Exploring the Relevance of Intrapreneurship and Innovation in Mature Organizations

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-42
Author(s):  
Fernando Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Process ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Electronic Components ◽  
Inhibiting Factors ◽  
Mature Organizations ◽  
Traditional Industry ◽  
Industry Sectors ◽  
Innovation Processes ◽  
Reduced Time

This study intends to explore the phenomenon of intrapreneurship and the relevance of the innovation processes in mature organizations by conducting three case studies on traditional industry sectors such as the textile, metalworking, and electronic components sector. The aim is to explore the role of entrepreneurial teams in such companies, to understand the inhibiting factors of innovation, and to find the essential conditions for these organizations to continuously innovate and promote intrapreneurship within their organizations. The findings reveal that several factors constrain employee participation in this process, including lack of qualifications levels, limited resources, corporate bureaucracy, and reduced time and budget. In the conditions necessary to support the innovation process emerge the support given by the management team, the qualification of individuals and teams, and the existence of an organizational culture that promotes communication, collaboration, and tolerance to risk.

scholarly journals Emotional strategizing in service innovation

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catharina von Koskull ◽  
Tore Strandvik ◽  
Bård Tronvoll
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Strategy Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Innovation Processes ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Shed Light

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to shed light on an aspect of service innovation processes that has remained fairly hidden so far, namely, the role of emotions. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use the strategizing approach from strategy research, which focusses on detailed processes, practices, and discourse, to understand the influence of emotions on service innovation processes. The empirical data stem from a longitudinal ethnographic study of a service innovation process. Findings – In the investigated case, the dominant emotion of anxiety is revealed. The authors focus on this emotion in order to explore how it affects the innovation process itself and the outcome. The authors identify five emotion-driven practices that form elements of what the authors label emotional strategizing. Practical implications – Emotion seems to give energy and direction to the service innovation process. This is both positive and challenging for top-level managers. Originality/value – The authors reveal a hidden aspect of service innovation processes – the effect of emotions. Furthermore, the authors show that emotions are important because they give energy and direction to the innovation work, and emerge in practices. Emotional strategizing, as a new term, gives visibility to this important issue.

scholarly journals ІННОВАЦІЇ ЯК СКЛАДОВА ФАКТОРІВ ВПЛИВУ НА СТАБІЛЬНИЙ РОЗВИТОК СУЧАСНОГО ПІДПРИЄМСТВА

2019 ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
Є. В. Луцишина
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Innovative Development ◽  
Innovative Strategy ◽  
Innovation Project ◽  
Innovation Processes ◽  
Stable Development

Orientating to the innovative development and economic growth, provided by them, nowadays allows enterprises to achieve competitive advantages not only in the production and sale of products (projects, services), but above all in the methods of business development. The theory of innovative development in the economy, which is one of the main economic doctrines of modern times for a large number of countries in the world, is now only being formed in Ukraineand is in the stage of active development. Considering the features and problems of the innovation processes of domestic enterprises, there is a need to further develop their competitiveness for domestic and external markets. The purpose of the article is to develop the theoretical and methodological foundations in the field of enterprise development based on innovation, as well as to determine the role of innovation to ensure the stable development of the enterprise. The object of the study is the formation of an innovative strategy of the enterprise and its components for the implementation of an innovative project. Methods used in the research are a systematic approach, a method of generalization, comparison. The hypothesis of research is that innovation plays an important role in ensuring the stable development of the enterprise. The statement of basic materials. It is determined that innovative development is a consequence of innovative processes occurring in the enterprise. In its innovative development, enterprises go through a number of stages: research, development and implementation. The main properties of innovation are scientific novelty, practical applicability and commercial feasibility. The method of forming a strategy for the introduction of innovation, types of improvement of the competitiveness of the enterprise, stages and components of the innovation process are all considered, as well as factors that may affect the formation and outcome of the investment and innovation project. Originality and practical significance of the research. The article gives an idea of the role of innovation for a modern enterprise and helps to determine the main guidelines for the development and implementation of innovative solutions. The author reflects on the most important properties of economic innovation processes, which enables us to significantly distinguish them from other business processes. Conclusions of research. It was concluded that in the conditions of the modern economic environment, innovation for an enterprise is a necessary condition for survival.  However, by introducing innovations, managers of all levels are faced with the problem of uncertainty of new factors that have a significant impact on the progress of the innovation process and on the activity of the enterprise as a whole. The research results can be used in the development of strategies for the implementation of the innovation process in an enterprise of any form of organization.

