This paper gives an overview of various approaches to how innovations affect economic growth: from standard macroeconomic equilibrium theory, growth accounting, new growth theories, catching-up theories, evolutionary theories based on theories of techno-economic paradigms and co-evolution to a systems of innovation approach. The paper focuses on approaches which sees growth as emanating from pr...

Public organisations are normally overwhelmed with socio-technical challenges of Information Systems (IS) innovation at both organisational and institutional levels. However, most studies of these challenges adopt an organisational perspective, leaving the institutional perspective largely unanalysed. In this paper, the IS innovation challenges faced by a British local authority are analysed to...

We introduce a collective action model of institutional innovation. This model, based on converging perspectives from the technology innovation management and social movements literature, views institutional change as a dialectical process in which partisan actors espousing conflicting views confront each other and engage in political behaviors to create and change institutions. The model repre...

ISNAR, one of the 16 Future Harvest Centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), seeks to contribute to the generation and use of knowledge that fosters sustainable and equitable agricultural development. ISNAR's mission is to help bring about innovation in agricultural research institutions to increase the contribution of research to agricultural ...

Academic medical centers (AMCs) have the potential to be leaders in the era of healthcare delivery reform, but most have yet to display a commitment to delivery innovation on par with their commitment to basic research. Several institutional factors impede delivery innovation including the paucity of adequate training in design and implementation of new delivery models and the lack of establish...

The purpose of this paper is to develop the innovation system analysis by bringing together the “institutional” and “organizational” dimensions of the process of innovation at the firm level. The objective is to start elaborating a “systemic” theory of innovation in firms. The paper summons up the contributions and limits of “organizational” and “institutional” approaches to innovation. This pr...

We adopted a qualitative case study research design and examined a major Information System (IS) innovation project that aimed to develop and implement Human Resource Information System (HRIS) across all health organizations within one European National Health Organization (NHO). Here we set out to contribute to institutional literature by exploring the processes through which institutional pre...

This paper explores the relationship between micro-level innovation performance, changes in institutional frameworks and the mediating role of strategy embeddedness in the context of firms from emerging economies (known as latecomer firms). The paper is based on a multiple case-study design that draws on first-hand longitudinal evidence gathered during a three-year fieldwork campaign centered o...