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Book Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management

Download or read book Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management written by David J. Teece and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2009 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do firms grow? How do firms compete? An influential answer to these fundamental questions of business strategy lies in the concept of dynamic capabilities. David Teece provides a clear statement of his ideas, and a framework for managers wishing to assess their organization's strategy.

Book Innovation Capabilities  Affirming an Oxymoron

Download or read book Innovation Capabilities Affirming an Oxymoron written by Tor Helge Aas and published by Cognitione Foundation for the Dissemination of Knowledge and Science. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between resources and capabilities and performance has been discussed since Edith Penrose addressed the mechanisms behind the growth of the firm (Penrose, 1959). Early contributions to this area of research suggest that valuable and inimitable resources and capabilities are the primary sources of superior performance and sustained competitive advantage (Barney, 1991; Wernerfelt, 1984), while more recent contributions suggest that the ability to change and re-configure resources and capabilities (dynamic capabilities) are the most important for performance, especially when the market is unstable (Teece, 2014; Teece, Pisano & Shuen, 1997). It has also been argued that firms may utilize their resources and capabilities through the development of innovations in the form of new products, services or processes (Hill, Brandeau, Truelove & Lineback, 2015), and empirical research has confirmed that there is a positive relationship between the implementation of innovation activities and the future performance of firms (Bowen, Rostami & Steel, 2010; Rubera & Kirca, 2012). However, innovation as a phenomenon entails change, as opposed to resources and capabilities that represents a firm’s ability to reproduce a certain performance – and as such involves stability. Viewed in this way the very term innovation capability can constitute an oxymoron. The study of innovation capabilities is therefore a complex field of study that is emerging. The topic has already attracted interest from a number of scholars (e.g. Forsman, 2011; Guan & Ma, 2003; Hertog, van der Aa & de Jong, 2010; Wang, Lu & Chen, 2008; Yam, Lo, Tang & Lau, 2011), but despite these important advances there is still a lack of consensus in the literature and a pressing need to clarify what type of resources and capabilities drive innovation in different contexts (Lidija & Robert, 2014), and how these capabilities are developed and utilized (Helfat & Peteraf, 2003).

Book Innovation Capabilities and Economic Development in Open Economies

Download or read book Innovation Capabilities and Economic Development in Open Economies written by Vanessa Casadella and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-10-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The innovation capacity-building can contribute to improve the integration of developing countries in the world economy. The economic development has been a much discussed subject of the period after the Second World War until the 1990s. After the implementation of a global regulation system for trade and capital flows in the 1990s, the development economics has almost disappeared in favor of different theories on globalization, on finance and on international trade. The purpose of this book is to show that the innovation capacity building in developing countries is necessary to improve their weight in the world economy and to facilitate their economic ties with northern countries. However, there are important difficulties due to the lack of proactive economic policies. Our aim is to contribute to the revival of the development economics. The issue of improving the well-being of the world population as a whole is highly topical. However, studies neglect the need to give economic, financial, technological and political resources to developing countries to promote their own development. One of the most important means is to strengthen their innovation capabilities that allow them to better integrate into the world economy.

Book Innovation Capabilities and Entrepreneurial Opportunities of Smart Working

Download or read book Innovation Capabilities and Entrepreneurial Opportunities of Smart Working written by Orlando, Beatrice and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-11-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of Smart Working (SW) and Distance Learning (DL), leading to concerns about their overall effectiveness despite initial efficiency. Limited research on the positive and negative effects of these practices has left decision-makers ill-equipped to navigate their complexities. To address this knowledge gap, Innovation Capabilities and Entrepreneurial Opportunities of Smart Working, edited by Beatrice Orlando from the University of Ferrara, Italy, provides a comprehensive resource to explore the multifaceted effects of SW and DL. The book covers topics such as efficiency, effectiveness, knowledge management, individual impact, and broader social, economic, and business implications, equipping both academic scholars and practitioners with the necessary knowledge to understand and leverage SW and DL effectively. It empowers decision-makers to make informed choices, develop innovative strategies, and maximize benefits while mitigating potential negative effects. By offering a comprehensive examination of the present and future impact of SW and DL, Innovation Capabilities and Entrepreneurial Opportunities of Smart Working emerges as an indispensable solution. The book enables scholars to contribute groundbreaking research and assists practitioners in making informed decisions that will shape the future of work and learning in the digital age. With its fresh insights and evidence-based research, it equips readers to navigate the complexities of SW and DL, driving meaningful change and fostering innovation in organizations and educational institutions.

