Technological, Managerial and Organizational Core Competencies: Dynamic Innovation and Sustainable Development

✍ Scribed by Farley Simon Nobre, David Walker, Robert Harris

• Publisher: Business Science Reference
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 732
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Innovation involves a set of processes which support the production and transformation of knowledge into new processes, technologies and products, goods and services, and provide an organization with particular strengths and value relative to other firms. In such a view, innovation is a key source of customer benefits and sustainable competitive advantage.Technological, Managerial and Organizational Core Competencies: Dynamic Innovation and Sustainable Development investigates the impact of knowledge management, information systems, finance, organizational networks, internationalization, strategic management, marketing, entrepreneurship, and sustainability on an organization that pursues dynamic innovation and sustainable advantage. This book provides research and practice for graduate and undergraduate programs, as well as business firms with different technological, managerial, and organizational perspectives.

✦ Table of Contents

Title......Page 2
Copyright Page......Page 3
Dedication......Page 4
Editorial Advisory Board......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 7
Foreword
......Page 13
Foreword
......Page 16
Preface......Page 18
Acknowledgement......Page 38
Section 1. Sustainability and Innovation
......Page 39
Environmental Rationality......Page 40
A Model for Improving the Adoption of Sustainability in the Context of Globalization and Innovation......Page 57
Product-Service Systems as Enabler for Sustainability-Oriented Innovation......Page 79
Innovation for Sustainability in Aviation......Page 94
Diffusion and Adoption of Innovations for Sustainability......Page 112
Social Innovation, Environmental Innovation, and Their Effect on Competitive Advantage and Firm Performance......Page 128
Observe, Conceive, Design, Implement and Operate......Page 144
Section 2. Organizational Networks and Innovation
......Page 169
The Integration of Independent Inventors in Open Innovation......Page 170
An Examination of Independent Inventor Integration in Open Innovation......Page 185
Firm-Specific Factors and the Degree of Innovation Openness......Page 206
Effects of Product Development Phases on Innovation Network Relationships......Page 230
Maturity in Innovation Network Management......Page 242
Science Parks and Their Role in the Innovation Process......Page 269
Section 3. Entrepreneurship and Innovation
......Page 283
Entrepreneurial Learning and Innovation......Page 284
Innovation and Corporate Reputation Innovation and Corporate Reputation......Page 303
Natural Resource Dependency and Innovation in the GCC Countries......Page 317
Innovation in Scenario Building......Page 341
Section 4. Knowledge Management and Innovation
......Page 365
Toward a More Pragmatic Knowledge Management......Page 366
Knowledge and the Politics of Innovation......Page 386
Innovation and Knowledge Management for Sustainability......Page 404
Dynamic Capabilities and Innovation Radicalness......Page 423
Section 5. R&D&T Management and Innovation
......Page 446
Research Profiles......Page 447
Determinants and Consequences of R&D Strategy Selection......Page 467
Institutional Innovation Practices in Technopoles......Page 489
Choosing Locations for Technology and Innovation Support Centers......Page 513
Section 6. Marketing and Innovation
......Page 529
Taxonomy of Marketing Core Competencies for Innovation......Page 530
Self Regulation on Innovative Products Choice......Page 547
The New Product Development Process as a Communication Web Part I......Page 565
The New Product Development Process as a Communication Web Part II......Page 579
Section 7. Finance and Innovation
......Page 593
Innovations and Financing of SMEs Part I......Page 594
Innovations and Financing of SMEs Part II......Page 613
Section 8. Internationalization and Innovation
......Page 628
The Recent Internationalization of Brazilian Companies......Page 629
R&D Internationalization as Mechanism of Innovation in Global Enterprises......Page 658
Section 9. Information Systems and Innovation
......Page 678
Tools That Drive Innovation......Page 679
The Roles of Cognitive Machines in Customer-Centric Organizations......Page 692
About the Contributors......Page 714
Index......Page 727

✦ Subjects

Финансово-экономические дисциплины;Инновации;