This article examines the significance of culture as a moderator of innovation, and criticizes monolithic accounts of military resistance to innovation. It then describes a dimension of military culture focused on the concept of the ideal combatant, and how that concept relates to innovation. Military culture can be improved by: (1) engineering the competitive context for innovation, and (2) cr...

This study answers the question on whether areas of agglomeration or high industry specialization constitute supportive prone-to-innovation environments for generation radical innovation. By drawing CIS distinction between incremental vs innovation, we disentangle effect occurrence innovations, a phenomenon mostly overlooked. analysing large dataset 3,602 firms from and other geographic dataset...

The literature has discussed the introduction of incentive structures as a means achieving balance between organizational exploration and exploitation. This study posits that this is not reasonable approach to such balance. I used micro-economic model where explorative exploitative activities are modeled in accordance with definitions March (1991). shows personal cost employee performing was cr...

Social norms and institutions are mechanisms that facilitate coordination between individuals. A social innovation is a novel mechanism that increases the welfare of the individuals who adopt it compared with the status quo. We model the dynamics of social innovation as a coordination game played on a network. Individuals experiment with a novel strategy that would increase their payoffs provid...

This research in progress paper explores the barriers that CIOs experience in creating an IS Function which balances the competing and conflicting activities of strategic innovation (exploration) and incremental improvement (exploitation) to support the organisation in obtaining a position of sustainable competitive advantage. Drawing on the perceptions of the CIO role being complex, evolutiona...

Various types of policy instruments have been implemented to reduce local and global emissions, but the impact on innovation of different instruments has received less attention. This paper reviews empirical studies of the innovation impact of four main types of policy instruments in two high-emitting sectors. The conclusions are threefold. (1) Policy plays a key role for the development and di...

Incremental improvement of a deeply embedded technology system has been a hallmark of the automotive industry for a very long time. Efforts to develop alternatives have repeatedly failed. This paper analyses paper analyzes how Toyota started to challenge this pattern in the late 1990s, by the architectural innovation embodied in Prius, the first mass-produced hybrid-electric car. This is follow...