Book Building Innovation Capabilities for Sustainable Industrialisation

Download or read book Building Innovation Capabilities for Sustainable Industrialisation written by Rasmus Lema and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that renewable electrification in developing countries provides important opportunities for local economic development, but new pathways are required for turning these opportunities into successful reality. Building Innovation Capabilities for Sustainable Industrialisation offers a novel input into the debate on development of capabilities for sustainable industrialisation and delivers key insights for both researchers and policy makers when it comes to the question of how to increase the economic co-benefits of renewables expansion. The chapters in the book use a tailored analytical framework in their studies of renewable electrification efforts in Kenya and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa. They draw on a mix of project, sector and country level case studies to address questions such as: What capabilities are developed through on-going renewable electrification projects in developing economies? How can the expansion of renewable electrification be supported in a way that also encourages sustainable economic development? What role do international linkages (South-South and North-South) play and what role should they play in the greening of energy systems in developing economies? The authors provide a new understanding of how green transformation and sustainable industrialisation can be combined, highlighting the opportunities and constraints for local capability building and the scope for local policy action. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of development studies, energy studies, sustainability and sustainable development, as well as practitioners and policy makers working in development organisations and national governments. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003054665, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Book Creative Construction

Download or read book Creative Construction written by Gary P. Pisano and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This myth-busting book shows large companies can construct a strategy, system, and culture of innovation that creates sustained growth. Every company wants to grow, and the most proven way is through innovation. The conventional wisdom is that only disruptive, nimble startups can innovate; once a business gets bigger and more complex corporate arteriosclerosis sets in. Gary Pisano's remarkable research conducted over three decades, and his extraordinary on-the ground experience with big companies and fast-growing ones that have moved beyond the start-up stage, provides new thinking about how the scale of bigger companies can be leveraged for advantage in innovation. He begins with the simply reality that bigger companies are, well, different. Demanding that they "be like Uber" is no more realistic than commanding your dog to speak French. Bigger companies are complex. They need to sustain revenue streams from existing businesses, and deal with Wall Street's demands. These organizations require a different set of management practices and approaches--a discipline focused on the strategies, systems and culture for taking their companies to the next level. Big can be beautiful, but it requires creative construction by leaders to avoid the creative destruction that is all-too-often the fate of too many.

Book Strategic Management in the Innovation Economy

Download or read book Strategic Management in the Innovation Economy written by Thomas H. Davenport and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-06-27 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative ruptures of traditional boundaries in value chains are requiring companies to rethink how they go to market, what they need to own, what they need to retain and innovate as core competencies, and how they innovatively deal with suppliers and customers. The key message of the book is that the new knowledge-networked innovation economy requires a totally different strategic management mindset, approach and toolbox, and its major value-added is a new strategic management approach and toolbox for the innovation economy - a poised strategy approach. Designed for both managers and advanced business students, the book provides a unique combination of new management theory, selected managerial articles by prominent scholars such as Clayton Christensen, Henry Chesbrough, Sumantra Ghoshal, Quinn Mills, and Peter Senge, and a wide array of real-world case examples including GE, Shell, IBM, HP, BRL Hardy, P&G, Southwest Airlines and McGraw-Hill, within the dynamics of industries such as airlines, energy, telecommunications, wine & beverages, and computing. The authors illustrate powerful new strategic innovation concepts and tools, such as poised strategy for managing multiple business models, poised strategy scorecards (moving beyond the well-known balanced scorecard), the wheel of business model reinvention, and organizational rejuvenation methods. The book includes the concepts of: Poised Strategic Management, Organizational Rejuvenation, Business Models as Platform for Strategy, Poised Scorecards, Identifying Sources of Innovation in Business Ecosystems.

