This study examines the impact of inbound and coupled open innovation (OI) strategies in single complex innovators, whereby former concerns firms that engage either product or process innovation, while latter encompasses simultaneously innovations. Moreover, relative performance effects OI innovators are largely unexplored. Data derived from German survey. It focuses on small medium-sized enter...

Free Culture A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does this indirectly by limiting the reach of those rights, to guarantee that follow-on creators and innovators remain as free as possible from the control of the past. ...The opposite of a free culture is permission culture – a culture in which creat...

It is now clear that users often innovate, and that they often freely reveal their innovations. But what about informal cooperation among users? What about organized cooperation in development of innovations and other matters? The answer is that both flourish among user-innovators. Informal user-to-user cooperation, such as assisting others to innovate, is common. Organized cooperation in which...

As part of its Raise the Voice campaign to showcase nurses who are key players in transforming health care, the American Academy of Nursing has identified nurses they call edge runners--"practical innovators who have led the way in bringing new thinking and new methods to a wide range of health care challenges." With this article on Marilyn Rantz, a 2008 edge runner for the "Aging in Place Proj...

Innovators are creative people who can conjure the ground-breaking ideas that represent main engine of innovative organizations. Past research has extensively investigated innovators and how they behave in work-related activities. In this paper, we suggest it is necessary to analyze other contexts, such as informal communication spaces, where knowledge shared without formal structure, rules, wo...

Orientation: This study was positioned within the field of positive psychology, specifically organisational behaviour scholarship (POBS). Research purpose: The aim research to investigate relationship between psychological capital (PsyCap), employees’ innovative thinking and their behaviour. Motivation for study: Psychological has been associated with many outcomes, but relatively little previo...

This paper is the second of the series of studies entitled ‘‘Innovativeness and Involvement as Determinants of Website Loyalty’’, which was designed to test Foxall’s [(1995). Cognitive styles of consumer initiators. Technovation 15(5), 269–288] style/involvement model in the context of Internet buyer behaviours. In this paper, a consumer Website loyalty model was proposed to describe how consum...