Virtuality, Innovation and R&D Activities

Virtuality and Virtualization

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...

RD-flatness and RD-injectivity

It is proved that every commutative ring whose RD-injective modules are Σ-RD-injective is the product of a pure semi-simple ring and a finite ring. A complete characterization of commutative rings for which each artinian (respectively simple) module is RD-injective, is given. These results can be obtained by using the properties of RD-flat modules and RD-coflat modules which are respectively th...

The Material Production of Virtuality: Innovation, Cultural Geography, and Facticity in Derivatives Markets

In the existing literature, the ‘virtual’ nature of financial derivatives is often commented upon, but how these products are brought into being has seldom been examined in any depth. This article analyzes the development since 1970 of organized financial-derivatives trading in the U.S. and U.K. (in particular, of derivatives exchanges and of the British financial spread-betting industry), with...

Spillovers of Innovation Activities and Their Profitability

Knowledge spillovers to competitors are regarded as an important aspect of the innovation process. While a company possibly benefits from incoming information on successful R&D conducted by other companies, a generally high probability of leakage of knowledge in an industry will negatively affect profitability. This paper presents the results of an empirical study on the effects of outgoing and...