Book Building Innovation Capability in Organizations

Download or read book Building Innovation Capability in Organizations written by Mile Terziovski and published by Imperial College Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global competition, shorter product lifecycles and increasingly demanding customers are creating significant pressures for the creation of innovative organizations. By examining eight case studies in various industry sectors in Europe, Australia, Japan and Thailand, this book provides a qualitative explanation of the complex relationships between innovation capability, e-commerce, sustainable development and new product development. The book explores how organizations develop innovation capability through the application of e-commerce, sustainable development-orientation, and new product development in order to gain competitive advantage. This knowledge will help managers, academics and policy-makers understand OC what works, and why and how it worksOCO in creating innovation-driven organizations from an international perspective, thereby providing an integrated approach to innovation management. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Introduction (84 KB). Contents: Development of an Integrated Innovation Capability Model; Strategic Shift from Product Orientation to Innovation Solutions Capability in the German Biotechnology Industry: Sartorius AG; Managing Strategic Change Through Mainstream and Newstream Innovation at Eurocopter, France; Leveraging Innovation Capabilities at Caterpillar Underground Mining (UGM) Pty Ltd; Drivers of Innovation Capability at Sun Microsystems (SMS); Development and Exploitation of Innovation Capability at a Defence Project Engineering Company (DPEC); Drivers of Innovation Capability for Effective Sustainable Development: Best Practice at Vaisala; Developing Innovation Capability Through Intellectual Property Strategy in the Australian Biotechnology Industry: Starpharma; Development of Innovation Capability at Invincible Company in Thailand; Multiple Cross-Case Analysis: Conclusions and Implications. Readership: Managers, academic lecturers, and management researchers; as a supplementary textbook for undergraduates and postgraduates in innovation and technology management."

Book OECD Public Governance Reviews Innovation Skills in the Public Sector Building Capabilities in Chile

Download or read book OECD Public Governance Reviews Innovation Skills in the Public Sector Building Capabilities in Chile written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report, the first of its kind on an OECD country, assesses the abilities, motivations and opportunities in Chile’s public service for contributing to innovation, and provides recommendations on how to further develop them.

Book Innovation Systems and Capabilities in Developing Regions

Download or read book Innovation Systems and Capabilities in Developing Regions written by Willie Siyanbola and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's knowledge-driven world, innovation and innovation systems have become key policy issues. However, the extent of knowledge that is available on these concepts in less developed countries is still relatively low. Much of what we know about innovation theory and systems has come from the developed countries and reflects their world view. This apparent knowledge deficit has major implications for less developed countries. Innovation Systems and Capabilities in Developing Regions adds to the growing body of knowledge on developing countries. The theoretical and empirical case studies presented here advance the notion that, while developing countries may not engage in frontier research, a critical knowledge base upon which these countries compete for global markets is emerging. There is evidence that state and non-state actors are increasingly emphasising policies that sit within the framework of national innovation systems. This book illuminates this shift in policy competence at national levels. The contributions in this volume highlight the need for thorough understanding of the role of diffusion-based innovation linked to technology transfer and acquisition. They also provide empirical evidence on the drivers, dynamics and impact of such innovation in developing economies and the constraints that apply. Contributors also document the application of the innovation system approach in developing countries as well as the build-up and diffusion of technological capabilities within innovation systems. Academics, higher level students, policy makers and practitioners involved with innovation and the economics of technical change, particularly in developing countries, will find this a valuable book.

Book Innovative Capabilities and the Globalization of Chinese Firms

Download or read book Innovative Capabilities and the Globalization of Chinese Firms written by Maureen McKelvey and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how Chinese firms are increasingly developing innovative capabilities and engaging in globalization. It focuses on knowledge-intensive and innovative entrepreneurial firms and multinationals, which already are – or are striving to become – world-leaders in their technologies and markets, and which do so by their use of advanced knowledge for innovation as well as their ability to act globally. The book advances related debates in entrepreneurship, innovation management, economic geography and international business.

