Nowadays competing in unforgiving and dynamic markets requires fostering innovative cultures that continuously actualize the fit between the changing requirements of demanding customers and the organization's offering and capabilities.In a clear move towards this direction, many large companies have started implementing programs aimed at building innovation as a broad and sustainable competence installed in their DNA. As organizational cultures have to do with all organizational members, a shared characteristic of many innovation initiatives is involving and reaching people at every corner of the organization. Using a cognitive perspective and a rich database, this paper explores how structural aspects influence the way in which employees perceive innovation building initiatives. Results show that there are relevant perception gaps among both functional areas and hierarchical levels, and that there is a widespread skepticism regarding the future of these initiatives.

Nowadays competing in unforgiving and dynamic markets requires fostering innovative cultures that continuously update the fit between the changing requirements of demanding customers and organizations' offering and capabilities. In a clear move towards this direction, many large companies have started implementing programs aimed at building innovation as a broad and sustainable capability installed in their DNA. Given that incorporating innovation into organizational cultures involves all organizational members, a shared challenge of many innovation initiatives is reaching and including people at every corner of the organization. This exploratory study aims to contribute to a better understanding of how factors at the individual, organizational, and environmental levels influence the way employees evaluate innovation initiatives. Results from the analysis of a sizable database show that the factors examined in this study explain a large proportion of the variability found, that there are relevant differences among both functional areas and hierarchical levels, and also suggest that there are both synergetic and moderating interactions between factors. The results reported here add to the increasing literature on innovation management and provide insights into the design and implementation of Innovation Management Systems that take into account factors that influence the way in which organizational members perceive and respond to innovation initiatives.

In a world of organizations that are in constant change scholars have long sought to understand and explain how they change. This book introduces research methods that are specifically designed to support the development and evaluation of organizational process theories. The authors are a group of highly regarded experts who have been doing collaborative research on change and development for many years.

Innovation contributes to corporate competitiveness, economic performance and environmental sustainability. In the Internet era, innovation intelligence is transferred across borders and languages at an unprecedented rate, yet the ability to benefit from it seems to become more divergent among different corporations and countries. How much an organization can benefit from innovation largely depends on how well innovation is managed in it. Thus, there is a discernible increase in interest in the study of innovation management. This handbook provides a comprehensive guide to this subject. The handbook introduces the basic framework of innovation and innovation management. It also presents innovation management from the perspectives of strategy, organization and resource, as well as institution and culture. The book’s comprehensive coverage on all areas of innovation management makes this a very useful reference for anyone interested in the subject.

"This book examines current research in support of knowledge management by focusing on how knowledge resources can be used to create and sustain competitive advantages, combining imitation and innovation theories"--Provided by publisher.

This book provides a roadmap for successful implementation of innovation for organizations working as subcontractors or suppliers for the federal government. With a focus on the federal sector, it details tools and processes that can make significant improvements in how the federal sector handles innovation opportunities. Presenting insights that can help readers bridge the gap between supplier and customer, the book includes many examples and a case study that illustrate the application of the methodology. It also includes process flowcharts, tools, and strategies for innovation within an agency or organization.

Business practices in emerging markets are constantly challenged by the dynamic environments that involve stakeholders. This increases the interconnectedness and collaboration as well as spillover effect among business agents, that may increase or hold back economic stability. This phenomenon is captured in this proceedings volume, a collection of selected papers of the 10th ICBMR 2016 Conference, held October 25—27, 2016 in Lombok, Indonesia. This ICBMR’s theme was Enhancing Business Stability through Collaboration, and the contributions discuss theories, conceptual frameworks and empirical evidence of current issues in the areas of Business, Management, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Islamic Economics, and competitiveness. All topics include aspects of multidisciplinarity and complexity of safety in research and education.