Search results for "innovativeness"

A job resources-based intervention to boost work engagement and team innovativeness during organizational restructuring

2018

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effectiveness of a job resources-based intervention aimed at proactively increasing work engagement and team innovativeness during organizational restructuring using a person-centered approach. Design/methodology/approach The intervention was conducted in two organizations: two departments served as participants (n=82) and two as controls (n=52). The aim was to first identify sub-groups of employees with different developmental patterns of work engagement, and then to determine whether these sub-groups benefited differently from the intervention with respect to team innovativeness and work engagement. Findings Latent profile analysis …

Clinicians' assessment of mobile monitoring: a comparative study in Japan and Spain.

2013

Background: The gradual but steady shift toward telemedicine during the past decades is a clear response to important health problems that most industrialized countries have been facing. The growing elderly population and changing dietary habits have led to an increase in people with chronic diseases and overall health care expenditures. As more consumers use their mobile device as their preferred information and communication technology (ICT) device, mobile health monitoring has been receiving increasing attention in recent years. Objective: This study examines clinicians’ perception of factors determining mobile health monitoring acceptance in Japan and Spain. The study proposes a causal …

Inter-organizational networks and innovation in small, knowledge-intensive firms: A literature review

2013

Published version of article from the journal: International Journal of Innovation Management In this study, we address the effect of innovation strategy and an innovative working climate on financial performance in the Norwegian wood industry. Innovation strategy embodies four dimensions: the degrees to which innovation in the form of products, processes, and business systems are embedded in the management values and priorities as well as the degree of expenditure in R&D. An innovative working climate is exemplified by team cohesion, supervisory encouragement, resources, autonomy, challenge, and openness to innovation. Previous studies have indicated a lack of research in traditional manuf…

Understanding franchisee performance : The role of the franchisee’s autonomy, affective commitment to the network and innovativeness

2018

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of participative franchising on performance from the franchisee perspective. In particular, the paper analyses the impact of the franchisee autonomy – in human resource management and marketing decisions – affective commitment to the network and network innovativeness on the franchisee relative performance. Design/methodology/approach A survey answered by 226 franchisees in France allowed to estimate a structural equations model through partial least squares regression analysis to test the hypothesised relations between autonomy, affective commitment, innovativeness and performance. Findings According to the authors’ findings, …

Influence of online shopping information dependency and innovativeness on internet shopping adoption

2008

PurposeThe paper's purpose is to analyse the influence of online shopping information dependency and innovativeness on the acceptance of internet shopping.Design/methodology/approachThe impact of online shopping information dependency, domain‐specific innovativeness and technology acceptance model (TAM) variables on future shopping intention has been tested through structural equation modelling techniques. The sample consisted of 465 Spanish consumers who had never purchased online.FindingsData analysis shows that consumer innovativeness and online shopping information dependency have a direct and positive influence on future online shopping intention and that the basic TAM hypotheses are f…

Reflections on the advent of a more enterprising culture in Finland : an exploratory study

2001

Rozwój regionalny w ujęciu komparatywnym - na przykładzie Dolnego Śląska, Opolszczyzny i Górnego Śląska. Poziom rozwoju – analiza wybranych aspektów

2015

Artykuł zawiera analizę porównawczą poziomu rozwoju trzech polskich województw: dolnośląskiego, opolskiego i śląskiego. Za pomocą opracowanego miernika rozwoju regionalnego, autor analizuje cztery główne komponenty rozwoju – gospodarka, konkurencyjność i innowacje, kapitał ludzki, kapitał społeczny i jakość życia. Autor stawia tezę, że województwo najlepiej rozwinięte gospodarczo osiąga pozytywne wyniki także na pozostałych płaszczyznach analizy. Badania rozwoju regionalnego powinny być zatem wieloczynnikowe, gdyż proces ten związany jest nie tylko z gospodarką, ale wpływa również na sferę społeczną (np. warunki życia ludności) czy polityczną (konieczność prowadzenia polityki regionalnej uw…

Determinanty innowacyjności nauczycieli

2016

Innowacyjne podejście do realizacji zadań w pracy nauczyciela, podobnie jak w każdym innym zawodzie, jest istotnym czynnikiem podnoszenia jakości i atrakcyjności oddziaływań. Badania przeprowadzone w 2015 roku na grupie 308 nauczycieli pozwalają na poznanie głównych czynników decydujących o innowacyjnym podejściu nauczycieli w codziennej pracy. Należą do nich kompetencje pedagogiczne i merytoryczne, stawiane cele, klimat pracy w gronie nauczycielskim, polityka oświatowa, ogólna atmosfera społeczna. Badani nauczyciele wykazują się bardzo wysokim ogólnym poziomem przygotowania w zakładzie kształcenia nauczycieli, szczególnie z zakresie nauczanego przedmiotu 49,02% ocenia swoje przygotowanie j…

Innovation dynamics in space. Local actors and local factors

1997

This paper addresses the issue of technogenesis and its geographical pattern. It aims to offer both a general analysis framework and a test on innovation data from several European cities. This framework is mainly built on the product life-cycle and the incubation approach. On the basis of this framework, it is argued that the phases of an industrial life-cycle have several firm-specific effects. First, these phases influence innovativeness and thus profit levels, output and employment of firms in a spatially distinct way. Second, the phases of the life-cycle mirror the importance of local factors for innovations, and third, they affect strategic decisions of firms, inter alia by influencin…

Virtues for innovativeness : a mixed methods study of ethical organisational culture and organisational innovativeness

2016

Artikkeliväitöskirja. Sisältää yhteenveto-osan ja neljä artikkelia. Article dissertation. Contains an introduction part and five articles. This study examined ethical organisational culture, consisting of ethical organisational virtues, and organisational innovativeness. More specifically, the study explored the relationship between the phenomena. Ethical organisational culture was studied using Corporate Ethical Virtues (CEV) model, which is based on the virtue theory of business ethics. This research makes a contribution to prior research on ethical organisational culture by linking the concept of organisational innovativeness (OIN) to it. The overall goal of this study was to increase th…