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Lo, Amadou. "Le développement de l’ambidextrie contextuelle à l’aide d’un outil de gestion : étude de cas exploratoire du Fab Lab interne chez Renault." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LYO30064/document.
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Cette thèse a pour objectif de mieux comprendre et d’accompagner les stratégies d’innovation des entreprises face aux défis liés à l’intensification de la dynamique et des changements de l’environnement économique. Or, afin de survivre à ces rythmes économiques, la littérature préconise aux organisations de concilier leurs activités d’exploitation et leurs activités d’exploration de façon concomitante. Dans ce cadre, notre travail étudie spécifiquement une stratégie d’innovation conférant une importance particulière aux initiatives des individus dans les activités d’exploration : l’ambidextrie contextuelle. Simultanément, notre recherche examine un objet de recherche jusque là inédit dans le milieu académique : le Fab Lab d’entreprise (ou Fab Lab interne). A la croisée des chemins de ces deux sujets, cette thèse pose la question du développement de l’ambidextrie contextuelle à l’aide d’un Fab Lab d’entreprise.L’étude de cas menée au sein de l’une des premières structures à développer cette pratique de Fab Lab d’entreprise – le Groupe Renault – définit cet outil de gestion comme une quasi-structure propice au développement de l’ambidextrie contextuelle. Elle présente ensuite le pilotage à mener afin de développer l’ambidextrie contextuelle à l’aide d’un Fab Lab d’entrepriseThis thesis aims to better understand and support corporate innovation strategies to help them coping with the challenges associated with the intensification of the dynamics and changes in the economic environment. However, in order to survive these economic rhythms, previous research recommends organizations to reconcile their exploitation and their exploration activities, concomitantly. In this context, our work specifically examines an innovation strategy giving particular attention to the initiatives of individuals in exploration activities : contextual ambidexterity. Simultaneously, our research examines an object of research previously unreleased in academic studies : the corporate Fab Lab (or internal Fab Lab). At the crossroads of these two subjects, this thesis raises the question of the development of contextual ambidexterity through a corporate Fab Lab. Our case study is conducted in Renault Group, one of the first structures to develop this practice of corporate Fab Lab. Our analysis permits to define this management tool as a quasi-structure conducive to the development of contextual ambidexterity. It then presents the guidance to lead in the objective of developing contextual ambidexterity through a corporate Fab Lab
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Mace, Richard. "Business model innovation, business model enablers and the strategic agility paradox." Thesis, Capella University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10254836.
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Business model innovation, business model enablers, and strategic agility are terms explicitly evaluated and explored by researchers and practitioners. The focus of this dissertation research project included the previous terms and the respective associations with business and leadership decision-making in the context of strategy and innovation. Research design and methodologies included a qualitative, embedded, single case-study through one-on-one, in-depth interviews with primary decision-makers from small technology companies in Minnesota, United States. Primary respondent qualifications were: (a) minimum of five years of experience, (b) minimum of five subordinates, and (c) decision power to influence business model innovation, business model enablers, or strategic agility. Three research questions guided the project: (1) How do the pillars of strategic agility (strategic sensitivity, leadership unity, and resource fluidity) affect business model innovations? (2) How can managers apply the pillars of strategic agility to enhance organizational strategic agility? and (3) How do senior leadership teams manage the contradictions and paradoxes within strategic agility? Respondent interviews were imported and analyzed through Nvivo qualitative data analytics software (QDAS). Over 50 findings are narrated in Chapter 4, of which included one of the key findings: Every company was actively engaged in the paradox, but none of the company leaders specifically calculated or processed the exact phrase – strategic agility paradox. Proposed in Chapter 5 are the set of recommendations for future researchers. The recommendations advocate research in or on contrasting industries and geographies, respondents with contrasting profiles, supplementary qualitative and quantitative techniques, alternative strategic agility pillars, and new research questions.
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Strandell, Dalius Sofia, and Titti Broman. "Exploring a Paradox Management Approach to Achieve Ambidexterity : Empirically Testing the Relevance and Applicability of the Paradox Map on Commercial Real Estate Owners." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-298300.
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The real estate market is constantly changing due to shifts in demand and the rise of new technologies. Innovations emerge at a relentless pace, and the timeframe for exploiting already established value is reduced. Commercial real estate firms must therefore be able to exploit established products while, at the same time, exploring innovations. The ability to manage these opposing forces is called ambidexterity. Organisational ambidexterity is a well-explored area in the academic literature, withnumerous theories regarding how to achieve it most suitably. Wofford, Wyman and Starr (2020) present the paradox map that allegedly provides a practical visual focus for teams considering the short and long-term targets and change for the business. This paradox map has not been tested empirically. Thus, this master’s thesis explores the paradox management approach and thereby contributes to the gap in the academic literature. The study has been conducted with a qualitative research approach. The collected data consisted of semi-structured interviews and a document analysis. Theinterviews were held with respondents from five different commercial real estate owners and a total of nine interviews were conducted. The document analysis was performed by studying all firms’annual reports and one firm's website to complement the respondent's answers.The results from the empirical study were analysed thematically with a deductive approach based on the theoretical framework on the paradox map. The study concludes that the six sub-paradoxes in the paradox map are most relevant when organisations make decisions since they evidently influence decisions regarding innovations. It is also concluded that the commercial real estate owners are ambidextrous according to the innovation paradox of exploit and explore. Thus, since the allegedly ambidextrous organisations proved to be ambidextrous according to the innovation paradox, it is also concluded that the framework is applicable in practice.
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KARLSSON, MICHELLE, and CHARLOTTE VESTERLUND. "Managing the Innovation Paradox of Exploitation andExploration in R&D : Is measurement of innovation the key to promoteexploration?" Thesis, KTH, Industriell Management, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-238441.
