Organizing for Innovation: R&D Projects, Activities and Partners

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...

Factors for Selecting Partners in Innovation Projects – Evidences from Alliances in the Brazilian Petrochemical Leader

Due to the limitation of resources, the need to foster the developments and the lack of some competencies internally, companies are forced to cooperate with external agents, like other companies and universities, as suggested by the Open Innovation paradigm. Although there are lots of studies dealing with partner selection factors in alliances in the firm level, few studies are devoted to under...

Organizing for Innovation in Large Firms

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...

Interaction and Innovation - Reframing Innovation Activities for a Matrix Organization

In this article we point out the importance of reframing and orchestrating an innovation process while adopting a matrix organization (MO) structure. Some studies implicate that a MO gives the flexibility desired and supports sharing of information and efficient use of resources in an organization. However, the MO is also a target of hard criticism by real life operational actors in organizatio...