Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
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Innovation Policy Challenges for the 21st Century
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
As the economies of western countries move from primarily resource-based to knowledge-based, and trade liberalization limits what governments can do through direct action, the landscape of innovation is changing and policymakers must react accordingly. This exciting new book examines the challenges...
Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
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Marketing Technologies
Corporate Cultures and Technological Change
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
Global corporations initiate, join and maintain socio-technological change and hence, alter the ways in which we organize our lives. Demanding significant investment of resources and time, the development and implementation of new technologies on different levels must take into consideration these...
Published August 21st 2012 by Routledge
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Public Sector Transformation through E-Government
Experiences from Europe and North America
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
Over the last decade governments in Europe and North America have attempted to improve efficiency of public services through Information and Communication Technology, commonly branded as electronic government (e-government). Public Sector Transformation through E-Government explores the influence...
Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
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The Video Game Industry
Formation, Present State, and Future
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
The Video Game Industry provides a platform for the research on the video game industry to draw a coherent and informative picture of this industry. Previously this has been done sparsely through conference papers, research articles, and popular science books. Although the study of this industry is...
Published July 16th 2012 by Routledge
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Managing Organizational Ecologies
Space, Management, and Organizations
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
The term Facilities Management has become global but fraught with confusion as to what the term signifies. For some, notably in the USA, Facilities Management remains a discipline of human ecology. Elsewhere the term has become conflated with an alternative meaning: providing or outsourcing the...
Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
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Digital Virtual Consumption
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
Digital media present opportunities for new types of consumption including desiring, buying, collecting, making, and even selling digital virtual goods. To these activities we can add those taking place in virtual communities of consumption, online shops, brand websites, and online auction houses...
Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
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Management and Information Technology
Challenges for the Modern Organization
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
Information technology has come to play an important role in organizations over the last few decades. Though it began as an entity dealt with by specialists, IT has evolved to become an everyday tool with both operational and strategic impacts. Most modern organizations have adopted different forms...
Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
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Managing Networks of Creativity
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
The aim of the Managing Networks of Creativity is to improve our understanding of creativity and the management of creativity, as discussed in the fields of management (including strategic management, organization science, organizational behaviour, and entrepreneurship), economics, sociology,...
Published September 22nd 2011 by Routledge
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Managing Environmentally Sustainable Innovation
Insights from the Construction Industry
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
A paradigm shift is happening at this moment. Firms and consumers are aware of the fact that they cause environmental pollution, depletion of resources and are responsible for the dangers involved. At the same time awareness is growing that they need to and will develop the appropriate solutions in...
Published April 5th 2011 by Routledge
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Theory and Practice of the Triple Helix Model in Developing Countries
Issues and Challenges
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
Theory and Practice of Triple Helix Model in Developing Countries contributes to the expanding literature on "triple helix" innovation - focusing on developing countries. The book is based on practical cases and experiences from Africa, Latin America and Asia. Relevant experiences and best...
Published January 23rd 2011 by Routledge
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Creativity and Innovation in Business and Beyond
Social Science Perspectives and Policy Implications
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
In many modern economies, creativity, the essential prerequisite for innovation, tends to be assumed or neglected while the catchphrase "innovation" dominates the field of business as the key to national performance and competitiveness. Creativity and Innovation in Business and Beyond illustrates...
Published December 20th 2010 by Routledge
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Global Innovation in Emerging Economies
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
In recent decades, there have been significant changes in the way corporate innovation activities are performed. They include changes in the innovation process, flexibility to outsource certain innovation activities, and by far, the most important one, wider choice in the location of innovation....
Published December 20th 2010 by Routledge
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Organization in Open Source Communities
At the Crossroads of the Gift and Market Economies
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
This book contributes new insights into the organization of free/open source (F/OS) software communities by examining the links between learning, division of labour and commercialization, demonstrating the need for a synthesis of work on both community organization and cooperation to understand F/...
Published August 24th 2010 by Routledge
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Working on Innovation
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
Since the mid-1980s, the development of competitive strategies based on intensive innovation has deeply transformed the design of new products and services. Much has been written about new methods and organizations that are likely to develop economically competitive and creative capacities in...