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Managing the paradox of exploitation and exploration symbolises the simultaneous pursuit devoting enough resources to exploitation to ensure short-term profits and, at the same time, enough resources to exploration to ensure future organisational viability. Previous researchadvocates that sustained organisational performance and success highly depends on the interaction of exploitation and exploration or in other words, the balancing act between change and continuity. To strategically balance these contradictory requirements is a challenging task for most organisations since exploitation and exploration require fundamentally different organisational structures, processes, strategies and capabilities. Organisations that possess the ability to balance these contradictory requirements are referred to as ambidextrous organisations, what is evident is however that different ambidextrous strategies bring several distinctive challenges that organisations explicitly must deal with. Past literature advocates that management constitute an important part in creating organisational ambidexterity, but has nevertheless due to differentiations in organisational contexts resulted in ambiguous guidance in how to practically solve the tensions between exploitation and exploration. Scania the initiator of this thesis project, one of the world´s leading manufacturers within trucksand buses for heavy transport applications is sensing uncertainty in what undoubtedly used to be a relatively stable environment. Continues improvements has been a fundamental strategy in R&D for decades but in the face of a potentially disruptive technological shift, Scania senses urgency to leverage the innovation capability they possess, to reclaim the exploration space in order to act and seize upon these uncertainties. The purpose of this thesis is to explore how management can support and sustain the exploration space in a mature R&D department. This study builds upon a qualitative case study limited to a specific R&D department, Truck Chassis Development. To draw parallels and provide a deepened understanding of how the specific context of the organisation affect section managers at Truck Chassis Development in supporting and enabling exploration, interview data from several departments at R&D and sales & marketing is analysed. Results from this research show that there is an overall pressure for exploitation in R&D in general, and that section management encounter several challenges in supporting and sustaining the exploration space. An overall pressure for delivery precision crowds out time for exploration and present performance measurements are found to further add to this challenge since they are, to a large extent designed to measure and follow-up the relatively more certain and superior benefits from exploitation, implying that they tend to induce and support exploitative activities. The research findings provide managerial implications in terms of directing attention towards exploration through measurements of exploration.Att balansera innovationsparadoxen syftar till den organisatoriska förmågan att tillägna tillräckliga resurser för exekvering för att säkerställa kortsiktig vinst, och samtidigt, tillägna tillräckliga resurser till utforskande för att säkra ett strategiskt framtida läge. Tidigare forskning visar att organisationers långsiktiga överlevnad är beroende av dessa avvägningar, att leverera produkter med högt kundvärde är viktigt för dagens affär men får inte göras på bekostnad av att utforska möjligheter som kan resultera i framtida innovationer. Att strategiskt balansera dessa två perspektiv utgör en stor utmaning för alla organisationer eftersom att exekvering och utforskande aktiviteter kräver helt olika förutsättningar när det kommer till strukturer, processer och strategier. Företag som besitter förmågan att balansera dessa två helt olika perspektiv brukar refereras som tvehänta. Tvehänta organisationer har visat sig balansera dessa två perspektiv på olika sätt, vilka alla medför utmaningar, dock av olika slag. Tidigare forskning har betonat ledarskap och chefskap som viktiga faktorer i skapandet av tvehänta organisationer men har på grund av organisatoriska differentieringar och olikheter resulterat i vaga riktlinjer angående hur man praktiskt löser de utmaningar som uppstår mellan exekverande och utforskande aktiviteter. Scania, initiativtagare till detta arbete är ett av världens ledande tillverkare inom lastbil och buss för tunga transporter. Scania känner osäkerhet i vad som brukade vara en således stabil bransch. Ständiga förbättringar har varit en betydelsefull strategi i decennier för forskning och utveckling, FoU, men inför ett eventuellt teknikskifte inser man att en betydligt större del av arbetet måste syfta till utforskande aktiviteter. Syftet med detta examensarbete är att undersöka hur management kan möjliggöra och främja utforskande aktiviteter i en mogen FoU-avdelning. Den utförda forskningen grundar sig i en kvalitativ fallstudie som är avgränsad till en specifik FoUavdelning, chassiutveckling för lastbil. För att få en djupare förståelse för ledarskap och det ledarskapsansvar som finns i att främja och stödja utforskande aktiviteter kräver vissa organisatoriska förutsättningar har ett flertal avdelningar inom FoU-organisationen samt sälj & marknad inkluderats i studien. Den utförda forskningen visar att chefer på den undersökta avdelningen möter av ett flertal utmaningar när de försöker möjliggöra och främja utforskande aktiviteter. Det grundar sig främst i ett högt focus på leveransprecision som begränsar chefer i sin roll att stödja och främja utforskande aktiviteter, följden av detta resulterar i begränsat med tid för utforskande eftersom dessa aktiviteter inte prioriteras. Nuvarande prestationsmätning visar indikationer på att ytterligare bidra till dessa utmaningar eftersom de avser att mäta till den största grad, leveransprecision, kvalité och kostnad och där utforskande aktiviteter saknar prestationsmätning. Resultatet av denna studie bidrar med praktiska implikationer för den studerade avdelningen. Eftersom att uppmärksamhet är den mest begränsade resursen har mätvärden för utforskande aktiviteter föreslagits då mätning och styrning av utforskande aktiviteter kan bidra till att dessa aktiviteter uppmärksammas samtidigt som de kan utgöra ett stöd för sektionscheferna i deras roll att främja och stödja utforskande aktiviteter.
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Gomez, Yannick. "Le rôle et les motivations d’une firme leader dans l’essai de transformation de son écosystème d’affaires en écosystème de l’innovation : le cas du site de Marcoule et du démantèlement nucléaire." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSE3037.
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L’américain James MOORE a été le premier à évoquer le concept d’écosystème d’affaires dans un article de 1993 et dans un ouvrage paru en 1996. Plusieurs questions théoriques nous paraissent cependant devoir être complétées : - La place et le rôle d’une firme leader au sein d’un écosystème d’affaires - La question du cycle de vie d’un écosystème d’affaires - L’apparition du terme « écosystème de l’innovation » et son positionnement par rapport à ce concept d’écosystème d’affaires. Pour étudier ces différentes questions de recherche, nous avons observé durant une longue durée l’évolution de la plate-forme nucléaire de Marcoule. En 2013, le CEA Marcoule a lancé l’initiative du Pôle de Valorisation des Sites Industriels. L’objectif de la firme leader est donc de transformer son écosystème d’affaires en écosystème de l’innovation.Dans la première partie de l’étude de cas, nous avons étudié les motivations de la firme leader pour transformer son écosystème d’affaires en écosystème de l’innovation.Le démantèlement nucléaire conduit à sept grands paradoxes (humain, contractuel, déchets, sûreté, financier, territorial, technologique). Le cas Marcoule démontre que si les paradoxes sont majeurs, l’entreprise peut ne pas trouver en interne, par ses propres forces, les moyens d’y répondre. Certains paradoxes imposent des innovations d’exploration sur les plans conceptuels, managériaux et technologiques.La deuxième partie de l’étude de cas a été consacrée à l’étude du rôle du CEA Marcoule, leader de l’écosystème d’affaires territorial, pour transformer celui-ci.Dans ce cadre, nous avons pu observer et décrire trois actions concrètes d’enrôlement des acteurs, dans l’objectif de promouvoir une dynamique d’innovation :- La traduction marché de la montée en gamme de l’écosystème - La création d’un objet-frontière autour de la labellisation écosystèmique - L’ouverture de l’innovation Cette phase d’observation des actions d’enrôlement initiées par le leader de l’écosystème s’est déroulée durant la période de 2013 à mi 2017. Nous avons pu observer les débuts prometteurs de l’initiative PVSI et l’enrôlement réussi des acteurs autour des premiers projets lancés. L’observation du terrain de recherche Marcoule à travers le prisme de notre cadre conceptuel, la sociologie de la traduction, permet de mettre en évidence deux résultats importants.En premier lieu, l’étude du cas Marcoule nous permet de compléter l’approche théorique sur le cycle de vie d’un écosystème d’affaires, en particulier sur la notion d’intentionnalité. En effet, les changements de phase, de la naissance à l’expansion, de l’expansion à l’autorité et de l’autorité au déclin, ne résultent pas des actions prévisibles d’acteurs déterminés par la biologie, mais résultent des intentions stratégiques d’acteurs intelligents. Cette approche nous permet de proposer un nouvelle vision du cycle de vie d’un écosystème d’affaires : Naissance Expansion Transformation en écosystème de l’innovation Déclin et MortEn second lieu, l’observation du cas Marcoule et de la firme leader de son écosystème d’affaires territorial permet de compléter les travaux académiques qui existent sur l’articulation des différentes formes d’ambidextrie. Le cas étudié permet ainsi de mettre en évidence l’existence d’une concurrence ambidextrielle pour l’allocation des ressources qui s’appuie sur l’instrumentalisation des paradoxes internes à l’organisationThe American James MOORE was the first to discuss the concept of business ecosystem in an article from 1993 and in a book published in 1996. Several theoretical questions seemingly need to be completed:- The place and role of a leading firm within a business ecosystem - The question of the life cycle of a business - The emergence of the term "ecosystem of innovation" and its positioning in relation to the concept of business ecosystem.In order to study those different research questions, we have observed for a long time the evolution of the nuclear platform of Marcoule. In 2013, the CEA Marcoule launched the Industrial Sites Valorisation Pole initiative, which aims to promote the upgrading of the ecosystem. The objective of the leading firm is therefore to transform its business ecosystem into an ecosystem of innovation. In the first part of the case study, we studied the motivations of the leading firm for transforming its business ecosystem into an innovation ecosystem.Nuclear dismantling leads to seven major paradoxes (human, contractual, waste, safety, financial, territorial, technological). The case of Marcoule demonstrates that if the paradoxes are major, the company may not find, internally, by its own forces, the means to respond. Some paradoxes impose innovations of exploration on the conceptual, managerial and technological levels. The second part of the case study was devoted to the study of the role of the CEA Marcoule, leader of the territorial business ecosystem in order to transform it. Then we observed and described three concrete enrolment actions of the actors,- The translation on the market of the ecosystem upgrading- The creation of a frontier object around ecosystem labelling- The opening of the innovation This phase of observation of the enrolment actions initiated by the leader of the ecosystem took place during the period from 2013 to mid 2017. We were able to observe the promising start of the PVIS initiative and the successful enrolment of the actors around the first projects that were launched. The observation of the Marcoule research field through the prism of our conceptual framework, the sociology of translation, makes it possible to highlight two important results.First, the study of the Marcoule case allows us to complete the theoretical approach on the life cycle of a business ecosystem, in particular on the notion of intentionality. Phase changes - from birth to expansion, from expansion to authority and from authority to decline - do not result from the foreseeable actions of actors determined by biology, but are the result of the strategic intentions of intelligent actors who continually calculate the gains and losses they can derive from their participation in the business ecosystem.We suggest replacing the traditional life cycle of a business ecosystem proposed by James MOORE (Birth Expansion Authority Renewal Decline and Death) by the following sequence (Birth Expansion Transformation in ecosystem of innovation Decline and Death).Secondly, the observation of the Marcoule case and the leading firm of its territorial business ecosystem completes the academic work that exists on the articulation of different forms of ambidexterity. The CEA/Marcoule case shows us that all the implemented ambidextrous actions were legitimised by highlighting the problems needing to be solved, linked to the paradoxes of nuclear dismantling. purchasing needs to achieve a competition respecting all the rules of the public procurement
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Ingram, Amy E. "Innovation and the Family Firm: Leadership, Mindsets, Practices and Tensions." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1305030185.