THE ROLE OF INNOVATION METRICS IN INNOVATION SYSTEMS

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (03) ◽  
pp. 2050025
Author(s):  
CHRISTINA ÖBERG
Keyword(s):  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Innovation Systems ◽  
Science Parks ◽  
Strongly Connected ◽  
Venture Firms ◽  
Innovation Processes ◽  
Innovation Metrics

In innovation systems, venture firms, incubators and science parks may interact with universities to achieve commercialisable output. These various parties are connected to different guiding performance metrics — measures on each party’s performance — that influence their behaviours. This paper illustrates and discusses the role of performance metrics among various parties in innovation systems connected with early research ideas from universities. The empirical part of the paper is based on interviews with 20 researchers and 10 representatives of various innovation system organisations in an EU-based research project. The paper points out how parties in the innovation process saw different reasons to participate which were strongly connected with how each party was evaluated and which caused sub-optimisation in behaviours. Previous research on innovation systems has not focused on the rationales and behaviours of parties. The focus on metrics targets an important point for understanding innovation processes involving several parties and specifically doing so for support organisations that cannot be measured on revenues or profits.

Could Knowledge, Learning, and Innovation Gaps be Spiralling?

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fawzy Soliman
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Cumulative Effect ◽  
Learning Organisation ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Evolutionary Innovation ◽  
Innovation Processes ◽  
Innovation Chain

The role of human resources management (HRM) in creating a climate for innovation and learning is presented. The innovation processes innovation chains are shown to be evolutionary. Innovation chain activities include transformation into knowledge-based, then into a learning organisation, and finally, into innovative enterprises. This chapter also shows that during the innovation process, HRM has significant and critical roles in addressing two types of organisational defects, Learning Gaps and Innovation Gaps. The innovation chain may be a spiral chain, suggesting that there could be a cumulative effect on the strength of the gaps due to the spiral nature of the innovation chain.

scholarly journals The algorithm to ensure and implement the strategy of the effective management of innovation processes

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 436-440
Author(s):  
M. S. Asmolova ◽  
S. V. Dedov
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
State Planning ◽  
Innovation Infrastructure ◽  
Direct Government ◽  
Innovation Processes

We considered the implementation of the effective management strategy of the innovation process from the point of view of its integration and existing problems. We have marked the role of priorities that explain the interrelation of the levels of the state planning and the innovation processes management of socio-economic systems. We have shown the substantive part of the strategic planning and the role of the tools ensuring the achievement of goals and objectives of innovation processes. We have summarized the content of the strategic planning. The research results of the tools role determined the conditions of the innovation infrastructure formation and the list of its components. We used the following tools for the analysis: direct government influence; unity of monetary and fiscal policies; consolidated revenue policy; reforming of the conditions, the traditions and the practices of interaction between the banking and real sectors of the national economy. We applied a retrospective approach during the analysis of the innovation infrastructure algorithm. The authors made the correction of the analysis using the concept of national innovation systems (NIS). We made the conclusions based on the author’s point of view due to the lack of a generalized definition and the methodology of the NIS in the academic literature. We proposed a lineal algorithm that provides and implements the strategy of managing the innovation processes, as well as the tools. We highlighted the factors that prevent the problems in the formation of an effective management, and we have also pointed out that it is necessary to take into account the specific conditions of the country, its trends and challenges. Based on the analysis, we named the additional features to trace the management problems. We suggested the measures to ensure the greatest effectiveness of the implementation of the effective management strategy from the standpoint of mentality and timeliness. The author's algorithm has been justified as the most feasible in the modern conditions, revealing the existing interrelations between the subjects of the innovation process.

