Although Open Innovation has been a highly researched and debated topic in the last decade, many relevant issues remain largely unexplored so far. An interesting question to address is whether and how Open Innovation has a dissimilar impact on the organization and management systems of firms...

The paper describes a conceptual approach for a next-generation innovation paradigm in the Digital Economy called ?Embedded Innovation? (Innovation 3.0). The notion of ?embeddedness? is introduced to mark the increasing challenge of integrating firms into their surrounding communities to assure...

This paper studies the influence of rural areas density on the diffusion process within firms of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Besides spatial?s determinative factors of the diffusion process, I also deal with organizational and structural factors. The empirical support of...

In contemporary research on construction-related ICT (information communication technologies), little distinction is made between the use of ICT in permanent line organizations and its use in temporary organizations (for example, in building and construction projects). This paper makes that...

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of how the European Emission Trading System (EU ETS) as the core climate policy instrument of the European Union has impacted innovation. Towards this end, we investigate the impact of the EU ETS on research, development, and demonstration (RD&D),...

Many definitions of action research, especially of participatory action research, include the idea of learning as one core result of the interventions. These definitions cover the learning of all people involved, and present an interesting learning challenge for the researchers applying action...

Can radical organizational change be better achieved through planned change measures or through change measures developed as part of an evolutionary process? Based on 20 open interviews as well as recent survey data from 236 junior faculty members and 382 senior faculty members from departments...

Organizational change is a planned effort to improve a business’s capacity to get work done and better serve its market. Organizational change is about people. Real change happens when people realize that a new methodology, process or technology makes them more productive, more efficient or...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a generalized framework that illustrates the potential for the resources, events and agents (REA) model to integrate business strategy and information systems planning. The essential point of connection, the business process, enables the REA to...