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.
Managing Networks of Creativity
1st Edition
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By Fiorenza Belussi, UDO HERMANN STABER
September 03, 2015
The aim of the Managing Networks of Creativity is to improve our understanding of creativity and the management of creativity, as discussed in the fields of management (including strategic management, organization science, organizational behaviour, and entrepreneurship), economics, sociology, ...
Energizing Management Through Innovation and Entrepreneurship: European Research and Practice
1st Edition
By Milé Terziovski
March 31, 2015
This book provides an in-depth understanding of key variables that play a significant role at the various stages of the innovation process, leading to successful commercialisation of products and services. Combining interdisciplinary studies in entrepreneurship and innovation, the book consists of ...
Mobility and Technology in the Workplace
1st Edition
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By Donald Hislop
March 31, 2015
The contemporary period has witnessed the rapid evolution in a wide range of mobile technology. This book charts the profound implications these technological changes have for workers and business organizations. From an organizational point of view they have the potential to transform the nature of...
Working on Innovation
1st Edition
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By Christophe Midler, Guy Minguet, Monique Vervaeke
August 12, 2014
Since the mid-1980s, the development of competitive strategies based on intensive innovation has deeply transformed the design of new products and services. Much has been written about new methods and organizations that are likely to develop economically competitive and creative capacities in ...
The Video Game Industry: Formation, Present State, and Future
1st Edition
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By Peter Zackariasson, Timothy Wilson
May 30, 2014
The Video Game Industry provides a platform for the research on the video game industry to draw a coherent and informative picture of this industry. Previously this has been done sparsely through conference papers, research articles, and popular science books. Although the study of this industry is...
Organisational Capital: Modelling, Measuring and Contextualising
1st Edition
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By Ahmed Bounfour
May 16, 2014
There is much debate as to how companies carry out their activities in the context of new information and communication technologies influencing organizations to decentralize and develop new managerial practises including outsourcing and networking. Recent theories have emphasized the importance of...
The Innovative Bureaucracy: Bureaucracy in an Age of Fluidity
1st Edition
By Alexander Styhre
October 10, 2012
Highly original and based on unique empirical research in the fields of organization theory and organization behaviour, this work makes an invaluable contribution to the literature on bureaucracy and innovation. Focusing on a study of two major companies working with innovation and new product ...
Information and Communications Technologies in Society: E-Living in a Digital Europe
1st Edition
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By Ben Anderson, Malcolm Brynin, Yoel Raban, Jonathan Gershuny
September 18, 2012
There is a growing body of work examining the ‘consequences’, or more accurately the inter-relationships between information and communications technologies (ICTs) and society at the microsocial (individual, household) level. The vast majority of this work has so far been focused on the US and the ...
Innovating for Sustainability: Green Entrepreneurship in Personal Mobility
1st Edition
By Luca Berchicci
September 18, 2012
One of the challenges met by green entrepreneurs and product developers who have tried to develop more sustainable products is that efforts to have better products in environmental terms do not always translate into effective business cases. The purpose of this book is a better understanding of the...
Creativity and Innovation in Business and Beyond: Social Science Perspectives and Policy Implications
1st Edition
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By Leon Mann, Janet Chan
July 27, 2012
In many modern economies, creativity, the essential prerequisite for innovation, tends to be assumed or neglected while the catchphrase "innovation" dominates the field of business as the key to national performance and competitiveness. Creativity and Innovation in Business and Beyond illustrates ...
Innovations and Institutions: An Institutional Perspective on the Innovative Efforts of Banks and Insurance Companies
1st Edition
By Patrick Vermeulen, Jorg Raab
June 13, 2012
Using institutional theory to explain innovation and merging academic and critical analysis with practical recommendations, this book provides a full and rich account of how new products are brought to market; considering both the successes and failures in equal measure. This book takes the meeting...
Knowledge and Innovation: A Comparative Study of the USA, the UK and Japan
1st Edition
By Helen Brown
June 13, 2012
This new book presents case studies from the US, the UK and Japan. Packed full of vignettes from cases studies and subscribing to a socio-cultural approach rather than the often tacit assumption that knowledge and ‘technology transfer’ is a logistical problem, this excellent volume illuminates the ...