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The article is devoted to the issues of improving the quality and competitiveness of products on the basis of information and analytical support of projects. The main characteristics of the internal and external contours, connected with the procedures for collecting, analyzing and interpreting information data concerning the innovative activity of enterprises are given. The main features of the use...
This paper argues that organizational innovativeness may have some influence on university performance. The sampling frame used is extracted from the directory of academic and management staffs of selected private universities in Malaysia. The primary motivations of this paper is to focus on the impact of creativity, openness to new ideas, intention to innovate, willingness for risk taking, and capacity...
This paper examines the individual IS manager's ability to exploit current IT capabilities and explore new technology innovations. It extends the concept of ambidexterity, which is often studied at the firm or business unit level, to the individual level, and draws from open innovation theory to examine how the ability of an individual IS manager to explore and exploit is associated with their degree...
Innovation Relay Centre(IRC) is a successful technology transfer network for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). IRC shows many brand-new characteristics of intermediary transfer organizations, and simultaneously increases many new risks. From the view of risk management, the paper comprehensively analyzed the risk factors which affected the IRC operation through factor analysis technology,...
Under economic transition period, Chinese firms need not only the adaptive ability responsive to external environment, but also the basic exercise of scientific management. In terms of leaders in the firm, except for higher innovation capability, more importantly, they require for the ability of contingency rewards and management by exception. Recognizing the importance of transactional leadership...
The essence of learning organization is to improve the growth of individual and organization; whereas, the empirical studies about the relationship between learning organization and outcomes of individual and organization are not enough to meet the needs for theoretical and practical research. The purpose of this study is to exam the developmental stage of learning culture and its impact on individual...
The rapid development of services leisure and entertainment industry is an important feature of industrial change in the last 20 years. For China, we are in the upgrading of the industrial structure and in the new economic growth, so to develop fully and promote the industry has a special significance. If your business always wants to keep the state of success, the innovation idea is very necessary,...
Till now, much research has been done on the immediate impact of human resource on technological innovation, while neglecting the role of intermediary variables. The influence path of human resource on technological innovation is not clear yet. Therefore, it is very important that we study the influence path of human resource on enterprise technological innovation. The paper uses 176 samples derived...
According to the dynamic capabilities theory, firm competitive advantage results from dynamic capacities in turbulenten environments. Dynamic capabilities are defined as the firm's ability to integrate, build, and reconfigure internal and external competences to improve the operating capabilities and make further contribution to the adaptation to the rapidly changing environments. This study collects...
This study investigates the 217 enterprises in Pearl River Delta Region to examine the interactive effect among organizational innovation, organizational learning and organizational performance. A moderate effect model is formulated and validated. The results of hierarchical multiple regression not only show that organizational innovation and organizational learning have direct effect on performance,...
Based on literature review, this study proposed three hypotheses about learning culture and individual innovative behavior. The model was validated in structural equation modeling by investigating 391 employees from 46 organizations. The results indicate that individual learning has positive effects on innovative idea generation, organizational learning has positive effects on both innovative idea...
The study develops and tests a theoretical model in which employee innovation is influenced by individual perception of organizational politics and charismatic leadership. Two types of charismatic leadership, socialized versus personalized leadership, are examined. We propose that socialized leadership negatively influence individual perception of organizational politics, which in turn negatively...
As a key influencing factor, top management is very important for organizational innovation. With the survey data from 112 Chinese firms, the relationship between top management styles and organizational innovation is analyzed. Based on cluster analysis, four styles of top management, labelled mechanical, moderate, autocratic entrepreneurial and democratic entrepreneurial, were empirically derived...
Continuous innovation needs the dynamic alignment of today's operational effectiveness and tomorrow's strategic flexibility. This paper tries to develop continuous innovation theory by adding March's taxonomy of learning in continuous innovation theory and suggests that the dynamic synergy of explorative and exploitative learning is the key for continuous innovation. An empirical study suggests that...
Fuelled by increased interest among organizations to team up with their customers, technologies for supporting open innovation are emerging. In this paper, we explore how current technologies are designed to support open innovation, in order to envision future developments and research challenges. A sample of 51 systems has been classified. Surprisingly, we found that most technologies for open innovation...
In this paper, we use social capital theory to discuss the transfer of knowledge between firms, aiming to verify whether or not social capital may be considered as a critical factor of knowledge transfer and innovation performance. We constructed a theoretical model to analysis the impact of social capital on inter-firm knowledge transfer and innovation performance. The model consists of independent...
This paper proposes a conceptual model of social capital, external organizational integration and new product development (NPD) performance, and conducts empirical study based on the investigation of domestic manufacturing enterprises. The results show that social capital has positive impact on external organizational integration, external organizational integration has positive impact on NPD performance,...
Based on a lot of related literatures, the authors suggest a model of three factors that affect new product development performance, which include market orientation, organizational learning and organizational Innovation. The empirical result tests the relationships among them. And they all have positive influence on new product development performance. Organizational innovation also serves as a partial...
Organizational learning and product innovation are two important approaches to improve product quality. Various dimensions of them may have different effects on product quality, which has received less attention from the research community. More specifically, the role of organizational learning has not been fully addressed in quality management empirical studies. To address this gap we develop a path...
This paper outlines the critical role of employees' job satisfaction in the link between TQM and innovation performance. The discussion arises primarily based on the considerable controversy concerning this relationship that appears in the literature. As of interest to resolve this controversy, a research framework is developed in which job satisfaction acts as the mediator between TQM and firm's...
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