Innovation in Business and Enterprise: Technologies and Frameworks

✍ Scribed by Latif Al-Hakim

• Publisher: Business Science Reference
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 374
• Series: Premier Reference Source
• Edition: First
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Innovation is essential to maintaining organizations long-term stability and increasing both the quality and value of goods and services. Innovation in Business and Enterprise: Technologies and Frameworks focuses on managing innovation through bridging gaps created from theories, relative advantages or competitiveness, social differences, and innovation capability and performance.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
......Page 2
Table of Contents......Page 4
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 7
Foreword......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgment......Page 21
Cumulative Causation as Explanatory Theory for Innovation......Page 24
Lowering the Center of Gravity around Enterprise IT......Page 42
Are the Pre-Diffusion Phases Shortening?......Page 59
Links between Innovation, Change and Learning in Chinese Companies......Page 76
What Makes Companies to be More Innovative and Profitable?......Page 87
Usage of ICT Tools in New Product Development: Creating User-Involvement......Page 99
Factors and Dimensions of National Innovative Capacity......Page 115
Entrepreneurship Competencies and Management Capabilities for Innovation and Sustainable Growth: Empirical Study......Page 128
Building a Radical Innovation Mechanism at Large Firms......Page 143
A Performance Evaluation Framework for Innovation......Page 158
The Impact of Labour Flexibility and HRM on Innovation......Page 173
Harnessing Knowledge for Innovation in Social Enterprises: An Intellectual Capital Perspective......Page 185
Factors Predicting the Innovation Climate......Page 208
Advancing the Potential of Diversity for Innovation......Page 232
Managing Corporate Social Responsibility as an Innovation in China......Page 247
Study of SME Innovation in two Queensland Industries......Page 263
Innovation System Linkages in Indian Hydrocarbon Sector......Page 283
Nanotechnology Innovation Systems: A Regional Comparison......Page 303
Compilation of References......Page 322
About the Contributors......Page 360
Index......Page 368