Using a grounded theory method, this paper outlines the process followed and progress to date in developing concepts, their properties and theories of public sector organization (PSO) innovation. I have developed the concepts of PSO innovation, innovation patterns, capacity for fitness, fitness, and survival. While the use of evolutionary concepts like fitness and survival seems intuitively hel...

Knowledge management, innovativeness and innovation have an important impact on business development and survival. Empirically analyzing these three concepts is critical because of the importance of these concepts for creating competitive advantage. Organizations need to generate, modify, and manage knowledge in order to maintain their innovation capability. This study examines the relationship...

Innovation diffusion processes have attracted considerable research attention for their interdisciplinary character, which combines theories and concepts from disciplines such as mathematics, physics, statistics, social sciences, marketing, economics, technological forecasting. The formal representation of innovation historically used epidemic models borrowed biology, departing the logistic equ...

the purpose of the present paper is to investigate semantic deviation of the holy quran in amal donqol's poetry. deviation is one of the techniques of defamiliarization, and was first introduced by the russian formalists in 1917. constructivist attitude toward literary texts and emphasis on the aesthetic aspects of the literary works led formalists to consider literary language as the main...

In a last few decades, innovation research scholars proposed several new concepts, one after another, but independently, and in a chronological sequence: technology fusion; digital convergence; disruptive technology; open innovation; and IoT (Internet of Things). Each concept has its own explaining power for a certain innovation at a certain time period, but has obvious limitations. A basic que...