U novel data on European firms, this paper investigates the relationship between business groups and innovation. Controlling for various firm characteristics, we find that group affiliates are more innovative than standalones. We examine several hypotheses to explain this finding, focusing on group internal capital markets and knowledge spillovers. We find that group affiliation is particularly...

This focus of the paper is on innovation in product and service domains. The two are tightly interrelated, as the benefits of product innovation are realized through the business activities, and certain business undertakings may impact the product design innovation. A data-driven approach to innovation is proposed. It is a natural extension of the system of customer requirements in terms of the...

This paper studies the evolution of business model (BM) innovations related to a multi business model framework. The paper tries to answer the research questions:  What are the requirements for a multi business model innovation model (BMIM)?  How should a multi business model innovation model look like? Different generations of BMIMs are initially studied in the context of laying the baseline...

Researchers and managers, over the decades have devoted significant amounts of time in trying to understand and manage the innovation process. This research paper explores one particular part of the innovation journey, the subjectivity of innovation management and the influence that a change in leadership style can have. A framework is presented which explores the sensemaking and subjectivity o...

O ver the past few decades, the Internet has grown to allow people to access and consume services on a global scale using traditional hosts and always-connected mobile devices such as smartphones, typically over the World Wide Web. By connecting objects and devices, the Internet of Things (IoT) will fully exploit networking’s potential and enable the application of innovative services to a larg...

Business to consumer electronic commerce will need better tools, beyond browsers and gadgets, for the user to take full advantage of the opportunities of the electronic marketplace. On the other side, business needs to rethink their positioning, and to deal with this new customer using new methods and tools. We present in this paper a tool for navigating large information spaces, such as the We...

Innovation as a key enabler of value creation has been the subject matter for study by several strategy researchers in the past few decades. However, the notion of business model innovation has not been distinctly established in the previous studies. This paper seeks to fulfill this objective. We develop a framework for business model innovation using a two-fold process. On the one hand, we exp...

Introduction This paper proposes a research program on Business Process Innovation: Towards Global Supply Chain Intelligence. Few words are more ubiquitous in business or society today than " innovation ". This reflects that businesses are striving for ways to survive and thrive in an increasingly complex and connected world (IBM 2006). Most industrial supply chains today are globally scattered...