{"title":"Using Simulation to Study, Design and Invent Organizations","authors":"R. Levitt","doi":"10.7146/JOD.7016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/JOD.7016","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past 50 years, computational modeling and simulation have had enormous impact on the advancement of knowledge in fields such as physics, chemistry, and subsequently, biology. After simulation models had been validated in these fields, they were rapidly adopted as powerful new tools to enhance and extend engineering practice. Might social science and management practice be following a similar trajectory? This article argues that progressively validated, calibrated, and refined computational simulation models of organizations are rapidly evolving into: (a) powerful new kinds of organizational analysis tools to support organization design by predicting the performance of specific organizational configurations for a given task and environment; (b) flexible new kinds of organizational theorem provers for validating extant organization theory and developing new theory; and (c) organizational test benches that can be used to explore the efficacy of hypothetical organizational configurations that can address the unprecedented demands of new and emerging work processes in the presence of high levels of uncertainty and ambiguity.","PeriodicalId":105021,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Operations (Topic)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123368744","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 Role of Management Accounting and Control Systems as Antecedents of Organizational Creativity and Innovation Capabilities","authors":"Ricardo Malagueño, J. Bisbe","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1720989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1720989","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the extent to which the use of Management Accounting and Control Systems influence the development of organizational capabilities in the innovation setting. More specifically, this research exams the cultural, interactive and diagnostic control systems in firms that follow conservative and entrepreneurial strategies, to test their effects as antecedents of organizational creativity and capabilities that could explain to some extent the ability of an organization to convert invention into product innovation. Using survey data collected from 124 medium and large Spanish companies, we find evidence supporting the interchangeable role of interactive and cultural forms of control to developed different capabilities as companies pursue different strategies.","PeriodicalId":105021,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Operations (Topic)","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133066570","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":"An Information Systems Design Theory for an RFID University-Based Laboratory","authors":"S. Fosso Wamba, K. Michael","doi":"10.22459/isf.12.2010.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/isf.12.2010.11","url":null,"abstract":"RFID technology is defined as a wireless automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) technology and is considered as \"the next big thing\" in the management and \"the next revolution in supply chain\". Recently, the topic has attracted the interest of the industrial community as well as the scientific community. Following this tendency, this paper applies an Information Systems Design Theory (ISDT) for an RFID-based University Laboratory. For practitioners, the paper provides some insights into the set-up and use of RFID laboratory in university settings, and at the same time, it offers a set of hypotheses that can be empirically tested.","PeriodicalId":105021,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Operations (Topic)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132772685","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":"RFID Chips: Enabling the Efficient Exchange of Information","authors":"S. Heng","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1339543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1339543","url":null,"abstract":"More and more companies are using RFID radio chip technology to boost their competitiveness. Yet RFID not only enhances the efficiency of the company deploying it. It also promotes innovativeness in the economy as a whole. Nevertheless, not every RFID project driven by a technological vision will necessarily become a commercial success for the user. In any event, though, RFID will enable producers to tap sizeable potential. Considering the host of potential application areas – particularly in production, the distributive trade and the transport industry – RFID turnover is likely to increase. With the shift in market shares for individual RFID components and the exodus of production of less sophisticated products from the high-wage countries, Asia is poised to become the continent with the highest turnover.","PeriodicalId":105021,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Operations (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120936778","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":"Collaborative E-Commerce: Shaping the Future of Partnerships in the Healthcare Industry","authors":"Robert E. Spekman, A. Harahsheh","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.910093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.910093","url":null,"abstract":"This case provides insight into the dynamics of the pharmaceutical industry and offers one view of the changing business model in the industry. What was once a vertically integrated business model for the large drug manufacturers has now been supplanted by contract manufacturers and other intermediaries that have changed the nature of competition. Cardinal has become far more than a drug wholesaler, and this case attempts to shed light on the range of services it can offer to increase its share of the overall value chain: from drug discovery to FDA trials and approval to marketing and sales of the drugs.","PeriodicalId":105021,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Operations (Topic)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131533066","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":"Contract Theory: Implications for Biopharmaceutical Alliance Structure and Performance","authors":"Niyazi Taneri, A. De Meyer","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2269381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2269381","url":null,"abstract":"Alliances for new product development have been studied extensively in the operations management literature. Alliances between an innovator and a partner create value by utilizing their complementary capabilities. In this paper, we seek to understand what drives the alliance structure: The choice between collaborative alliances where the parties exert joint efforts and sequential alliances where, for the most part, the partner takes over going forward. Our analysis of a dataset of over 2000 biopharmaceutical alliances reveals our main finding: A key role of operations is to address contract theoretic concerns faced by an alliance. We also find that aligning the choice with predictions based on contract theory has consequences for performance. Therefore, our analysis not only has descriptive power about the drivers of alliance choice but also provides valuable insight into the performance and eventual fate of alliances formed.","PeriodicalId":105021,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Operations (Topic)","volume":"447 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115956419","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":"Absorptive Capacity and Its Role for the Company Growth and Competitive Advantage: The Case of Frauenthal Automotive Toruń Company","authors":"Andrzey Lis, A. Sudolska","doi":"10.7341/20151143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7341/20151143","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the paper is to study the role of absorptive capacity for the company growth and competitive advantage through open innovations. The case of Frauenthal Automotive Torun is used to explore how the routines and best practices associated with the firm absorptive capacity contribute to its success. The case study is to validate the thesis that through developing skills to recognize valuable knowledge in the environment, acquire this knowledge, assimilate, transform and develop it companies are able to apply and benefit from open innovations in order to grow and strengthen their competitive advantages. In order to achieve the aim of the paper the following research objectives have been set: (1) to identify the lessons and best practices applied in Frauenthal Automotive Torun in relation to the company absorptive capacity; (2) to analyze the relationships between the concepts of absorptive capacity and open innovation; (3) to exemplify and discuss the outcomes of the company absorptive capacity in regard to innovations, company growth and competitive advantage.","PeriodicalId":105021,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Operations (Topic)","volume":"131 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131957389","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":"My Disruptive Innovation: Introduction","authors":"D. Kyeyune","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3736983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3736983","url":null,"abstract":"The term disruptive innovation was coined by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen in his seminal and path-breaking works to refer to “to “a process by which a product or service takes root in simple applications at the bottom of the market and then relentlessly moves up market, eventually displacing established competitors”. Due to diffusing from low end upward to high-end (also known as low-end encroachment) and because disruption is a process that takes time, incumbents often overlook disrupters (Glen & Cheryl, 2008). Forbes 2015 list of the 25 most disruptive brands also include Airbnb, Facebook, Red Bull, Snapchat, Alibaba, Netflix, Under Amour, Uber, Apple, Instagram, CVS, Taylor Swift, Google, Warby Parker, Chipotle, 72and Sunn,y, SoulCycle, Rent the Runway, Houzz, Waze, DraftKings, Coke, Eataly, Birchbox and Virgin America. Some characteristics to differentiate disruptors from innovators include: All disruptors are innovators but not all innovators are disruptors; innovators are rational whereas disruptors are irrational but still require organization in order to be a success.","PeriodicalId":105021,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Operations (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123920872","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}