Organizational Innovation: The Influence of Individual, Organizational, and Contextual Factors on Hospital Adoption of Technological and Administrative Innovations.

Defining the Concept of Innovation and Firm Innovativeness: A Critical Analysis from Resorce-Based View Perspective

“…Afuah (1998) suggested innovation is the "use of new technical and administrative knowledge to offer a new product or service to customers". Thus, many authors concluded that innovation is "any practices that are new to organizations, including equipments, products, services, processes, policies and projects" (Damanpour, 1991;Kimberly & Evanisko, 1981;Lin, 2007). Khazanchi, Lewis, and Boyer (2007) also extended the conclusion where they said that innovation is one of major relevance for companies, as it can be the source of additional revenues from new products or services, can help to save costs or improve the quality of existing processes.…”

“…There are several ways which managers may implement initially in order to present their commitment to the innovativeness development. But somehow, the adoption of organizational or administrative innovation is influenced by some factors including organization's culture, structure and climate (Kimberly & Evanisko, 1981;Lin, 2006;Panayides, 2006). Additionally, product innovation reflects changes in the end product or service offered by the organization, while process innovation represents changes in the way firms produce end products or services (Cooper, 1998;Utterback, 1996).…”

“…Furthermore, all of these innovations have been proven as a catalyst for operational efficiency and effectiveness as supported by literature since so many years ago. As noted by Lin (2007), the most important tool for enterprises to keep being competitive is by adopting these technological innovations (Kimberly & Evanisko, 1981;Damanpour & Evan, 1984).…”

Innovation and Digital Marketing Adoption in Mexican Small Business

“…These relations could be labelled as innovating since they use new technologies provided by the innovation in technologies of information and communication (TICs) and offer knowledge and its transfer, create more dynamic relations and enhance the assets of companies (Amin, 1999;Cooke, 1996;seen in Braun, 2002). Accordingly, the literature emphasizes that innovations benefit not only the ones that adopt them by providing competitive advantages, functional differentiation, administrative intensity as well as internal and external communication (Baldrige & Burnham, 1975;Kimberly & Evanisko, 1981;Hull & Hage, 1982;Damanpour, 1987;Abrahamson & Rosenkopf, 1993;Mahajan & Balasubramanian, 2003), but they are also updated regarding their competitors, an imperative need for any executive. Furthermore, it is mentioned that the trend of being part of the virtual world that, according to Wu, Mahajan, & Balasubramanian (2003), was a guideline promoted by enterprises that want to innovate constantly.…”

Knowledge Management in Collaborative Manufacturing Food Companies Performances: Twin Impacts of Learning and Innovation

“…As widely reflected in the literature, the effect of size of a company is positive both on performance and innovation, since the biggest ones normally allocate more resources to be invested in innovation (Kimberly & Evanisko, 1981). Furthermore, size is usually considered as a control variable in the studies relating to OI (Damanpour & Schneider, 2006;Laforet, 2008;McDermott & Prajogo, 2012) and OP (Hmieleski, Cole & Baron, www.ccsenet.org/mas Modern Applied Science Vol.…”