Information technology support for the knowledge and social processes of innovation management

Adamides, Emmanuel D.; Karacapilidis, Nikos

doi:10.1016/j.technovation.2004.07.019

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“…Flexible and flat organizational structures improve innovativeness and make idea generation and communication more open. In addition, flexible organizational structures and a supportive organizational culture create better communication throughout the company and can generate more innovative, creative, and committed employees at all organizational levels (Adamides & Karacapilidis, 2004;Jacobsen, Hofman-Bang, & Nordby, 2005;Oikarinen, 2008;Schein, 1999;Wan, Ong, & Lee, 2005).…”

Section: Creativity In Fuzzy Front-end Innovation Processesmentioning

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Boosting Creativity with Transformational Leadership in Fuzzy Front-end Innovation Processes

Hyypiä

Parjanen

2013

IJIKM

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One of the contemporary demands in organizations is the need to create new knowledge and innovations. The purpose of this study is to clarify how creativity for the fuzzy front-end innovation processes can be supported by transformational leadership. In addition, the study aims at recognizing (a) challenges that organizations confront at the beginning of innovation processes and (b) what characters of transformational leadership are emphasized as well as how leaders should react during these challenging processes. The qualitative data used in this study is a partial case study from a wider action research-based development project, which aims at revealing the hidden innovation potential at different levels of an organization. Creativity and innovation are essential parts of development processes. This study contributes to the current literature on search strategies in relation to transformational leadership (TL) by extending the understanding of how to support employees' creativity and involve employees in discovering new innovation opportunities. In addition, this study suggests that TL's characteristics can be shared positively in practice as well as be performed simultaneously in the same organization development process by different leaders.

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Section: Creativity In Fuzzy Front-end Innovation Processesmentioning

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Boosting Creativity with Transformational Leadership in Fuzzy Front-end Innovation Processes

Hyypiä

Parjanen

2013

IJIKM

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“…There is some literature that finds a positive correlation between the use of knowledge management practices and innovation: e.g. Darroch (2005) Furthermore, there are a few studies, based on theoretical considerations, case studies or use cases, which analyse the employment of information technology in knowl-edge management and collaboration and its relation to innovation and product development (see for instance Adamides and Karacapilidis 2006, Christensen, Magnusson, and Zetherstrom 2006, Sethi, Pant, and Sethi 2003. There is some case study evidence on the adoption of social software, mainly wikis and blogs, in the knowledge management of several firms (e.g.…”

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Does Social Software Support Service Innovation?

Meyer

2009

SSRN Journal

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Recent Internet technologies and web-based applications, such as social software, are being increasingly applied in firms. Social software can be employed for knowledge management and for external communication enabling access to internal and external knowledge. Knowledge in turn constitutes one of the main inputs to service innovation. Hence, social software has the potential to support service innovation. Using data from 505 German Information-and Communication Technology (ICT)and knowledge-intensive service firms, this is the first paper which empirically analyses the question whether the use of social software applications triggers innovation. Thereby, it refers to a knowledge production function in which social software use constitutes the knowledge sourcing activity. The results reveal that there is a positive relationship between social software and service innovation. Since this result is robust when controlling for former innovative activities and the previous propensity to adopt new technologies and to change processes, the analysis suggests that the causality runs from social software to innovation. JEL-classification: O31, O33, M10

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“…The 'knowledge-based view' can be a useful framework to study firm innovations (Castro, Lo´pez-Sa´ez, & Delgado-Verde, 2011;Dı´az-Dı´az, Aguiar-Dı´az, & DeSaa´-Pe´rez, 2008). This is because the innovation process is considered the most knowledge-intensive business process (Adamides & Karacapilidis, 2006;Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995) and knowledge assets contribute to improving the innovative capacity of an organization (Lerro, 2012;Subramaniam & Youndt, 2005;Teece, 2000Teece, , 2007.…”

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Knowledge Creation, Innovation and Financial Performance of Firms: Evidence from Vietnam

Nguyen

Phan

Nguyen

2016

IJBM

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Drawing on the knowledge-based perspective and Nonaka's theory of knowledge creation, this study proposes a model linking firms' knowledge creation, innovation, and financial performance. The model is tested in a sample of 529 Vietnamese firms. The results show that firms' knowledge creation has significant impacts on three out of four types of innovation, including product innovation, organizational innovation, and marketing innovation. Product innovation is also found to contribute significantly to the firm's financial performance. The results improve our understanding of innovation at the firm level under institutional uncertainty and resource-deficiency and provide some important implications for managers and policy makers.

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Information technology support for the knowledge and social processes of innovation management

Cited by 135 publications

References 23 publications

Boosting Creativity with Transformational Leadership in Fuzzy Front-end Innovation Processes

Boosting Creativity with Transformational Leadership in Fuzzy Front-end Innovation Processes

Does Social Software Support Service Innovation?

Knowledge Creation, Innovation and Financial Performance of Firms: Evidence from Vietnam

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