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Karlsson, Michélle, and Charlotte Vesterlund. "Managing the Innovation Paradox of Exploitation and Exploration in R&D - : Is measurement of innovation the key to promote exploration?" Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Inst.), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-246078.
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Managing the paradox of exploitation and exploration symbolises the simultaneous pursuit devoting enough resources to exploitation to ensure short-term profits and, at the same time, enough resources to exploration to ensure future organisational viability. Previous research advocates that sustained organisational performance and success highly depends on the interaction of exploitation and exploration or in other words, the balancing act between change and continuity. To strategically balance these contradictory requirements is a challenging task for most organisations since exploitation and exploration require fundamentally different organisational structures, processes, strategies and capabilities. Organisations that possess the ability to balance these contradictory requirements are referred to as ambidextrous organisations, what is evident is however that different ambidextrous strategies bring several distinctive challenges that organisations explicitly must deal with. Past literature advocates that management constitute an important part in creating organisational ambidexterity, but has nevertheless due to differentiations in organisational contexts resulted in ambiguous guidance in how to practically solve the tensions between exploitation and exploration. Scania the initiator of this thesis project, one of the world´s leading manufacturers within trucks and buses for heavy transport applications is sensing uncertainty in what undoubtedly used to be a relatively stable environment. Continues improvements has been a fundamental strategy in R&D for decades but in the face of a potentially disruptive technological shift, Scania senses urgency to leverage the innovation capability they possess, to reclaim the exploration space in order to act and seize upon these uncertainties. The purpose of this thesis is to explore how management can support and sustain the exploration space in a mature R&D department. This study builds upon a qualitative case study limited to a specific R&D department, Truck Chassis Development. To draw parallels and provide a deepened understanding of how the specific context of the organisation affect section managers at Truck Chassis Development in supporting and enabling exploration, interview data from several departments at R&D and sales & marketing is analysed. Results from this research show that there is an overall pressure for exploitation in R&D in general, and that section management encounter several challenges in supporting and sustaining the exploration space. An overall pressure for delivery precision crowds out time for exploration and present performance measurements are found to further add to this challenge since they are, to a large extent designed to measure and follow-up the relatively more certain and superior benefits from exploitation, implying that they tend to induce and support exploitative activities. The research findings provide managerial implications in terms of directing attention towards exploration through measurements of exploration.Att balansera innovationsparadoxen syftar till den organisatoriska förmågan att tillägna tillräckliga resurser för exekvering för att säkerställa kortsiktig vinst, och samtidigt, tillägna tillräckliga resurser till utforskande för att säkra ett strategiskt framtida läge. Tidigare forskning visar att organisationers långsiktiga överlevnad är beroende av dessa avvägningar, att leverera produkter med högt kundvärde är viktigt för dagens affär men får inte göras på bekostnad av att utforska möjligheter som kan resultera i framtida innovationer. Att strategiskt balansera dessa två perspektiv utgör en stor utmaning för alla organisationer eftersom att exekvering och utforskande aktiviteter kräver helt olika förutsättningar när det kommer till strukturer, processer och strategier. Företag som besitter förmågan att balansera dessa två helt olika perspektiv brukar refereras som tvehänta. Tvehänta organisationer har visat sig balansera dessa två perspektiv på olika sätt, vilka alla medför utmaningar, dock av olika slag. Tidigare forskning har betonat ledarskap och chefskap som viktiga faktorer i skapandet av tvehänta organisationer men har på grund av organisatoriska differentieringar och olikheter resulterat i vaga riktlinjer angående hur man praktiskt löser de utmaningar som uppstår mellan exekverande och utforskande aktiviteter. Scania, initiativtagare till detta arbete är ett av världens ledande tillverkare inom lastbil och buss för tunga transporter. Scania känner osäkerhet i vad som brukade vara en således stabil bransch. Ständiga förbättringar har varit en betydelsefull strategi i decennier för forskning och utveckling, FoU, men inför ett eventuellt teknikskifte inser man att en betydligt större del av arbetet måste syfta till utforskande aktiviteter. Syftet med detta examensarbete är att undersöka hur management kan möjliggöra och främja utforskande aktiviteter i en mogen FoU-avdelning. Den utförda forskningen grundar sig i en kvalitativ fallstudie som är avgränsad till en specifik FoU-avdelning, chassiutveckling för lastbil. För att få en djupare förståelse för ledarskap och det ledarskapsansvar som finns i att främja och stödja utforskande aktiviteter kräver vissa organisatoriska förutsättningar har ett flertal avdelningar inom FoU-organisationen samt sälj & marknad inkluderats i studien. Den utförda forskningen visar att chefer på den undersökta avdelningen möter av ett flertal utmaningar när de försöker möjliggöra och främja utforskande aktiviteter. Det grundar sig främst i ett högt focus på leveransprecision som begränsar chefer i sin roll att stödja och främja utforskande aktiviteter, följden av detta resulterar i begränsat med tid för utforskande eftersom dessa aktiviteter inte prioriteras. Nuvarande prestationsmätning visar indikationer på att ytterligare bidra till dessa utmaningar eftersom de avser att mäta till den största grad, leveransprecision, kvalité och kostnad och där utforskande aktiviteter saknar prestationsmätning. Resultatet av denna studie bidrar med praktiska implikationer för den studerade avdelningen. Eftersom att uppmärksamhet är den mest begränsade resursen har mätvärden för utforskande aktiviteter föreslagits då mätning och styrning av utforskande aktiviteter kan bidra till att dessa aktiviteter uppmärksammas samtidigt som de kan utgöra ett stöd för sektionscheferna i deras roll att främja och stödja utforskande aktiviteter.
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Eaton, Benjamin David. "The dynamics of digital platform innovation : unfolding the paradox of control and generativity in Apple's iOS." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2012. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/463/.