The role of accounting for managing innovation processes when relationships matter

IMP Journal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johnny Lind
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Stability And Instability ◽  
Software Release ◽  
Innovation Processes

Purpose This paper studies how accounting information is used by actors in an innovation process. It investigates how accounting information influences and is influenced by the different actors. The purpose of this paper is to develop a more thorough understanding of the role of accounting in making the choices that form temporary solutions. Design/methodology/approach An in-depth case study of the development of a standard software release within the telecom industry. Findings This study has shown that accounting was a key ingredient when temporary solutions were formed in the innovation processes. Actors used accounting to stabilize the content of the release in the formation of the gate documents and used accounting to destabilize the content between the temporary solutions. It is difficult to evaluate whether the use of accounting improved or harmed the innovation. Further, the study also revealed that the use of accounting influenced and was influenced by previous and prospective future deals. This put new challenges on the use of accounting because it involved negotiation processes that influenced the accounting figures. Practical implications The findings provide insights into the procedures for finding temporary solutions in the innovation process and the role of accounting in these procedures. Originality/value This paper contributes by providing a more thorough understanding of the role of accounting regarding the choices that comprise the temporary solutions within the innovation process. In addition, it shows how accounting has a critical role both for settling on and modifying temporary solutions. Hence, the research demonstrated how studies of the role of accounting in innovation processes can contribute to the industrial network approach by giving a more thorough understanding of network dynamics and the process of attaining stability and instability in business networks.

The importance of human resources to the innovative capacity of portuguese firms

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armando Silva
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Community Innovation Survey ◽  
Innovative Process ◽  
Qualified Personnel ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
Innovation Capacity ◽  
Innovative Capacity ◽  
Training Of Personnel

In this study I test the importance of several Human Resource variables to the innovation capacity of portuguese firms but also the effects that the innovation process generates on Human Resources. A branch of the innovation literature states that the ability of firms to innovate relies on an innovative capacity, which, in turn, depends on several factors, both internal and external to enterprises. One of those factors is the effort of firms to train their personnel specifically in order to enable them to innovate. The present test is applied to 4818 Portuguese enterprises for the period 2002-2004 through the use of the fourth Community Innovation Survey data. In order to evaluate the contribution of Human Resources to innovation I have estimated several knowledge Production Functions, mainly using probits and tobits. In that framework it is assumed that innovation depends on some inputs (as the training of personnel) and on information-flows from the existing knowledge stock (as clients). I have found significant the role of personnel training for the innovative process of Portuguese firms. Moreover, I also found that the lack of qualified personnel hinged critically more innovative performance of firms and, in addition, it is noticed that the improvement of productivuty (cost reduction) was the main effect of innovation in Portuguese firms.

The role of digital artefacts in early stages of distributed innovation processes

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (10) ◽  
pp. 104349
Author(s):  
Markus C. Becker ◽  
Francesco Rullani ◽  
Francesco Zirpoli
Keyword(s):  
Early Stages ◽  
Innovation Processes

THE ADOPTION OF IT BY SMEs: THE DUTCH CASE

2001 ◽  
Vol 09 (01) ◽  
pp. 129-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAN H. M. STROEKEN
Keyword(s):  
Process Innovation ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Small Companies ◽  
Horizontal Integration ◽  
Strategic Vision ◽  
Competitive Strength ◽  
Role Of It ◽  
Innovation Processes

IT has become a major source of innovation, innovation that is crucial for the competitive strength of enterprises. This applies to large as well as to small enterprises. Small companies that follow technological trends are, however, confronted with a number of specific constraints that impede the application of IT. The aim of this article is to show that there are plenty of opportunities for SMEs to stimulate innovation by the implementation of IT. The second aim is to make clear what are the bottlenecks in the implementation of IT in SMEs, with the ultimate goal to formulate policy recommendations to stimulate the introduction of IT in SMEs. The structure of this article is as follows. First, we will sketch the role of IT in innovation processes. The introduction of IT first of all leads to process innovation (internal and external), followed by product innovation in the sense of more diverse, cheaper and customer specific products. Process innovation can best be described in terms of standardisation, differentiation, specialisation and (vertical and horizontal) integration. Subsequently, we will discuss the empirical results of several reports we made for the Dutch Council for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (RMK). We will make an inventory of the bottlenecks that occur during the innovation processes and the implementation of the required IT. The problem is that small enterprises often lack the necessary knowledge of the innovative possibilities of IT or find it difficult to apply it in practice. The latter is usually the case when there are considerable organisational consequences or when strategic vision is required with respect to the possible uses of IT. Finally, we will make a number of policy related recommendations.

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