Innovation is often regarded as uniformly positive. This paper shows that the role of innovation in quality improvement is more complicated. The authors identify three known paradoxes of innovation in healthcare. First, some innovations diffuse rapidly, yet are of unproven value or limited value, or pose risks, while other innovations that could potentially deliver benefits to patients remain s...

This paper presents a view of innovation as a process that changes value systems of producers and adopters of creative design ideas. Value systems comprise interpretations of the function and behaviour of an artefact, encapsulated in a producer’s or adopter’s situation. Changes in these value systems can be induced using distinct classes of processes. The paper shows that innovation requires ch...

Service-dominant logic (SDL) provides a conceptual understanding of and widens the view on value creation in service innovation for product-centric companies. However, empirical research linking SDL and service innovation is still limited albeit expanding. This study provides insights beyond existing discussions on product and service dimensions using the theoretical lens of the value logic per...

Purpose Although innovation ecosystems (IEs) are generally considered capable of creating shared value (SV), this potentiality has often been taken for granted and not deeply analysed, yet. As a result, in the literature, there is framework that defines process SV creation IEs or which aspects should be understanding it. Moving from these considerations, paper aims to propose conceptual model h...

COVID-19 pandemic crisis threatened the stability of economy and survival many firms, but it has been also chance to challenge current economic development path rethink firms’ business models according a more sustainable approach. Academic literature states that model (BM) innovation is driver for transition sustainability. Sustainable (SBMs) incorporate sustainability vision in main components...

Most previous research in this area has conceptualized innovation through one or more dimensions of a firm’s innovative capability such as R&D of a firm. The measurement of the construct has thus reflected this narrow conceptualization with a single measure such as R&D expenditure of a firm being the most often used proxy. This study utilizes a broader definition of organizational innovation ca...

The purpose of this research is determining the Value Innovation in Social Computing platforms by an intelligent system. Here a Fuzzy Expert System has been designed with the consideration of four actions of Blue Ocean Strategy as input variables. The Value Innovation level is determined in this system as output. The rules of systems have been extracted from some entrepreneurship experts and th...

We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms’ ability to adapt their organizational processes and structures. Starting from complexity theory, we use three consecutive waves of the German part of the Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness of organizational adaptability,...

Purpose The overarching theme is the importance of innovations that are created within the emerging economies. More specifically, the article looks at the development of various alternatives to vehicles powered by the internal combustion engine, new energy vehicles (NEVs) within China. Design/methodology/approach The broad strategic approach of two sectors within the NEV sector in China, the pu...