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Mobile digital platforms provide an architectural basis for third party innovation of platform complements. Platform owners have property rights, enabling them to establish a boundary of permissible innovation demarcating the permitted from the prohibited. This allows for the curation of complements, which provides a means of controlling for value creation. Consequently, platform innovationthe innovation of platform complements is occasionally refused by platform owners. When this occurs tensions may arise between the two parties over where the boundary of permissible innovation should lie. Tussles may break out, embodied in complex interactions, as each party attempts to get its way. Eventually an outcome is achieved, and a platform innovation is either allowed or prohibited. A body of platform innovation literature is emerging from fields including information systems. Whilst this literature considers many aspects of platform innovation, the dynamics concerning the control of the innovation of platform innovation complements is overlooked. This research attempts to address that gap. Its relevance to information systems concerns the digitalisation of platforms as systemsdigital infrastructures, which affects their capacity for innovation and regulation. This research uses the method of narrative networks to analyse 45 examples of contested platform innovation. This approach, informed by empirical data sourced from over 4500 blog entries, identifies patterned sequences of actions across the examples. These sequences describe how tension builds, how control is asserted, and how control is then resisted. A theory of formal managerial control is used to explain how mechanisms of control are applied by platform owners as well as how developers respond to control. The principle contribution of this research is to theory. It develops and presents a theory to describe and explain the dynamics of contested innovation of complements on curated digital platforms. In doing so, iIt challenges the understanding that the platform owner alone controls platform design rules and concerning which platform complements are allowed, and which are notthe boundary of permissible innovation. Furthermore, tThe study indicates opens up the possibility that the forces of digitalisation provide third parties with the power to affect influence platform architecture, but at the cost of additional means of being controlled.
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Xoljé, Rebecca. "Innovation inom outsourcing av IT : En kvalitativ studie utifrån leverantörens möjligheter att bidra." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Handelshögskolan, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-47833.
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IT-branschen är en av de marknader som konstant växer och krav på nya uppfinningar och innovationer är höga. Outsourcing har under en längre tid används av IT-företag för att kunna reducera kostnader för produktion och utveckling. Outsourcing är även ett bra alternativ för att erhålla expertis inom ett visst område där företag saknar erfarenhet eller resurser. Innovation är en del av företags utveckling och när hela eller delar av företagens IT-avdelningar blir outsourcade är det naturligt att även tillhörande delar av innovationsprocessen har förflyttats. Leverantören är den part som i praktiken utvecklar innovationen i outsourcingavtalet. Leverantörerna får en strikt budget och tidsram från kunden att följa för varje projekt. Innovation är kreativt, föränderligt och levande. Dessutom är innovation dyrt. Helt motsägelsefullt mot outsourcing. Leverantörer har en svår uppgift i att arbeta utifrån kundens krav och samtidigt försöka realisera innovationer. Syftet med studien är att undersöka på vilket sätt leverantörer bidrar med innovation inom outsourcing av IT.Studien har utförts med en kvalitativ fallstudiemetod. Intervjuer har genomförts med fyra olika respondenter på ett stort IT-företag som nästan helt uteslutande arbetar med outsourcing. Den största nackdelen med outsourcing är de stora kraven på kostnadsbesparing, den har en negativ inverkan på innovationen. Alla respondenter har uttryckt att de som leverantör har möjlighet att bidra med innovation men att kostnadsbesparingarna kan göra utrymmet för innovation begränsat i vissa fall. Övergången till det agila arbetssättet har hjälpt till att främja innovationsförmågan hos leverantören.
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Johansson, Adam, and Victor Sundell. "Konsten att förena en paradox : En kvalitativ studie om hur relationer mellan stabilitet och förändring ter sig inom en organisation." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Företagsekonomi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-35469.
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Bakgrund: Organisationer och företag står inför flera utmaningar vad gäller anpassning till den snabba utveckling som sker i dagens samhälle. Det är vitalt för företag som befinner sig inom snabbföränderliga branscher att agera snabbt och effektivt för att ligga i framkant inom sitt specifika område. Syfte: Denna studie har för avsikt att forma en förståelse kring hur relationen mellan stabilitet och förändring ter sig i ett innovativt företag, vilka befinner sig i en snabbföränderlig miljö. Vidare ämnar studien att bidra med djupare insikter kring balansen mellan organisatorisk stabilitet och kortsiktiga innovationsprocesser samt medarbetares syn på denna balans. Metod: Studien har anammat en kvalitativ ansats där insamling av empiri genomförts genom tolv intervjuer med anställda på olika nivåer inom den undersökta organisationen. Slutsats: Studien visar att den undersökta organisationen bibehåller en stabilitet genom arbetsuppgifter som bygger på rutiner, erfarenheter och vanor. Det går att finna skillnader i hur de anställda uppfattar relationen mellan stabilitet och förändring, där olika perspektiv finns på lednings- och medarbetarnivå.Background: Organizations and companies face several challenges regarding adaptation to the rapid development that is taking place in today's society. It is vital for companies that are in fast-changing industries to act quickly and efficiently to stay at the forefront of their specific area. Purpose: This study intends to form an understanding of how the relationship between stability and change occurs in an innovative company, which work within a rapidly changing environment. Furthermore, the study intends to contribute deeper insights into the balance between organizational stability and short-term innovation processes as well as employees' views on this balance. Method: The study has embraced a qualitative approach where empirical gathering was conducted through twelve interviews with employees at different levels within the investigated organization. Conclusion: The study shows that the surveyed organization maintains stability through work based on routines, experiences and habits. Differences can be found in how employees perceive the relationship between stability and change, with different perspectives at management level and employee level.
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Staniulyte, Jurgita. "An inquiry into the underlying causes of the 'European periphery paradox' using the framework of National Innovation Systems." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21602/.
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This PhD thesis investigates underlying causes of the “European periphery paradox” by employing the National Innovation System (NIS) approach and the mixed methods methodology. The central contribution of the thesis is to the NIS literature and lies within providing new theoretical and empirical explanations for the underlying causes of systemic differences between Western and Eastern European innovation systems. The thesis is composed of three parts. The quantitative part proposes an empirical model that incorporates the innovation diffusion concept into the analysis of NIS dynamics. The model reveals significant differences in causal relationships between innovation generation and diffusion within five different groups of NISs globally. It also reveals various social, institutional and economic factors that possibly stimulate dynamics of the NISs. The qualitative part looks for deeper contextualised explanations for factors that influence transformation of NISs in transition economies. The case study points to various institutional inefficiencies as barriers to transformation. It reveals that institutional entrepreneurship could be one of the most effective mechanisms to stimulate institutional change through internal (within organisation) and through external (policy-making level) pressures. The conceptual part of the thesis contributes to a better understanding of the institutional change process by exploring the principal-agent model in the context of an entrepreneurial university and NIS. By incorporating the concept of innovation diffusion, the concept of institutional entrepreneurship and the principal-agent model, this thesis links macro, meso and micro levels in analysing the operations of NISs. It reveals the importance of active interrelationships between all actors of NIS and their abilities to generate, adopt and diffuse innovations locally. Furthermore, this thesis highlights the necessity of having entrepreneurial public institutions for countries seeking innovation-based growth. The thesis points to the importance of the human agency role, in particular, the role of institutional entrepreneurship, in the process of institutional change. The thesis also proposes a balanced individualised incentive system to motivate agents to contribute to the change from an ordinary to an entrepreneurial institution.
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Chang, Chuan Teh. "A influência das tensões ambidestras na arquitetura organizacional para inovação: estudo de casos em empresas brasileiras da indústria de transformação." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/3/3136/tde-29122014-181456/.