Book Managing Global Innovation

Download or read book Managing Global Innovation written by Yves L. Doz and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The key to bridging your global innovation gap In today’s global economy, it would be short-sighted to rely solely on local resources for new-product innovations. Instead, knowledge and activity critical to innovation most likely lie outside your company’s home territories—sometimes far outside. And this distance makes it harder than ever to obtain and integrate these resources, eating away at your competitive edge. How to tackle this challenge? In Managing Global Innovation, INSEAD’s Yves L. Doz and Keeley Wilson show you how to build and leverage a global innovation network. Drawing on extensive research and real-life company examples, they walk you through a set of practical frameworks for acquiring and integrating innovation-critical knowledge from multiple sources. You’ll learn to optimize your innovation footprint, improve communication and receptivity, and enhance collaboration in order to succeed on a global scale. Based on in-depth research within more than three dozen corporations—including Citibank, Essilor, GE, GlaxoSmithKline, HP Labs, HP Singapore, Nokia, Novartis, Shiseido, Siemens, Snecma, Synopsys, and Xerox—this book bridges theory and practice. Managing Global Innovation gives you the tools to harness critical expertise from around the globe—and channel it into your innovation programs.

Book Re Building University Capabilities

Download or read book Re Building University Capabilities written by Maribel Guerrero and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although most universities could be considered bureaucrat organizations, the accumulated knowledge reveals that universities try to adapt their core activities and technological innovation processes to face the current socio-economic challenges. This book explores the ways in which universities have re-built multiple capabilities to support the development of applied innovation and manage new technologies. Concretely, this book (1) theoretically addresses the university managers’ view for re-building university capabilities due to the public policy agendas demands; and (2) empirically addresses the documentation of experiences and strategies adopted by universities in different contexts to achieve public policy agendas. These universities strategies include re-build entrepreneurial, innovative, digital, and sustainable capabilities. This book encourages researchers, scholars, academics, students and policy makers to re-think how universities are expanding equal opportunities related to high-quality higher education, innovative/entrepreneurial graduate options, and contributing to sustainable societal advance and well-being through research and community engagement.

Book Innovation Performance and Clusters

Download or read book Innovation Performance and Clusters written by Nicole Röttmer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While a strong research base on cluster assets exists, evidence on other factors such as capabilities, i.e. a local culture or networks, is anecdotal and dispersed across research streams. Nicole Röttmer sets out to identify and describe these capabilities, their impact on cluster innovativeness in the interplay with (proprietary) cluster resources and their development over time in a comprehensive model.

Book Training  performance and dynamic capabilities  New insights from absorptive  innovative  adaptative and learning capacities

Download or read book Training performance and dynamic capabilities New insights from absorptive innovative adaptative and learning capacities written by Juan Moreno-Garcia and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Collaborative Innovation

Download or read book Collaborative Innovation written by Mitsuru Kodama and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the development of the aging society and the increased importance of emergency risk management in recent years, a large number of medical care challenges - advancing medical treatments, care & support, pharmacological treatments, greater health awareness, emergency treatments, telemedical treatment and care, the introduction of electronic charts, and rising costs - are emerging as social issues throughout the whole world. Hospitals and other medical institutions must develop and maintain superior management to achieve systems that can provide better medical care, welfare and health while enabling "support innovation." Key medical care, welfare and health industries play a crucial role in this, but also of importance are management innovation models that enable "collaborative innovation" by closely linking diverse fields such as ICT, energy, electric equipment, machinery and transport. Looking across different industries, Collaborative Innovation offers new knowledge and insights on the extraordinary value and increasing necessity of collaboration across different organizations in improving the health and lives of people. It breaks new ground with its research theme of building "health support ecosystems," focusing on protecting people through collaborative innovation. This book opens up new, wide-ranging interdisciplinary academic research domains combining the humanities with science across various areas including general business administration, economics, information technology, medical informatics and drug information science.

Book Technological Innovation and International Competitiveness for Business Growth

Download or read book Technological Innovation and International Competitiveness for Business Growth written by João J. M. Ferreira and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how companies combine technological innovation and competitive actions that create new opportunities for business growth in the international market. The complexity of designing today’s technology platforms requires profound knowledge in multiple areas. Technology development and commercialization as an ongoing competitive process involves enabling and inhibiting mechanisms, which govern the speed and acceleration of technological innovation. To compete more effectively, potential competitors are using coopetition and pooling their resources for shared gain in areas where they do not compete directly. Thus, a thorough examination of the current paradigms, theories, and frameworks is needed to increase our understanding of the technology-innovation-competitiveness linkages of business growth. This book brings together recent developments and methodological contributions within technological innovation, international competitiveness, and business growth that bridge the existing gaps and simultaneously advances the debate on this research topic.