This paper focuses on unsanctioned practice innovations (UPIs) and how they are generated realized by those outside the senior ranks of an organisation. Through a longitudinal in-depth qualitative study multinational firm between 2001 2014, we discovered deviance from formal procedural frameworks had diverse often creative productive effects that countered constraints transparency, legitimacy t...

Innovation is studied to great extent in many disciplines. Especially consumer focused innovation studies are popular. Inspired by this fact the purpose of this paper is to study the new product innovation process of a specialized metal manufacturer in Northern Europe. New product innovation process is depicted and specific focus is given to new technology development to create new products for...

Non-technological innovation is an important element of firms’ innovation activities that both supplement and complement technological innovation, i.e. the introduction of new products and new processes. We analyse the spread of nontechnological innovation in firms, their relation to technological innovation, and their effects to firm performance and success with product and process innovation,...

although organizational learning is often known as a goal, in the view of many stakeholders, the final aim of many organizations is optimization of financial results such as productivity, and  innovation is among various factors which optimizes the organizations financial performance, however, as firms seek financial performance improvement, higher profit and minimum cost, it is necessary to un...

A common theme in the more recent Business Process (BP) literature is the search for approaches that allow formalizing domain knowledge into structures, patterns or frameworks, which can be reused to facilitate process redesign and support systems development [2, 8, 9, 12, 20, 26, 27]. The objective of these structures is to simplify and accelerate process innovation. These types of structures ...

Synopsis Most organizations today are required not only to establish effective business processes but they are required to accommodate for changing business conditions at an increasing rate. Many business processes extend beyond the boundary of the enterprise into the supply chain and the information infrastructure therefore is critical. Today nearly every business relies on their Enterprise Sy...

Interorganizational business process reengineering is a logical extension of discussions in the 1980s of the potential for interorganizational systems to fundamentally redefine relationships between buyers and sellers and even competitors within an industry context. This paper presents a framework or model describing the relationship between technological and process innovations, and describes ...

Innovation and the Information Communication technologies (ICT) have been two important topics in the study of competitive advantage for firms since the 1980s. Traditionally, most researches have focused either on ICT or innovation but there are few works about the role played by ICT to improve the innovation process. The main issue of this research which is not really explored in the academic ...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to map the process opening an innovation network in context Brazilian agroforestry sector. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative case study open Embrapa Florestas (17 semi-structured interviews, observation and documentary data). Social analysis (SNA) from primary data available at Florestas’ system. Findings Three triggers were identified. starts with clo...