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Na busca pela viabilidade do negócio, as empresas devem considerar e lidar com os cenários atuais e futuros. Para tanto, algumas procuram adquirir habilidades em extrair resultados de seus recursos atuais pelas inovações incrementais enquanto exploram simultaneamente novas competências para desenvolver inovações mais radicais que proporcionem perspectivas futuras de negócios, e por esta característica dual tais companhias são classificadas de organizações ambidestras. Contudo, o desafio de administrar simultaneamente as duas atividades geram paradoxos - as tensões ambidestras - que influenciam tanto as escolhas estratégicas de implementação quanto as mudanças na arquitetura organizacional para inovação. Logo, o propósito deste trabalho é investigar a influência destas tensões na arquitetura organizacional e identificar quais são os fatores que colaboram com as mudanças. Os resultados apontam que os fatores externos competição e especificidades do mercado são determinantes na adoção de estratégias ambidestras; já entre os fatores internos, o modelo de negócios, as crenças e a capacidade inovadora vigente são direcionadores na escolha da arquitetura organizacional para inovação. Além disso, as características das tensões ambidestras, a intensidade dessa dualidade e sua ortogonalidade estratégica em relação à atual capacidade inovadora também interferem nas mudanças da arquitetura organizacional. Esta tese propõe ainda um modelo vetorial para explicar as influências e os fenômenos analisados.In the pursuit of business viability, companies must consider and deal with current and future scenarios. For such, some companies seek acquiring skills in extracting results from their present resources for incremental innovations whilst simultaneously exploring new competences to develop more radical innovations that provide them future business prospects, and due to this dual characteristic such companies are classified as ambidextrous organizations. However, the challenge of simultaneously administering the two activities creates paradoxes - the ambidextrous tensions - that influence both the strategic choices of implementation and the changes in the organizational architecture for innovation. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of these tensions in the organizational architecture and to identify which factors collaborate with those changes. The results indicate the external factors of competition and specificities of the market are decisive in the adoption of ambidextrous strategies; whereas amongst internal factors, the business model, the beliefs and the current innovative ability are drivers in the choice of the organizational architecture for innovation. Furthermore, the characteristics of the ambidextrous tensions, the intensity of this duality and its strategic orthogonality regarding the current innovative ability also interfere in the changes of the organizational architecture. This thesis also proposes a vectorial model to explain such analyzed phenomena and influences.
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Ribeiro, Jéssica Araújo. "Inovar a tradição : estudo de casos." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/19229.
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Mestrado em Gestão e Estratégia IndustrialEsta dissertação visa entender um paradoxo muito recente na nossa economia, nomeadamente a tensão existente entre tradição e inovação. Com base num vasto conjunto de referências bibliográficas serão estudadas temáticas como: modelos de negócio, produtos tradicionais, inovação e a sua tipologia e ainda a inovação da inovação da tradição como gestão do paradoxo. Ao longo do estudo serão aprofundados diversos conceitos relacionados com produtos tradicionais, com os vários tipos de inovação e com as suas subcategorias, assim como a forma como estes produtos podem e têm sido inovados ao longo da sua vida. Estes representam produtos com história, passados de geração em geração, que muitas vezes necessitam da inovação para sobreviveram no mercado e provocam reações nos consumidores. Inovar a tradição é considerado um paradoxo, uma contradição entre dois conceitos presentes na nossa economia e com possíveis formas de resposta. De forma a explorar mais aprofundadamente a relação entre tradição e inovação, serão abordados dois casos de estudo contrastantes, com modelos de negócio distintos, nomeadamente A Vida Portuguesa e O Valor do Tempo, a fim de perceber como cada um deles responde ao paradoxo descrito. Estas empresas geram vantagens competitivas e criam valor através da inovação da tradição, tendo desenvolvido estratégias idiossincráticas para abordar o paradoxo.
This dissertation provides a complete understanding regarding a very recent paradox in the Portuguese economy, namely the tension between tradition and innovation. Based on a wide range of bibliographic references, thematic areas such as business models, traditional products, innovation and their typology will be studied, as well as the innovation of tradition as paradox management. Throughout the study, it will be deepened several concepts related to traditional products, the various types of innovation and their subcategories, as well as how these products can and have been innovated throughout their life. These are products with a history passed down from generation to generation, that often need innovation to survive in the market and provoke reactions in consumers. Innovating tradition is considered a paradox, a contradiction between two concepts present in the Portuguese economy and with various forms of response. With the intent to further develop this paradox, two contrasting case studies from different business models were analyzed: A Vida Portuguesa and O Valor do Tempo. They will be addressed in order to understand how each one of them responds to the paradox described. These companies have generated competitive advantage and value creation through tradition innovation and have developed idiosyncratic strategies for addressing the paradox.
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Moganedi, Kelvin Mogale. "Organisational performance as a mediating construct between employee-driven innovation and organisational ambidexterity as studied through the lens of paradox." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73992.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate tensions between employee-driven innovation and organisational ambidexterity, and how these tensions affect organisational performance. The tensions were framed on the Paradox Theory. The study focused on South African organisations, particularly in the Johannesburg and Pretoria regions. This study adopted a positivist paradigm, deductive approach, explanatory research, and quantitative method with a total number of 172 respondents.
The analysis found that the relationship (or tension) between organisational ambidexterity and employee-driven innovation, is a mediator between the two other tensions of interest, namely, organisational ambidexterity versus organisational performance, as well as employee-driven innovation versus organisational performance. Through hypothesis testing, all three hypotheses showed tensions existed between the three constructs, respectively. The study also found respondents’ willingness and ability to be involved in employee-driven innovation initiatives, elements of ambidexterity were also observed from the results at both individual and organisational levels.
As the research was set mainly in Johannesburg and Pretoria, generalisability of the results may prove a challenge. Managers should be encouraged to set up processes that remove or reduce the friction between employees’ daily responsibilities, and involvement in innovation initiatives. In order to build an ambidextrous organisation, managers need to be deliberate about such processes, resources allocated to technology, as well as learning initiatives for both themselves and their teams. In addition, managers need to intentionally work on the behaviour of the organisation and attitudes.Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2019.
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Engels, Elisa, and Sina Herholz. "Unleashing the Potential of Open Innovation in Family Firms : Towards the Explanation of the Ability and Willingness Dichotomy in Family Firms." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-43814.
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Research on Open Innovation (OI) is flourishing and opening the innovation process is increasingly perceived as a vital source for sustained competitive advantage. Nascent research on OI in family firms left us to wonder whether the performance-enhancing effects of OI also hold true for family firms. What we do know so far is despite that family firms typically possess greater ability to innovate, they lack the willingness to do so. Taking this as a starting point, the purpose of this study was to identify sources of family firm heterogeneity, in order to explain how these differences influence their willingness to engage in OI and further assess the overall relevance of OI models for family firms. In an attempt to resolve the innovation paradox, the present study builds upon a multi-theory approach of behavioral lenses, to capture the inherent complexities of family firm innovation. Empirical evidence from a cross-industry analysis of 176 German Mittelstand firms provides strong support for the importance of OI practices in a family firm context. Precisely, we affirm that family firms generate increased performance outcomes when engaging in OI. Our findings unearth a double-edged sword that higher generations foster a family firm’s willingness to engage in OI, but hamper their ability to benefit from it. Our findings are especially relevant in light of current market dynamics and build the bridge between OI and family firm research in an insightful manner. We thereby contribute to solving one piece of the innovation puzzle and identify promising areas for future research.
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Perry, Keston Kyle. "Governing technological change and the paradox of competitiveness : an analysis of state capacity in science, technology and innovation policies in Trinidad and Tobago." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2017. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/26164/.
