Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
About the Book Series
This innovative series explores the role of innovation and innovation management and technological advances from an organizational perspective. This series brings together theories from a wide range of individual disciplines and examines both the internal understanding and management and also an external, shareholder perspective. Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology (RIOT!) features cutting -edge research addressing all the major issues in business and management today, helping to define and advance the field.
Public Sector Transformation through E-Government: Experiences from Europe and North America
1st Edition
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By Vishanth Weerakkody, Christopher G. Reddick
May 31, 2017
Over the last decade governments in Europe and North America have attempted to improve efficiency of public services through Information and Communication Technology, commonly branded as electronic government (e-government). Public Sector Transformation through E-Government explores the influence ...
The Entrepreneurial University: Context and Institutional Change
1st Edition
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By Lene Foss, David Gibson
April 10, 2017
Global recessions and structural economic shifts are motivating government and business leaders worldwide to increasingly look to "their" universities to stimulate regional development and to contribute to national competiveness. The challenge is clear and the question is pressing: How will ...
The New Production of Users: Changing Innovation Collectives and Involvement Strategies
1st Edition
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By Sampsa Hyysalo, Torben Elgaard Jensen, Nelly Oudshoorn
November 03, 2016
Behind the steady stream of new products, technologies, systems and services in our modern societies there is prolonged and complicated battle around the role of users. How should designers get to know the users’ interests and needs? Who should speak for the users? How may designers collaborate ...
Creativity Research: An Inter-Disciplinary and Multi-Disciplinary Research Handbook
1st Edition
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By Eric Shiu
August 03, 2016
Compared to its ‘cousin’ innovation, academic research on creativity has been less well covered in journals and books. This is despite the fact that creativity has a profound role in many different subject disciplines. This book is a unique collection of some of the latest research from&...
Marketing Technologies: Corporate Cultures and Technological Change
1st Edition
By Elena Simakova
August 03, 2016
Global corporations initiate, join and maintain socio-technological change and hence, alter the ways in which we organize our lives. Demanding significant investment of resources and time, the development and implementation of new technologies on different levels must take into consideration these ...
Digital Virtual Consumption
1st Edition
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By Mike Molesworth, Janice Denegri Knott
July 27, 2016
Digital media present opportunities for new types of consumption including desiring, buying, collecting, making, and even selling digital virtual goods. To these activities we can add those taking place in virtual communities of consumption, online shops, brand websites, and online auction houses ...
Management and Information Technology: Challenges for the Modern Organization
1st Edition
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By Peter Ekman, Peter Dahlin
July 27, 2016
Information technology has come to play an important role in organizations over the last few decades. Though it began as an entity dealt with by specialists, IT has evolved to become an everyday tool with both operational and strategic impacts. Most modern organizations have adopted different forms...
Creativity and Leadership in Science, Technology, and Innovation
1st Edition
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By Sven Hemlin, Carl Martin Allwood, Ben Martin, Michael D. Mumford
July 15, 2016
Leadership is vital to creativity and successful innovation in groups and organizations; leadership is however seldom studied in the academic literature as a creativity driver. One reason for the lack of attention paid to leadership’s effect on creativity may be the common belief that creativity ...
Innovation in the U.S. Service Sector
1st Edition
By Michael P. Gallaher, Albert N. Link, Jeffrey E. Petrusa
February 29, 2016
Using a cutting-edge structure, where a current description of the service sector and up-to-date case studies are compared and contrasted with innovative activity in manufacturing, this book contributes towards a better theoretical understanding of innovation in the U.S. service sector. The U.S. ...
Organization in Open Source Communities: At the Crossroads of the Gift and Market Economies
1st Edition
By Evangelia Berdou
January 20, 2016
This book contributes new insights into the organization of free/open source (F/OS) software communities by examining the links between learning, division of labour and commercialization, demonstrating the need for a synthesis of work on both community organization and cooperation to understand F/...
User-Innovation: Barriers to Democratization and IP Licensing
1st Edition
By Viktor Braun, Cornelius Herstatt
January 20, 2016
Economic growth is highly dependent on technological progress and innovation, yet the sources from which these innovations originate are still largely misunderstood and untapped. Recent research has demonstrated that users, rather than manufacturers, are often a critical source of innovation in ...
Innovation Policy Challenges for the 21st Century
1st Edition
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By Deborah Cox, John Rigby
September 03, 2015
As the economies of western countries move from primarily resource-based to knowledge-based, and trade liberalization limits what governments can do through direct action, the landscape of innovation is changing and policymakers must react accordingly. This exciting new book examines the challenges...