Published August 2nd 2009 by Routledge
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User-Innovation
Barriers to Democratization and IP Licensing
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
Economic growth is highly dependent on technological progress and innovation, yet the sources from which these innovations originate are still largely misunderstood and untapped. Recent research has demonstrated that users, rather than manufacturers, are often a critical source of innovation in...
Published March 31st 2009 by Routledge
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Organisational Capital
Modelling, Measuring and Contextualising
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
There is much debate as to how companies carry out their activities in the context of new information and communication technologies influencing organizations to decentralize and develop new managerial practises including outsourcing and networking. Recent theories have emphasized the importance of...
Published December 3rd 2008 by Routledge
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Energizing Management Through Innovation and Entrepreneurship
European Research and Practice
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
This book provides an in-depth understanding of key variables that play a significant role at the various stages of the innovation process, leading to successful commercialisation of products and services. Combining interdisciplinary studies in entrepreneurship and innovation, the book consists of...
Published September 3rd 2008 by Routledge
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Innovating for Sustainability
Green Entrepreneurship in Personal Mobility
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
One of the challenges met by green entrepreneurs and product developers who have tried to develop more sustainable products is that efforts to have better products in environmental terms do not always translate into effective business cases. The purpose of this book is a better understanding of the...
Published September 2nd 2008 by Routledge
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Mobility and Technology in the Workplace
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
The contemporary period has witnessed the rapid evolution in a wide range of mobile technology. This book charts the profound implications these technological changes have for workers and business organizations. From an organizational point of view they have the potential to transform the nature of...
Published July 13th 2008 by Routledge
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Industrial Innovation in Japan
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
In this new book, Hara, Kambayashi and Matsushima gather together a collection of case studies of innovation in various industries in modern Japan, including automobile, electronics, semiconductor, component, chemical, pharmaceutical and service industries. Unlike other books in this area,...
Published March 30th 2008 by Routledge
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Managing and Marketing Radical Innovations
Marketing New Technology
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
This book responds to a growing demand in the academic community for a focus on customer-related proactive behaviour in the study of radical innovation development, combining a thorough theoretical discussion with detailed international case studies considering the role of this proactivity in five...
Published February 6th 2008 by Routledge
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Knowledge and Innovation
A Comparative Study of the USA, the UK and Japan
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
This new book presents case studies from the US, the UK and Japan. Packed full of vignettes from cases studies and subscribing to a socio-cultural approach rather than the often tacit assumption that knowledge and ‘technology transfer’ is a logistical problem, this excellent volume illuminates the...
Published October 24th 2007 by Routledge
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Knowledge and Innovation in Business and Industry
The Importance of Using Others
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
Provocative and reflective, this volume on the notion of knowledge and innovation in the business industry provides readers with a holistic approach to the subject of ‘knowledge’. Structuring their arguments around four case studies of innovation within four entirely different contexts, Håkansson...
Published May 13th 2007 by Routledge
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Innovations and Institutions
An Institutional Perspective on the Innovative Efforts of Banks and Insurance Companies
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
Using institutional theory to explain innovation and merging academic and critical analysis with practical recommendations, this book provides a full and rich account of how new products are brought to market; considering both the successes and failures in equal measure. This book takes the meeting...
Published March 7th 2007 by Routledge
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The Innovative Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy in an Age of Fluidity
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
Highly original and based on unique empirical research in the fields of organization theory and organization behaviour, this work makes an invaluable contribution to the literature on bureaucracy and innovation. Focusing on a study of two major companies working with innovation and new product...
Published January 31st 2007 by Routledge
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Information and Communications Technologies in Society
E-Living in a Digital Europe
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
There is a growing body of work examining the ‘consequences’, or more accurately the inter-relationships between information and communications technologies (ICTs) and society at the microsocial (individual, household) level. The vast majority of this work has so far been focused on the US and the...
Published December 20th 2006 by Routledge
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Innovation in the U.S. Service Sector
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
Using a cutting-edge structure, where a current description of the service sector and up-to-date case studies are compared and contrasted with innovative activity in manufacturing, this book contributes towards a better theoretical understanding of innovation in the U.S. service sector. The U.S....
Published August 23rd 2006 by Routledge