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This thesis investigates the evolution of state capacities in science, technology and innovation (ST&I) policies in a small developing country. It empirically examines the minutiae of interactions among various actors and agencies in this domain, with in-depth case analysis of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) during 2002 and 2015. Data were collected from forty-eight interviews with university researchers, state officials, industry, and donors, in addition to archival and secondary documentation. Findings show an uneven distribution of ideas, information, knowledge inputs, technical capabilities, and organisational power. Detailed historical analysis reveals changing state-society configurations according to social, political and economic developments. I thus conceptualise these asymmetric and dynamic relations across organisational units as 'networks of power'. Compared to the early 1970s, the state, pressured by anti-colonial mobilisations, created new institutions and fostered developmental coalitions comprising state and private enterprises, high-skilled researchers and multilateral agencies to successfully promote technologies in agriculture, telecommunications, energy, and steel. Its ability to design and implement ST&I policies is currently constrained by informal relationships, ethnic considerations, powerful sectoral interests, a fragmented institutional apparatus, intense clientelism, and the formal requirements of multilateral bodies. Taking a long-term horizon to improve technological capabilities, allocate to productive firms, coordinate agents, and deploy appropriate fiscal instruments is thus stymied. This analysis reveals a paradox: after thirty years of market-friendly policies, why has the country not improved its overall technological performance? Consequently, it was found that both innovation systems and 'good governance' frameworks do not endogenise the interplay of domestic and international forces in the national political economy that give rise to structural, technical and socio-political (STP) imbalances. I propose a novel approach - the Developmental Governance Capability Framework (DCGF) - that incorporates these dimensions to help reformulate ST&I interventions aligned to broad-based developmental aims, and considers the complex political processes associated with effecting new developmental coalitions.
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Lorenz, Annika [Verfasser], Knut [Akademischer Betreuer] Blind, and de Vrande Vareska [Akademischer Betreuer] van. "Unraveling the paradox of external knowledge sourcing in an era of open innovation, appropriation, and organizational learning / Annika Lorenz. Gutachter: Vareska van de Vrande. Betreuer: Knut Blind." Berlin : Technische Universität Berlin, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1066546878/34.
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Lorenz, Annika Verfasser], Knut [Akademischer Betreuer] Blind, and Vareska van de [Akademischer Betreuer] [Vrande. "Unraveling the paradox of external knowledge sourcing in an era of open innovation, appropriation, and organizational learning / Annika Lorenz. Gutachter: Vareska van de Vrande. Betreuer: Knut Blind." Berlin : Technische Universität Berlin, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1066546878/34.
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Lorenz, Annika [Verfasser], Knut [Akademischer Betreuer] Blind, and Vareska van de [Akademischer Betreuer] Vrande. "Unraveling the paradox of external knowledge sourcing in an era of open innovation, appropriation, and organizational learning / Annika Lorenz. Gutachter: Vareska van de Vrande. Betreuer: Knut Blind." Berlin : Technische Universität Berlin, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:83-opus4-53740.
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Khayre, Abdimajid, and Jan Niklas Schmänk. "Collaborative Innovation in Family Businesses : Empirical Study on the Influence of Family Involvement in Top Management Teams." Thesis, Jönköping University, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-52929.
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Background: Innovation is widely recognized to be instrumental for the sustained competitiveness of businesses, including family businesses. However, many family firms are unable to achieve innovation on their own, necessitating the shift towards collaborative innovation. Yet, due to the overlap of family and business, innovation in family firms is characterized by the so-called“innovation paradox” where family firms usually possess a greater ability to innovate but lack the willingness to do so. Accordingly, considerable attention has been given to the factors that affect the willingness of family firms in an attempt to understand and possibly resolve the innovation paradox. Purpose: The purpose of the present study is to explore how the degree of family involvement in the top management team (TMT) influences the family firm’s willingness to engage in collaborative innovation and how that influences the preferred type of collaborative innovation. By exploring the link between the degree of family involvement in TMT and the willingness in the context of collaborative innovation, our study aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of the innovation paradox associated with family businesses, and thereby offer important insights to practitioners, both from the family and non-family perspective. Method: Our methods were based on qualitative research with an exploratory research design and multiple case-study methods of eleven family firms. Through semi-structured interviews with both family and non-family TMT members, we gained insights into the role of family influence on family firms. We also used a cross-case analysis to compare the cases and indicate similarities and differences in order to draw our conclusions. Conclusion: The results of the study show that the degree of family involvement in the top management teams influences the family firms’ willingness to engage in collaborative innovation. Depending on the degree of family involvement as represented by the respective configurations, five patterns of influence manifestations (IM) are identified.
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Wan, Jiangyun. "Essays on Competition in the Pharmaceutical Industry." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1900.
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Chapter 1: Patents and Entry Competition in the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Role of Marketing Exclusivity
Effective patent length for innovation drugs is severely curtailed because of extensive efficacy and safety tests required for FDA approval, raising concern over adequacy of incentives for new drug development. The Hatch-Waxman Act extends patent length for new drugs by five years, but also promotes generic entry by simplifying approval procedures and granting 180-day marketing exclusivity to a first generic entrant before the patent expires. In this paper we present a dynamic model to examine the effect of marketing exclusivity. We find that marketing exclusivity may be redundant and its removal may increase generic firms' profits and social welfare.
Chapter 2: Why Authorized Generics?: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations
Facing generic competition, the brand-name companies some-times launch generic versions themselves called authorized generics. This practice is puzzling. If it is cannibalization, it cannot be profitable. If it is divisionalization, it should be practiced always instead of sometimes. I explain this phenomenon in terms of switching costs in a model in which the incumbent first develops a customer base to ready itself against generic competition later. I show that only sufficiently low switching costs or large market size justifies launch of AGs. I then use prescription drug data to test those results and find support.
Chapter 3: The Merger Paradox and R&D
Oligopoly theory says that merger is unprofitable, unless a majority of firms in industry merge. Here, we introduce R&D opportunities to resolve this so-called merger paradox. We have three results. First, when there is one R&D firm, that firm can profitably merge with any number of non-R&D firms. Second, with multiple R&D firms and multiple non-R&D firms, all R&D firms can profitably merge. Third, with two R&D firms and two non-R&D firms, each R&D firms prefer to merge with a non-R&D firm. With three or more than non-R&D firms, however, the R&D firms prefer to merge with each other.
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Hansen, Sofia. "Innovationskultur: utmaningar, åtgärder och paradoxer." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Inst.), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-33649.
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Ett företags organisationskultur erkänns idag av många som en viktig faktor när det handlar om att skapa innovationer i en industriell kontext. Anledningen till detta är att organisationskulturen utgör den grund av gemensamma antaganden och värderingar som präglar beteendet i en organisation. Många författare har undersökt samspelet mellan organisationskultur och innovationsförmåga och vissa har också gjort försök att beskriva hur en organisationskultur som stödjer innovation bör se ut. (se till exempel Kanter, 1985 och Martin & Terblanche, 2004) I denna uppsats presenteras och jämförs olika parametrar, som typiskt sett sägs ingå i en organisationskultur som stödjer innovation, på tre fallföretag i en gemensam koncern. Likheter och olikheter identifieras i företagens tillvägagångssätt och dess effekt på kulturen, varpå rekommendationer lämnas angående hur företagen vidare kan agera för att öka förutsättningarna för innovation i organisationen genom kulturstyrning. Uppsatsen diskuterar också, utifrån fallföretagens situationer och medarbetarnas uppfattningar, huruvida det verkligen går att generalisera bilden av vad som är en innovationskultur på alla företag. En slutsats blir att en företagsledning måste anta en situationsanpassad inställning till sin teknokratiska och socioideologiska styrning för att skapa en lämplig innovationskultur som är anpassad till företagets strategiska inriktning.Organizational culture is by many recognized as an important factor in managing innovation, due to its ability to influence organizational behavior through shared values and beliefs. Many scientists have investigated the interaction between organizational culture and innovativeness. Some have also attempted to describe the cultural characteristics shared by innovative companies. (See for instance Kanter, 1985 and Martin & Terblanche, 2004) In this report a number of determinants of organizational culture, which typically are claimed to promote innovation, are investigated in three case companies. Similarities and dissimilarities are identified in the different policies and processes of the companies, as well as their impact on the organizational cultures. The results of this report lead to a number of recommendations to the management teams, these concerns managerial steps aiming to develop the organizational culture to be more supportive of innovation. The report also discusses whether it is possible to make general conclusions with regard to the features of an organizational culture particularly supportive of innovation. It is concluded that a management team has to adopt a contingency approach towards its technocratic and socio-ideological control in order to create an innovation culture appropriate with the strategic direction of the company.
