Adopting an innovation systems approach, this paper addresses how institutions in supply markets (in the institutional economics sense of informal constraints and formal rules) influence the innovation process between firms. Within an innovation system, institutions may contain the ability not only to support but also to restrain the co-ordination of knowledge and skills in inter-organisational...

Under very complex environment, innovation-oriented crowdsourcing is becoming critical because it is not only the result of cumulative dynamic interaction involving many stakeholders, but also is a social, spatially embedded, and interactive learning process that cannot be understood independently of its institutional and cultural context. Bringing together different crowdsoursing phenomena, th...

Institutional involvement has been determinant in the diffusion of technological innovations, however little attention has been given to institutional intervention in the adoption and diffusion of e-commerce in SMEs. This study investigates the role of government in the adoption and diffusion of e-commerce in small and medium size enterprises. King et al. (1994) framework of institutional facto...

There were once again high expectations that a major global health event - the Ebola virus outbreak of 2014-2015 - would trigger meaningfully World Health Organization (WHO) reform and strengthen global health governance (GHG). Rather than a “turning point,” however, the global community has gone back to business as usual. This has occurred against a backdrop of worldwide political turmoil, cha...