This paper discusses the role of initiatives in dynamic collaborative processes of services innovation and evolution in the organizational context of an enterprise. The research is based on the current state of the art on modeling initiatives and services and studies phenomena of innovation and evolution for supporting services. Within our approach, we propose definitions for the key concepts r...

This paper develops an analytical framework, namely the concept of entrepreneurial propensity of innovation systems by integrating knowledge intensive entrepreneurship (KIE) and innovation system (IS) concepts. It first uses a composite index methodology to measure knowledge intensive entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial opportunities at the national level. It then assesses the influence of the...

Since the concepts of "customer innovation" (2002) and “crowdsourcing” (2006) were introduced, researchers have focused their attention on the phenomenon of crowdsourcing innovation. Relevant research includes the crowd’s characteristics, the crowd’s applicability in different phases of developing innovations, and instrumental aspects of web-based crowd innovation. However, there has been no re...

Within the open innovation debate, significant attention has been paid to the fact that customers can be a useful source for bringing new ideas and concepts into a company. In this context, online platforms have become a widely used instrument to facilitate interaction between companies and customers. While prior literature discusses various aspects of open innovation platforms, a market-orient...

This is a theoretical paper about artifacts that have been designed to enable processes of collaborative knowledge creation and innovation. We refer to these artifacts as Enabling Spaces, and they comprise architectural, technological (ICT), social, cognitive, organizational, cultural, as well as emotional dimensions. The paper claims that innovation is a highly challenging social and epistemol...

This paper presents what I think is an innovation, the use of work system concepts as a lens for understanding IT innovation in organizations. It starts by presenting the ideas at the heart of the work system approach, the work system framework for describing an existing or proposed work system and the work system life cycle model for describing how work systems change over time. To demonstrate...

Unlearning is defined as throwing away concepts learnt in the past to give space for possible new learning. The learning process that supports deep change should be composed by different unlearning-learning phases, both at the individual level and at a more general organizational level. Must unlearning and relearning concepts be explicitly considered in business process reengineering based on t...

Driving innovation and continuous improvement with regard to ecological, environmental and human sustainability is essential for win–win globalization. That calls for research on strategic and monitoring planning to manage globalization and technological and scientific change. This paper describes a new basic function of the university institution ‘to teach students to be critical about any kin...

Cultivating collective innovation while preserving the interest of the individual contributors is one of the main challenges collaborative innovation networks face. This challenge is riddled with difficulties in managing individuals’ co-innovation risks. The first step toward understanding co-innovation risks is the development of a valid and reliable model to measure the actors’ perception of ...

development of innovation and organizational learning in order to gain a sustainable competitive advantage and improve organizational performance needs appropriate circumstances under which management leadership styles remain an important factor. therefore, this study aimed to analyze the impact of leadership styles on organizational performance through innovation and learning that was conducte...