{"title":"Centralize or Decentralize? How Productivity Shocks Affect Authority in Organizations","authors":"Umberto Garfagnini","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2127229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2127229","url":null,"abstract":"This paper identifies how productivity shocks propagate within a multi-divisional organization and induce organizational change. Key ingredients are the presence of cross-divisional spillovers, background uncertainty associated with technology choices, and local information about the riskiness of innovation. When authority is decentralized and spillovers are small, a shock that increases the productivity gap across divisions increases the relative performance of centralization over decentralization and can lead the organization to centralize authority. Centralization: i) helps to curb the innovative ambitions of the manager of the most productive division, which hurt spillovers; and ii) improves communication within the organization when communication is most needed.","PeriodicalId":103805,"journal":{"name":"Innovation & Organizational Behavior eJournal","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123517050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elif Bascavusoglu-Moreau, S. Kopera, E. Wszendybył-Skulska
{"title":"The Role of Creativity in Development of Innovation in Tourism","authors":"Elif Bascavusoglu-Moreau, S. Kopera, E. Wszendybył-Skulska","doi":"10.7341/2013911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7341/2013911","url":null,"abstract":"Creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship are slogans that have become an integral part of modern tourism economy. Creativity and innovation of tourism economy as well as the meaning of creativity in tourism business are intensely discussed. Today, creativity is being frequently analyzed as a basic feature of actions performed on a daily basis in terms of both personal and professional life, a feature that every employee is required to possess. It means that employers and, above all, the education system must feel it necessary to develop certain conditions in which human creativity can be shaped, which is understood as a system that enables us to adjust to constantly changing environment and take a risk to apply new solutions to particular problems. The article aims to present the role of creativity in development of innovation in tourism as well as factors that improve it. The analytical part of the article will concentrate on the analysis of, inter alia, two significant groups of creativity determinants: factors related to availability of qualified staff on the local labor market as well as info-structure of tourism businesses.","PeriodicalId":103805,"journal":{"name":"Innovation & Organizational Behavior eJournal","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116666622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stiftungen Und Soziale Innovationen (Foundations and Social Innovation)","authors":"S. Bethmann","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2464232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2464232","url":null,"abstract":"German Abstract: Der folgende Beitrag geht der Frage nach, wie Stiftungen soziale Innovationen fordern konnen. Der erste Teil beschaftigt sich mit dem Organisationstyp der Stiftung, dem regulatorischen Umfeld und dominanten Strategien, die zur Zweckverwirklichung eingesetzt werden. Stiftungen wird das Potenzial zugeschrieben als Impulsgeber und soziale Innovatoren auftreten zu konnen. Dies konnte bisher aber insbesondere wegen der unscharfen und inflationaren Verwendung des Innovationsbegriffs kaum uberpruft werden. Der zweite Teil widmet sich daher dem Ursprung und den neuesten Erkenntnissen der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung uber soziale Innovationen. Eine Definition wird vorgestellt und der Prozess sozialer Innovation beschrieben. Im dritten Teil werden die Erkenntnisse aus der Innovationsliteratur auf die Arbeit von Stiftungen bezogen. Zum Schluss wird ein Idealtyp einer Stiftung fur soziale Innovationen vorgestellt.English Abstract: The following article explores the question of how foundations can promote social innovations. The first part deals with the foundation as organizational type, its regulatory environment and dominant foundations strategies. Foundations are often described as catalyst and initiators of social innovation. However, if foundations really can fulfill this role has been difficult to assess. The term social innovation was used rather as a buzz word and without sufficient analytical reflection. Therefore, the second part of the paper discusses social innovation from a social science research perspective. A definition is provided and the process of social innovation is explained. In the third part the concept of social innovation is applied to foundations. Different tools foundations can use to initiate and promote social innovations are discussed. Finally, an ideal type of a foundation for social innovation is presented.","PeriodicalId":103805,"journal":{"name":"Innovation & Organizational Behavior eJournal","volume":"249 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114479923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Juan Mejía-Trejo, J. Sánchez-Gutiérrez, José Francisco Haro-Beas
