With the increasing importance of leadership in project-based organizations, innovation is essential for the sustainable development of construction projects. Since few studies have explored the relationship between leadership and innovation in construction projects, this study fills this research gap and makes a significant theoretical contribution to the existing body of literature. Based on ...

Purpose The measure of companies' Innovation Performance is fundamental for enhancing the value and decision-making processes firms. purpose this paper to present a new Performance, called Patent Index (IPI), which makes it possible quantitatively summarize different aspects firms' innovation. Design/methodology/approach In order define IPI, secondary source, i.e. patent data, has been used. fi...

Innovation depends heavily on knowledge. Intellectual capital is a vital asset of an organization in a knowledge-based economy. The intellectual capital for Innovation capability in advance of motivation should lead to superior performance. This study traces the impact relationship of intellectual capital on innovation capability and organizational performance of the Apparel industry in Sri Lan...

Driven by the trend of global economic integration, informationlization and networking, the era of open innovation has arrived. Relationship network has become a new research approach of probing into the enterprises’ innovation, but the results are various. This research draws 114 samples from high-tech enterprises, utilizing structural equation modeling, aiming to explore the relationship amon...

This study explores the effectiveness of an intra-firm online distributed innovation initiative, in the form of a Stock Market for Innovation (SMI). As in traditional stock markets, the SMI is prone to gambling activities. Controlling for a set of previously studied motivational factors affecting innovation performance, we study the impact of gambling behavior on effective innovative performanc...

The operational plan converts dream and imagination to a reality; in fact, it is anassured way to achieve organizational perspectives. The present study aimsto identify the performance indicators and to investigate the relationship between the operational performances of industrial manufacturing companies in terms of innovation, quality, productivity and efficiency. A researcher-made questionna...

This paper presents the results of a mail survey used to investigate the relationship between continuous improvement/innovation management practices and SME performance in Australia. Multi-item scales were developed and used to measure key components of continuous improvement and innovation management. Nine dimensions of SME performance were measured, for example, speed to market, success rate ...