Organizing for innovation in a digitized world

Organizing for Innovation in the Digitized World

Our era is one of increasingly pervasive digital technologies, which penetrate deeply into the very core of the products, services, and operations of many organizations and radically change the nature of product and service innovations. The fundamental properties of digital technology are reprogrammability and data homogenization. Together, they provide an environment of open and flexible affor...

Organizing for Innovation in Large Firms

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

Innovation in a Shrinking World

This paper explores the implications of reductions in tariffs or transport costs on the rate of innovation in a quality ladders model where Þrms from both countries innovate. If a country raises its tariffs, its wage rises relative to the other country and its Þrms become technology leaders for a larger fraction of products, but the aggregate rate of innovation falls. If transport costs fall sy...

Organizing Projects for Innovation: A Collective Mindfulness Perspective

IS projects continue to present a problematic endeavor for organizations. A high percentage of IS projects fail to meet efficiency metrics of on time, on budget, and on initial specifications. Even when projects meet these efficiency metrics, recent research and experience show that they fail to deliver business benefits. This paper presents an appreciative enquiry of a successful IS project th...