Does institutional context matter in building innovation capability?

It-Enabled Business Innovation: Does CIO Capability Matter? A Perspective from Institutional Entrepreneurship Theory

Today IT has evolved from a mere efficiency tool to enabling business innovation and providing strategic value. As the highest level IT leader in organizations, CIO should be largely responsible for the success of IT-enabled business innovation. CIO must possess necessary skills, knowledge, and abilities to lead IT staff, business partners, and even high-level executives in IT-enabled business ...

Does Institutional Memory Matter?

A fter 55 years of service, Dr. Joseph C. Greenfield quietly stepped down from his position as Director of the Heart Station, Durham Veterans Administration Hospital affiliated with Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Greenfield was also the James B. Duke Professor of Medicine, Chairman of Medicine and Chief of Cardiology Emeritus, and one of my most important mentors. This marks an event that ...

E - business Model Innovation and Capability Building

A firm’s business model describes the way in which it creates, delivers, and appropriates value. In the debate about the ongoing demise of several e-commerce ventures, only a few analysts have looked at the relative sanity of innovative e-business Models, relying mostly on static environmental variables and the inherent economic logic of each industry. Our study sheds new light on this debate b...

Introducing self-directed learning in an innovation-friendly institutional context

The setting of this experiment is that of the DEFLE, French Department for Foreign Students. It is an old department of the University of Nancy2, originally designed for the training of foreign students to prepare them to study a wide range of subjects. Studies of French as a Foreign Language (FFL) were organized exclusively in terms of classes (learning with a teacher), until the CRAPEL, throu...

Latino locales: Does context matter?