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Wiles, Michael A. "Two essays on the paradoxes of innovation." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3331246.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Kelley School of Business, 2008.Title from home page (viewed on Jul 23, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-11, Section: A, page: 4420. Adviser: Neil Morgan.
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Alsayed, Mahmoud Sayah. "Management accounting innovations in the UK manufacturing sector, with special emphasis on ABC paradox." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/fd69691c-9705-46cf-95fa-b9107f6747a8.
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The overall aim of this study was to explore the current status of the UK manufacturing sector in terms of using management accounting innovations (MAIs). Furthermore, by focusing on one set of techniques, Activity Based Techniques, this study aimed to contribute to understanding the predictors of the adoption of management accounting innovations, and thereby, to better understand the more general phenomenon of organisational innovation and management accounting change. In order to achieve these aims a generic stage-factor model for studying MAI adoption and implementation was developed. This model is based on a heterogeneous theoretical framework that utilised three different theoretical perspectives: institutional, fashion and efficient-choice perspectives. The theoretical framework consisted of six blocks of predictors: institutional push, need pull, innovation attributes, innovator attributes, implementation process attributes and environment attributes. Also, organisational innovation theory and literature was consulted in order to identify prior ABC adoption research limitations and, thereby, address them. The theoretical model was customised to examine ABT adoption and explain the "ABC Paradox": apparently low rates of ABT adoption despite the proclaimed benefits that the technique brings. Eighteen hypotheses were developed and tested to examine the relationship between ABT adoption and the blocks of predictors. Data was collected by mail questionnaire sent to all medium and large manufacturing companies in the UK having a minimum of one CIMA member with at least 5 years membership (1,456 strategic business units). A response rate of 11% (152 manufacturing business units) was attained utilising Dillman's "Tailored Design Method" of questionnaire design and distribution. The collected data were mainly analysed via a sophisticated threestage multivariate logistic regression analysis. The results showed that management accounting innovations are relevant and an important means for change. On average, respondents adopt and use 9-10 MAIs. The ABC paradox is found to be related to certain limitations in previous research. By utilising a wide but explicit definition of ABT in addition to the stage model, it was found that almost 72% of the business units in the sample had experience of ABT. The adoption rate was approximately 37% (i. e. ABT was either approved and being implemented or in use). The overall usage rate was 28% while the rate for extensive usage of ABT was 11%. Moreover, this study revealed that the majority of ABT users used ABT on an ad hoc basis rather than a systematic planned basis. Previous studies may not be as inconsistent as they appear when the various definitions of ABT (and scope for misunderstanding) and the routes to implementation are taken into account. In terms of the predictors of ABT adoption, it was found that the key predictors were drawn from three factor blocks: institutional pressures, attributes of ABT and attributes of the innovating company. The final model indicates that adoption of ABT can be predicted by forced-selection, mimetic behaviour, the ease with which ABT results can be demonstrated and management support. Contingency related factors, need-pull and environmental factors, that texts and consultants tend to emphasise when justifying the adoption of ABT are not key predictors of ABT adoption. The absence of both these blocks of factors suggests that traditional contingency models may be under-specified
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Tohveri, Pia Mira Marika. "Weaving paradoxes : materiality, innovation and personhood in Guatemalan Maya clothing." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2006. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1445878/.
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This thesis discusses how the materiality of weaving and wearing cloth parallels the construction of personhood among the Maya in Guatemala. Maya clothing is renown for bright colours that accentuate personhood and community-bound origin. Colour is highly affective in the construction of Maya self-aesthetics due to its connotation with ancestral knowledge and positive bodily states. The potency of colour has allowed for political economy to be invested in clothing, and at present clothes define the Maya body politic. Efficacy of Maya cloth is revealed in the process of weaving, during which the selection of colours and thread types affect the quality of the finished cloth. Weavers' skills are dependent on the relationship of the body with the loom, which is considered inseparable, for the ability to weave good quality cloth. For Maya women, weaving provides the time and space during which both cloth and personhood is created and maintained. Weaving is an occasion for the exchange of information pertaining to the making of cloth as well as dealing with aspects of womanhood. The handling of looms, threads and patterns provides an axis for the discussion of topics that parallel Maya girls' initiation to adulthood. Weaving as cultural performance encompasses the gathering of women and enables weavers to connect with women within and outside their kin group. The increased flow of tourism to Guatemala has expanded the popularity of Maya cloth. Weavers have started to change the visual form of Maya cloth by introducing new designs, colours and patterns to comply with the tourist market. This allows Maya women to adhere to cultural knowledge and simultaneously to transform it. Stealing and dealing in weaving skills are a part of getting ahead in the weaving business. Doing this, Maya women have attained a powerful economic presence in the local and global world through the manipulation of cultural knowledge.
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Adams, Chithra. "Exploring Leadership Behaviors Exhibited by Evaluation Team Leads during Innovation." UKnowledge, 2017. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/edsc_etds/25.
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Leading innovation is a difficult process because it is replete with tensions and paradoxes. Innovations require leaders to switch leadership styles depending on the context and the phase of innovation. This study used two leadership theoretical frameworks, transformational and transactional leaderships, to understand the leadership behaviors used to promote and manage the process of innovation.
The purpose of this study was to explore leadership behaviors exhibited by evaluation team leaders during the process of innovation. The focus of the study was on leadership behaviors and study participants are individuals who identify as evaluators who led a team of two or more evaluators. This study used Critical Incident Technique (CIT) to better understand the leadership behaviors exhibited during the process of innovation. Through semi-structured interviews, participants described a specific innovation that he/she led during the past 24 months, the actions they took to lead and support their team, outcomes and their perspectives about the process.
Contradictory behaviors were exhibited at all three key stages of innovation—insight, prototype, and adoption. Leaders described both transformational and transactional leadership behaviors at all the major innovation phases. Leaders were both people and task oriented in their leadership style.
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T'Serclaes, Philippine de. "Revisiting the energy-efficiency paradox : lessons from the diffusion of cogeneration in the European Union." Paris 1, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA010071.
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This doctoral project was prompted by the endurance of an under-deployment of energy-efficiency technologies and the little academic research analyzing real-life challenges of increasing these technologies' diffusion. The thesis conducts an ex-post impact evaluation of the diffusion of Combined Heat and Power (CHP or cogeneration) in three European Union (EU). As such, the thesis seeks to build the empirical research-base on EE technology deployment and learn lessons for current framework of theoretical interpretation of technological change. In so doing, the thesis builds on alternative economic theories and provides new elements for understanding the enduring under-deployment of cost-effective EE technologies. The impact evaluation of cogeneration diffusion provides les sons for policy makers in increasing the deployment of cost-effective energy-efficiency technologies.
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Paillard, Sandrine. "Le paradoxe de la productivité et la diffusion des technologies de l'information." Paris 1, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA010017.
