5.2.2 The Culture of Innovation Styles: Are our Corporate Cultures Tuned for Innovation?

The Culture of innovation Styles: Are our Corporate Cultures Tuned for Innovation?

Systems engineering work is requiring increasing collaboration among various enterperprises, nations, and individuals to innovate to meet the comlex needs of large numbers of stakeholders. This indicates a need to better understand the cultural differences in innovation styles that can enable or hinder collaboration. This paper argues that applying the Hofstede Cross-Cultural Dimensions to ente...

Integrating corporate innovation communities: the role of structure and culture

A fundamental weakness of current research on corporate innovation communities is that knowledge about how to alter them for innovation endeavors remains vague. To help facilitate this gap, we analyze the influence of organizational contexts on innovation activities and outcomes from a contingency theory perspective. From the analysis of multiple in-depth case studies, four types of organizatio...

Innovation and Corporate Conservatism∗

In this paper, we study firms’ incentives to promote innovation. We analyze a situation in which an employee in a firm can invest in discovering new ideas. An innovative employee has to decide whether to disclose his idea within the firm, to maintain the status-quo by not implementing it, or to form a spin-out firm. In a framework in which intellectual property rights are not perfect, a contrac...

Edifying the Culture of Innovation in Entrepreneurship Development in Nigeria

Innovation is the key to growth, without it, most organization would forever be stuck doing the same old things the same old way. New products, new services and new ways of doing business would never emerge. Entrepreneurship activities brings about business innovation with resultant development in enterprises which also serves as a panacea to economic growth in developing countries. Entreprene...

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