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Interpreting Innovation Dynamics with Complexity Theory
September 5, 2014 Editor 0
International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management, Ahead of Print. Capturing and understanding innovation dynamics is a continuous challenge due to the difficulty of collecting process data and because it often involves multiple levels and units of analysis. Interest has been increasingly focused on applying complexity theory in explaining temporal and nonlinear characteristics of innovation […]
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The Embarrassment of Complexity
October 11, 2013 Editor 0
Roger Martin recently diagnosed a kind of complexity that is manufactured by us and largely unaddressed: inter-domain complexity. It comes about as fields of knowledge are segmented into multiple domains, and each domain develops deep algorithmic knowledge and specialized tools that work by ignoring many of the variables actually in play. Martin notes that the difficulty of […]
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Intellectual Capital in the Caribbean Hospitality Industry: Two Case Studies
September 24, 2012 Editor 0
This paper explores the relevance and awareness of IC in two hotel chains in the Caribbean.
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Supporting creativity through knowledge integration during the creative processes. A management control system perspective
September 24, 2012 Editor 0
Organizations require an intensive knowledge integration mechanism that supports creativity within all the phases of its process in order to analyze, understand, select, and integrate ideas into a business model. Management Control Systems, as a part of t he structural capital, can be utilized as knowledge integration mechanisms to provide: i) a dialog among internal or external actors of the creative process; ii) a knowledge repository for data and other information required in the selecting process; ii i) representation of the new ideas into a business model. Using a multi-method case study, this article analyzes the role of knowledge integration played by Management Control Systems (MCS).
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