An extensive array of changes and innovations have taken place in and across work organizations and networks of organizations and workers, facilitated by new technologies and technological forms. This has initiated an interest in technological change as one of the conditions for organizational action and researchers have begun to draw inspiration from a wider spectrum of conceptual issues, perspectives and theoretical traditions. This book is interested in both what is occurring at the level of praxis and how this might be understood and theorized. It brings together a comprehensive...
An extensive array of changes and innovations have taken place in and across work organizations and networks of organizations and workers, facilitated...
Innovation is almost always seen as a "good thing." Challenging the Innovation Paradigm is a critical analysis of the innovation frenzy and contemporary innovation research. The one-sided focus on desirable effects of innovation misses many opportunities to reduce the undesirable consequences. Authors in this book show how systemic effects outside the innovating firms reduce the net benefits of innovation for individual employees, customers, as well as for society as a whole - also the innovators' own organizations.
This book analyzes the dominant discourses that construct and...
Innovation is almost always seen as a "good thing." Challenging the Innovation Paradigm is a critical analysis of the innovation frenzy and contemp...
Social Inclusion and Usability of Innovative ICT-enabled Services is a cutting-edge research book written for researchers, students, academics, technology experts, activists and policy makers. The book explores a wide range of issues concerning innovative ICT-enabled digital services, their usability and their consequent role in social inclusion, It includes the impacts of the use of ICT-enabled digital services on individuals, organisations, governments and society, and offers a theoretically informed and empirically rich account of the socio-technical, management and policy...
Social Inclusion and Usability of Innovative ICT-enabled Services is a cutting-edge research book written for researchers, students, acade...
Research on patent valuation has become increasingly important in academic and policy circles in the last few decades. In part, this is the outcome of the wide consensus that innovation is a crucial ingredient for growth at various levels. On the other hand, there has also been an overcoming of growth models unilaterally focused on technological-oriented approaches. This book presents novel and original research on patent value determinants, which are intrinsic or extrinsic to the innovator's business model.
Grid Thoma has undertaken a long study on the strategic factors affecting...
Research on patent valuation has become increasingly important in academic and policy circles in the last few decades. In part, this is the outcome...
In recent decades, the world has witnessed, unprecedented in terms of speed and geographic coverage, diffusion of new information and communication technologies (ICT). The on-going digital revolution pervasively impacts and reshapes societies and economies and therefore deserves special attention and interest.
This book provides extensive evidence on information and communication technologies development patterns and dynamics of this process across developed economies over the period 1980 to the present day. It adopts newly developed methodology to identification of the 'critical...
In recent decades, the world has witnessed, unprecedented in terms of speed and geographic coverage, diffusion of new information and communication...
