Managers need to encourage creativity and capture team ideas when designing the strategic approach Essential to Growth and Competitiveness, business manager actions must be in line with their ...intentions. In many organizations, innovation occurs through statements designed to change the world, but ends in abandonment. In order to keep the company competitive on the market, promoting an organizational culture based on innovation is the key to ensuring success. Admitting that innovation means generating value from ideas, resulting in a different way of acting and producing better things (products, services, processes), we believe ideas are vital to the development of any innovation. Successful and fastest growing companies are those companies that use innovative solutions in their current business, and that is why a significant proportion of their revenue is generated by new or improved products and services.
We explored how the knowledge translation and innovation processes are structured when theyresult in innovations, as in the case of liposomal doxorubicin research. In order to map the processes, a ...literature network analysis was made through Cytoscape and semantic analysis was performed by GOPubmed which is based in the controlled vocabularies MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) and GO (Gene Ontology). We found clusters related to different stages of the technological development (invention, innovation and imitation) and the knowledge translation process (preclinical, translational and clinical research), and we were able to map the historic emergence of Doxil as a paradigmatic nanodrug. This research could be a powerful methodological tool for decision-making and innovation management in drug delivery research.
Purpose
This paper focuses on how investments in research and development (R&D) and advertising affect the performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) during recessions.
...Design/methodology/approach
Contingency theory is applied to a dataset of 376 Italian clothing SMEs during the period 2000-2010 to test whether investment in R&D and advertising impacts financial performance differently when contingent factors (such as market share, financial leverage and business model change) are taken into account.
Findings
Empirical results confirm that market share and leverage moderate the effects of investments in R&D and advertising (i.e. intangibles) on performance, and also that changes in business models are an important contingent factor that explains performance. Specifically, the paper ascertains that a novelty-centered business model, together with investments in intangibles, positively affects performance during recessions.
Originality/value
This study offers an input to the debate on how SMEs develop and sustain their competitive advantage during the recession. It contributes to existent theory by showing whether and how contingencies, such as a firm’s market share and leverage, moderate the relationship between performance and investments in R&D and advertising in SMEs. Second, it addresses the call for additional data ‘about the strategic effects of business models and how they influence the positioning of firms in their competitive environment’ (Amit and Zott, 2008:20) by introducing business model change/innovation as a new contingency factor and by empirically testing its effects on ‘objective measures of firm performance’ (Bock, Opsahl, George, and Gann, 2012:301).
This study explores the willingness of service providers to incorporate changes suggested by clients altering previously planned services during its delivery, hereby named Willingness to Change in ...Services WCS. We apply qualitative research techniques to map seven dimensions related to this phenomenon: Client relationship management; Organizational conditions for change; Software characteristics and development; Conditions affecting teams; Administrative procedures and decision-making conditions; Entrepreneurial behavior; Interaction with supporting organizations. These dimensions have been converted into variables composing a WCS scale later submitted to theoretical and semantic validations. A scale with 26 variables resulted from such procedures was applied on a large survey carried out with 351 typical Brazilian software development service companies operating all over the country. Data from our sample have been submitted to multivariate statistical analysis to provide validation for the scale. After factorial analysis procedures, 24 items have been validated and assigned to three factors representative of WCS: Organizational Routines and Values - 12 variables; Organizational Structure for Change - 6 variables; and Service Specificities - 6 variables. As future contributions, we expect to see further testing for the WCS scale on alternative service activities to provide evidence about its limits and contributions to general service innovation theory.
This paper is an exploratory study that examines how management accounting can be designed to improve problem solving at an operational level. A case study is used to describe a number of ...improvements that were made to the problem solving process at a manufacturing company, including changes to the system of variance analysis. After discussing these improvements collectively, the paper focuses on four of the changes to variance analysis and examines their theoretical effect on problem solving. Four propositions are developed and tested using a cross-sectional study and the results indicate that three of the four changes are associated with improved problem solving.
This article traces 30 years of library instruction innovation, including the creation of the first conference on Library Orientation at Eastern Michigan University in 1971 and the LOEX (Library ...Orientation Exchange) Clearinghouse, both of which continue to this day. Particular attention is paid to information literacy project activities in the national and international environments.
The practices of innovative in Human Resources Management (HRM) has been discussed in both the academic and professional literature. This article contributes to the debate on the evolution of ...innovative human resource practices in France during the last five years. From an exploratory empirical study of 28 French companies, we seek to depict the more innovative changes in the practices of HRM for enhancement in organisational performance.
Dieser Beitrag befasst sich mit Schulentwicklung an kleinen Schulen in ländlichen Regionen des alpinen Raums dreier Sprachregionen. Anhand von Fallbeispielen werden innovative lokale sowie regionale ...Lösungsansätze von kleinen Schulen diskutiert und es wird der Frage nachgegangen, welche Einflussgrössen innovatives Verhalten an kleinen Schulen fördern. Zusätzlich will der Beitrag Erfolgsfaktoren für die nachhaltige Implementation von Innovationen zur Erhaltung der kleinen Schulen in ländlichen Regionen herauskristallisieren. (DIPF/Orig.).
This article deals with the development of small schools in rural alpine areas in three different linguistic regions. On the basis of case studies, a number of small schools' different local inventive solutions will be discussed. The question of which influencing variables drive innovative developments will also be analysed. Additionally, this article aims to identify factors of success for the sustainable implementation of innovations to preserve small schools in peripheral regions. (DIPF/Orig.).
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