{"title":"Customer Knowledge to Improve the Innovation: The Relationship in México.","authors":"Juan Mejía-Trejo, J. Sánchez-Gutiérrez, José Francisco Haro-Beas","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2508402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2508402","url":null,"abstract":"The Knowledge Management (KM) improves the innovation in the firms based on information (OECD, 2003). Gebert, Geib, Kolbe, & Riempp, (2013) showed the sense of information: for, from and about the customers, that increase the market opportunities; this is called Customer Knowledge Management (CKM). The different Innovation Stages (INNOVS) increase the competitive advantage (OECD, 2005). Hence: ?Which is the conceptual model that relates the variables, dimensions and indicators from CKM with INNOVS? A questionnaire was designed using Likert scale and the Cronbach's alpha for confidence measurement, Pearson's Correlation and Multiple Regression Analysis (MRA) with stepwise method, was applied in 200 SME's belonging to the software developer sector located in Guadalajara City (SDSGC), Mexico. Independent variables are based on CKM to explain the dependent variable INNOVS. CKM as a Driver Innovation (CKMADI) and CKM other sources of Knowledge (CKMOSK) on INNOVS showed correlation.","PeriodicalId":103805,"journal":{"name":"Innovation & Organizational Behavior eJournal","volume":"312 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123466589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Right to Innovate","authors":"A. Torrance, E. von Hippel","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2339132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2339132","url":null,"abstract":"Individual citizens have been found to be a major source of new product and service innovations of value both to themselves and to the economy at large. These citizen innovators operate in a little understood legal environment that we call the innovation wetlands. We show via a review of fundamental rights guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution and elsewhere that individuals in the United States participating in the innovation wetlands possess strong legal protections with respect to both their freedom to innovate and their right to diffuse information about their innovations to others. However, we also show that legislation and regulation — often promulgated without awareness of consumer innovation as a valuable resource — can, in practice, significantly interfere with individuals’ exercise of their fundamental freedom to innovate. This interference can cost society dearly by discouraging and slowing innovation or even thwarting it entirely. Just as intellectual property may chill citizen user and open innovation by raising the costs of innovation, so may regulatory property rights agencies grant to incumbent market actors.We offer three approaches to protecting the valuable resource of innovation by individuals from excessive negative impacts caused by legislation and regulation. First, we propose enhancing general awareness of the issue by framing the concept of individual innovation rights as an “innovation wetlands” that must be protected from encroachment and despoilment. Second, we describe the legislative and regulatory frameworks and practices that demark today’s innovation wetlands, as experienced by individual and collaborating innovators. Third, we suggest improvements that can strengthen protection of the innovation wetlands, including heightening awareness of the issue in existing, mandated cost–benefit analyses that are already applied, although imperfectly, to regulation in the United States.","PeriodicalId":103805,"journal":{"name":"Innovation & Organizational Behavior eJournal","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127014061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Types of Bondholders Impede Corporate Innovative Activities?","authors":"I. Hasan, J. O’Brien, Pengfei Ye","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2353791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2353791","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates whether institutional bond blockholders (i.e., bond funds that hold more than 5% of a firm's outstanding bonds) impede firm innovative activities, and if they do, through which channels. We find that long-term bond blockholders do not discourage firms from conducting innovative activities. Short-term bond blockholders, however, significantly reduce both firm investments in RD Innovation; Investment Horizon; Wall Street Walk","PeriodicalId":103805,"journal":{"name":"Innovation & Organizational Behavior eJournal","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116100494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Emerging Markets are Reshaping the Innovation Architecture of Global Firms","authors":"Venkatesh Shankar, Nicole Hanson","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2298867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2298867","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to advance knowledge on how firms should rethink and develop their innovation architecture by leveraging emerging market opportunities.Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides a conceptual framework comprising the drivers and consequences of innovation architecture across emerging and developed markets. It also highlights emerging market innovation characteristics using detailed examples.Findings/conclusions – Most of the future growth in the global economy will come from emerging markets. Successful global firms will have to rethink and develop their innovation architecture by leveraging innovations developed for emerging markets. By balancing the long-term costs and benefits of innovations in both developed and emerging markets, global firms can successfully reshape their innovation architecture.Practical implications – From a practical perspective, the paper provides guidelines to executives for managing innovation architecture across emerging and developed markets. Innovations appropriately developed and launched in emerging markets have the potential to expand global consumer base and increase shareholder value.Social implications – From a societal standpoint, the paper helps improve consumer welfare in emerging markets by offering a roadmap to develop safe, relevant, and affordable products for mainstream customers. Reverse innovations, developed primarily for emerging markets also benefit consumers in developed markets and enhance their social welfare.Value/originality – The paper provides an original theoretical contribution in an important and underexplored research area – emerging market innovation. It is the first to develop an in-depth analysis of innovation architecture, advance a conceptual framework of the role of emerging markets in the development and consequences of innovation architecture, and offer a roadmap for strategic management of innovation architecture. Academic researchers, practitioners, and policy makers will benefit from this paper.","PeriodicalId":103805,"journal":{"name":"Innovation & Organizational Behavior eJournal","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132219210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intellectual Property Rights and Foreign Technology Adoption in Developing Countries: An Empirical Investigation","authors":"Elisabetta Gentile","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2290507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2290507","url":null,"abstract":"The paper addresses the question of whether expanded and strengthened protection of IPRs fosters technology transfer to developing countries, which is one of the premises at the basis of the TRIPS Agreement. Cross-sectional analysis of firms operating in 43 developing countries indicates that stronger IPRs facilitate technology transfer only for firms operating in newly industrialized countries and transition economies. For firms operating in developing and least-developed countries, IP protection is an insignificant determinant of technology licensing. In addition, the results show that firm characteristics such as size, foreign ownership, and sales composition are strong predictors of technology licensing status.","PeriodicalId":103805,"journal":{"name":"Innovation & Organizational Behavior eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129555671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Use of Stated Preferences to Forecast Alternative Fuel Vehicles Market Diffusion: Comparisons with Other Methods and Proposal for a Synthetic Utility Function","authors":"Jérôme Massiani","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2275756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2275756","url":null,"abstract":"Stated Preferences are, together with Bass diffusion and, to a lesser extent, Total Cost of Ownership, the most popular methods to forecast the future diffusion of electric and alternative fuel vehicles. In this contribution, we compare the merits and limitations of SP relative to other methods. We also review the empirical results provided by SP surveys and assess their validity for modeling market diffusion. We also propose a meta-analysis-based Synthetic Utility Function that consolidates results across various studies and can be used, for simulation purpose, in a Discrete Choice Model context. Such an approach makes the simulation results less dependent of single surveys� idiosyncrasies, and hence is helpful for the formulation of robust policy recommendations.","PeriodicalId":103805,"journal":{"name":"Innovation & Organizational Behavior eJournal","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115492273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Value Creation in Innovations Crowdsourcing: Example of Creative Agencies","authors":"Andrius Agafonovas, Raimonda Alonderienė","doi":"10.15388/OMEE.2013.4.1.14260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15388/OMEE.2013.4.1.14260","url":null,"abstract":"Innovations are crucial for most of the companies to survive. However, the concept of innovation has become broader, including new forms of open innovation, such as crowdsourcing. The aim of this paper is to define the business model of a crowdsourcing-driven organization to create value. Empirical research consists of case studies on current crowdsourcing platforms, focus groups with potential crowd members and in-depth interviews with potential customers of creative agencies. Best practices were combined with solutions for closing the most significant gaps in order to create a successful business model. The developed model suggests separating the crowd into free users and an empowered core team and enabling collaboration. Moreover, an innovative motivational model is introduced. Due to a three-step sequence of solution/idea generation, superior value is proposed to the customer. Another competitive advantage should be flexibility and adaptability to the customer’s needs. The paper is original since extended analysis of all crowdsourcing stakeholders is delivered. It also has practical value proposing a business model for creative agencies.","PeriodicalId":103805,"journal":{"name":"Innovation & Organizational Behavior eJournal","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120996905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}