In recent years the proliferation of a new technological evolution has aroused great interest from science and practice: social media. Subsuming different types of online applications where users can create, edit and share content, social media enables new forms of interaction with others. Organisations already recognise its relevance and start leveraging on it. Furthermore, organisations ident...

abstract because of today's dynamic business environment and three emerging major trends of intense international competition, discrete markets, and changing technology, innovation is drawing increasing attention as a solution. these trends have aroused business scholars’ interest in running in-depth investigations on the concept of social capital as a critical factor in improving organizationa...

Social innovation has been contextualized as a new way of resolving deeply entrenched development issues. The identification and resolution of social needs is said to be the driving force of social innovation. With features such as sustainability and scalability, social innovation has the potential to change the way we perceive and engage with development in the future. This research takes a cr...

This article makes an attempt to understand crowdsourcing and its increasing importance in organizations. It explores how crowd acts as a problem solver and crowdsourcing generates ideas that lead to open innovation for an organization. The paper also throws light on how with the arrival and advancement of digital technologies, the concept of crowdsourcing has gained popularity and has received...

today, in addition to physical capital, social capital, entrepreneurship is the determining factor. therefore, this study was designed to investigate the influence of social capital on entrepreneurship; to evaluate the impact of social capital on entrepreneurial innovation is the role of mediator. the study had a sample of 130 female entrepreneurs ilam through simple random sampling has been do...

given the importance of innovation in a stormy environment with ongoing changes for the organizations, in this study, to identify a noteworthy aspect of community change from the viewpoint of organizational behavior we attempt to examine social capital of employees in an involved organization in change. the aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of social capital components (cognitive, ele...

the purpose of this research was analyzing knowledge of women with household jobs agriculture toward innovation management in masjed soliman township, khouzestan province, iran. the population of this study included women with household jobs agriculture in masjed soliman township. the total number of members was 100 people. due to the low number of population, census methods were used to collec...

Since the reconstruction of Joseph Schumpeter’s view of innovation as a driver of capitalist development and the subsequent formation of the national innovation systems (NIS) theory in the early 1990s that can be described as neo-Schumpeterian, there has been a continuous attempt to analyse innovation. However, much of this has positioned innovation as a value-neutral process. We argue that suc...

As social media attract increasing attention from executives and find varied applications in different industries and fields of practice, research on the subject has been investigating the antecedents, moderators, mediators and outcomes of social media adoption, as well as impacts on the organizational and individual level. However, relatively little attention has been paid to the discussion of...