The evolving role of Information Technology (IT) in business innovation places increasing emphasis on the role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO). Yet, the role of the CIO in business innovation is understudied in the extant literature. Drawing on organizational theory of boundary spanning leadership, we posit that the CIO’s crossfunctional role pertaining to entities and functions outside ...

This paper fills in the gap innovation–internationalisation research based on differences between low and high internationalised firms. It examines how open innovation model serves as a mediator, transforming culture into inbound, coupled outbound innovation. A cross-sectional was used, data were collected 2014 sample of 82 telecommunication sector, obtaining response rate 26% total firms Repub...

The majority of innovation research seeks to establish frameworks regarding the definition and identification of innovation; complementarily, there exists a dearth of research attempting to provide frameworks for evaluating the effectiveness of innovation within a firm. Adapting an existing “web” framework, we created the redesigned innovation “web” with redefined dimensions of innovation and a...

National innovation systems are influencing the path of innovation diffusion like e-business. Important enablers of e-business diffusion are IT mature and innovation friendly enterprises. An indicator of IT maturity is the diffusion of former innovations like electronic data interchange (EDI). The innovation adoption behavior can be described as the adopting date after occurrence of an innovati...

The successful deployment of the energy transition relies on a deep reorganization of the energy market. Business model innovation is recognized as a key driver of this process. This work contributes to this topic by providing to potential local energy management (LEM) stakeholders and policy makers a conceptual framework guiding the LEM business model innovation. The main determinants characte...

abstract: we are living in a world that is increasingly faced with dynamic, complex and unpredictable business environment. in this situation, creating and sustaining competitive advantage depends on continuous businesses innovativeness and technological improvement that is basically done by r& d organizations. there are a vast literature on the positive relationship between leadership and perf...

We discuss a theoretical conceptual framework to help understand how the new business analytics technologies have diffused in firms. We draw on three theoretical perspectives for this purpose. They are innovation diffusion theory, IT Business Value and the technology-organization-environment theory. We develop a conceptual framework that helps understand the interlinkages among factors affectin...

The newly evolved trends of transformation in the entrepreneurships, their establishment, operation and management, and subsequent alterations in the entrepreneurship’s knowledge arena has brought out the idea of open innovation, suggesting that ideas for innovations can transpire or go to market from outside the company as well as inside. Leaders among the global entrepreneurships, among other...