally argued to require flexibility, political protection and extensive communication, the commonly mentioned …
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innovation projects. As a setting for the theoretical model, two case studies are presented and discussed: the first analyses an … innovation project’s structuration through conversations via e‐mails. The second is an action research whose purpose is to design … a project‐oriented organization to improve the innovation capability of an industrial firm. These two field studies lead …
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The competitiveness of the transition countries depends on the ability of their companies to develop successful new products. Using 14 success factors proposed by Cooper and Kleinschmidt, their impact on the success of Slovenian new products was analysed, in order to obtain information needed to...
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