TY - BOOK AU - Al-Hakim,Latif AU - Jin,Chen ED - IGI eBooks. ED - IGI Global. TI - Innovative in business and enterprise: technologies and frameworks SN - 9781615206445 (PDF) AV - HD2351 .I556 2010e U1 - 658.4/063 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Hershey, Pa. PB - IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA) KW - Business enterprises KW - Technological innovations KW - Corporate social responsibility KW - Diffusion of innovation (DOI) theory KW - Entrepreneurship competences and management capabilities needed for innovation KW - Factors and dimensions of national innovation capacity KW - Impact of market and entrepreneurial orientations on the innovation decision KW - Innovation in cumulative causation theory KW - Performance evaluation framework for innovation KW - Role of intellectual (IC) capital in innovation processes KW - Social aspects of innovation KW - User involvement in new product development KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Cumulative causation as explanatory theory for innovation / Geoff Bamberry -- 2. Lowering the center of gravity around enterprise IT / Amy Hutchins, Brian Goodman, John Rooney -- 3. Are the pre-diffusion phases shortening? / J. Ortt -- 4. Links between innovation, change and learning in Chinese companies / Wei Sun, Ruth Alas -- 5. What makes companies to be more innovative and profitable? / Ana P�erez-Lu�no, Ram�on Valle-Cabrera, Johan Wiklund -- 6. Usage of ICT tools in new product development / Kristina Jespersen, Nuka Buck -- 7. Factors and dimensions of national innovative capacity / Maria Nat�ario, Jo�ao Couto, Maria Borges Tiago, Ascens�ao Braga -- 8. Entrepreneurship competencies and management capabilities for innovation and sustainable growth / Maktoba Omar, Michael Lewrick -- 9. Building a radical innovation mechanism at large firms / Chintan Shah, J. Ortt, Victor Scholten -- 10. A performance evaluation framework for innovation / Stefan Cedergren, Anders Wall, Christer Norstr�om -- 11. The impact of labour flexibility and HRM on innovation / Haibo Zhou, Ronald Dekker, Alfred Kleinknecht -- 12. Harnessing knowledge for innovation in social enterprises / Eric Kong -- 13. Factors Predicting the Innovation Climate / �Ulle �Ubius, Ruth Alas -- 14. Advancing the potential of diversity for innovation / Nancy Erbe -- 15. Managing corporate social responsibility as an innovation in China / Maria Lam -- 16. Study of SME innovation in two Queensland industries / David Thorpe, Steven Goh -- 17. Innovation system linkages in Indian hydrocarbon sector / Prashant Dhodapkar, Anup Gogoi, Medhi Agadh -- 18. Nanotechnology innovation systems / Nazrul Islam; Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers; Also available in print N2 - "The focus of the book is on managing innovation through bridging gaps created from theories, relative advantages or competitiveness, social differences, and innovation capability and performance"--Provided by publisher UR - http://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-61520-643-8 ER -