Corporate Culture: a key to stimulate innovation

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...

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...

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Key Caveats and Emerging Creative Solutions to Achieve Successful Corporate Innovation

Effective, sustained innovation remains one of the great challenges facing almost every corporation. This paper outlines several key caveats that corporations need to understand and adhere to if they wish to win the innovation game. The paper also outlines emerging creative solutions being used by several corporations designed to abide by such caveats and in doing so improve their innovation su...

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...