Managing the Efficiency-Flexibility Tension in Innovation: Strategic and Organizational Aspects

I. Strategic, Economic and Flexibility Aspects

This is a report of a study on the evolution of manufacturing technology policy during the deployment of domestic advanced manufacturing systems in thirty-four plants and two panels of data collection separated by one year. Changing firm environment was significantly correlated with pioneering product introduction business strategy (p < 0.05). More importantly, it was found that manufacturing t...

Managing strategic aspects of research

National and international demands for a high-profile university sector in the fields of both teaching and research has put the universities in a position that requires new views on planning, executing and the following up of longterm activities. On a general level this is very simple: just plan, execute and follow-up. In reality things are somewhat more complicated – especially in the case of ...

Managing Distributed Innovation: Strategic Utilization of Open and User Innovation

Research from a variety of perspectives has argued that innovation no longer takes place within a single organization, but rather is distributed across multiple stakeholders in a value network. Here we contrast the vertically integrated innovation model to open innovation, user innovation, as well as other distributed processes (cumulative innovation, communities or social production, and co-cr...

Strategic Information Management: Organizational and Performance Aspects

The Organizational Tension between Static and Dynamic Efficiency

Efficiency has been defined in at least two different ways: in terms of the refinement of existing products, processes or capabilities (static efficiency) and as the development of new ones (dynamic efficiency). This paper analyzes the organizational trade-off between these two forms of efficiency. It shows that there is a tendency towards extremes, and that the irreversibility of efficiency or...