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"On voit des ordinateurs partout excepté dans les statistiques économiques". Dans un article paru dans le New York times en 1987, Robert Solow résume en une phrase une situation paradoxale ou coexistent, dans les pays développés depuis les années soixante-dix, un ralentissement prolonge des gains de productivité et une accélération du progrès technique en particulier dans le domaine des technologies de l'information (TI). L'objectif de cette thèse consiste à apporter des éléments d'explication au paradoxe de la productivité. Dans une première partie, la réalité du paradoxe est établie. D'une part, le progrès technique est bien un déterminant essentiel de la croissance de la productivité. D'autre part, le ralentissement des gains de productivité est un phénomène réel qui demeure largement inexpliqué et le rythme du progrès technique dans le domaine des TI est impressionnant. Par ailleurs, on voit bien, comme l'affirme Solow, des ordinateurs dans toutes les entreprises même si l'ampleur et les modèles de diffusion sont très différents selon les pays, les secteurs d'activité, la taille des firmes et la sphère d'application. Enfin, aucune relation claire entre l'investissement dans les ti et les performances économiques n'est identifiable que se soit à un niveau macro-économique, sectoriel ou micro-économique. Dans une deuxième partie, une explication au paradoxe est proposé. Le phénomène résulte 1) des délais inhérents au processus de diffusion des TI,2) d'une inadéquation persistante entre différentes bases de connaissance et types d'équipements et 3) la lenteur des mécanismes de co-évolution entre les opportunités potentielles ouvertes par des technologies radicalement nouvelles, d'un côté, et les arrangements organisationnels que les firmes et plus généralement les institutions collectives sont capables de développer. Un modèle de diffusion des TI illustre les mécanismes d'ordre technologique a l'origine de la lenteur des processus de diffusion et d'apprentissage technologiques tandis qu'une analyse qualitative de la dynamique organisationnelle permet de comprendre pourquoi le potentiel de nouvelles technologies et de nouvelles formes organisationnelles n'est exploité qu'après une période d'ajustement des firmes et des institutions"We see computers everywhere but in economic statistics". In 1987, in a New York times paper, Robert Solow sum up in a single sentence a paradoxical situation where coexist, in developed countries from the seventies, a slowdown in productivity gains and an acceleration of technical progress notably concerning information technologies (IT). The aim of the dissertation is to give some elements of explanation to the productivity paradox. In a first part, the reality of the paradox is established. First, technological change is a crucial determinant of productivity gains dynamics. Second, the slowdown in productivity gains is a real phenomenom which stays widely unexplained and the rythm of technological advances in it is impressing. Third, as pointed by solow, we can see computers in every business firms even though the scope and patterns of diffusion are very unequal among nations, sectors, firms and application fields. Fourth, it is not possible to establish a clear relationship between it investments and economic performances, whatever level of analysis. In a second part, an explanation to the productivity paradox is advanced. The phenomenon is explained by 1) time-consuming diffusion processes of information-based technologies, 2) rather persistent mismatches between different knowledge bases and types of capital equipment, and 3) rather slow co-evolutionary mechanisms between the potential opportunities which radically new technologies and new organisational patterns provide, on the one hand, and organisational arrangements which business firms and collective institutions are able to develop, on the other. A simulation model of diffusion highlights the generality of technology-related "retardation mechanisms". Conversely, a qualitative discussion of organisational dynamics further adds to the general point that the full impact of potentially superior technologies is likely to be exploited by any economic system only after a good deal of painstaking adjustment within and among different business organisations and broader institutions
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Fält, Josefine, Joanna Sarvanidis, and Gabriella Ståhl. "Hetero, homo eller lite av varje? : En studie som behandlar paradoxen som uppstår när organisationer vill vara både heterogena och homogena." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-65349.
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Titel: Hetero, homo eller lite av varje? –En studie som behandlar paradoxen som uppstår när organisationer vill vara både heterogena och homogena. Författare: Josefine Fält, Joanna Sarvanidis & Gabriella Ståhl Institution: Linnéuniversitetet, Ekonomihögskolan Program: Human Resource Management Kurs: Företagsekonomi III - Organisation, Examensarbete (kandidat) Handledare: Kjell Arvidsson Examinator: Mikael Lundgren Syfte: Med denna uppsats vill vi skapa förståelse för hur organisationer arbetar med mångfald och kulturstyrning för att hantera paradoxen i heterogenitet och homogenitet som uppstår när organisationer strävar efter att vara både innovativa och effektiva. Syftet är även att identifiera konkreta förslag på hur organisationer i praktiken kan arbeta med mångfald och kulturstyrning. Metod: Vi har valt att göra en kvalitativ flerfallstudie med inslag från både deduktiv ansats och induktiv ansats. Slutsats: I vår slutsats kom vi fram till att organisationer arbetar med mångfald och kulturstyrning på olika sätt. Vi presenterar förslag på hur organisationer skulle kunna arbeta på liknande sätt för att uppnå både innovation och effektivitet. Nyckelord: Heterogenitet, homogenitet, mångfaldsarbete, kulturstyrning, innovation och effektivitet.Title: Hetero, Homo or a bit of both? –A study addressing the paradox that occurs when organizations want to be heterogeneous and homogeneous. Authors: Josefine Fält, Joanna Sarvanidis & Gabriella Ståhl Program: Human Resource Management Course: Business Administration III - Organization (bachelor thesis) Supervisor: Kjell Arvidsson Examiner: Mikael Lundgren Purpose: The purpose of this study is to understand how organizations works with diversity and culture management in a way that handles the paradox between heterogeneity and homogeneity, in their search for innovation and efficiency. We also want to identify suggestions for how organizations can work with diversity and culture management. Methodology: We have made a qualitative multiple case study with elements from both the deductive approach and inductive approach. Conclusions: We have come to the conclusion that organizations work with diversity management and culture management in different ways. We present suggestions on how organizations could work in a similar way to achieve both innovation and efficiency. Key words: Heterogeneity, Homogeneity, Diversity management, Culture management, innovation and efficiency.
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Schirmer, Frank, and Michael Tasto. "Reflexive Power(s)? - Exploring the Dynamics, Contradictions and Paradoxes of Evolving Political Forms in Innovative Organizations." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-170100.
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How do reflexive political forms within organizations and the design of innovation processes co-evolve? This paper focuses on emerging reflexive forms of power and authority, considered as regimes beyond pure domination (Clegg et al. 2006: 330 f.). We assume that preserving freedom and initiative of individuals, while not undermining the power of organizational top elites, is particularly essential for business success of organisations operating in high-tech, innovative sectors. Up to now, however, neither the development of related political forms within organisations, nor their intertwinements with innovation processes have been very well understood. Therefore this paper studies the linkages between innovation processes and reflexive political forms of organizations. More specifically, the paper aims to explore in detail the contested, antagonistic and paradoxical processes an organisation must undertake in designing a reflexive political form, a “political hybrid” (Clegg et al. 2006: 333), conducive to innovation capabilities and innovation processes in high-tech companies. Theoretical reasoning is underlined by first insights from a longitudinal case study, being part of a comparative case study program, focusing on the co-evolution of political forms and innovation process design in a SME in southern Germany. The paper contributes to the debate on power and innovation in several respects. First, we will propose a dynamic approach to exploring change and development of political forms within organisations. Most of the literature concerned with different political forms and political regimes within organisations is still centred on static typologies and its comparison (Clegg et al. 2006: 332). Second, we will examine the often neglected, contradictory processes shaping hybrid political forms in organisations. Third, we will conceptually and empirically explore linkages between innovation processes and emerging political hybrids within organizations. This study is, to the best of our knowledge, a research desideratum both in the literature on power and the literature on innovation processes (e.g. Hage and Meeus 2006; Poole and Van De Ven 2004; Vigoda-Gadot and Drory 2006; Clegg et al. 2006).
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Benjelloun, Ghita. "L’irrigation des jardins au Proche-Orient : héritage et innovations." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LYO20046/document.
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La recherche de l’eau a été une nécessité, depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’à nos jours. Au Proche-Orient, la répartition des ressources en l’eau est très inégale et les précipitations sont presque partout insuffisantes. L’homme a développé des systèmes de captage, d’accumulation, d’adduction, d’élévation et de distribution de l’eau de plus en plus variés et élaborés. Les Assyriens, les Grecs, les Nabatéens et les Romains ont transmis ces acquis à l’Orient médiéval que les savants musulmans développeront comme une science et appliqueront dans divers régions. Le jardin, comme l’irrigation des champs et l’approvisionnement des villes et villages, exige des ressources en eau permanente. Notre étude, qui cherchait à vérifier si l’acquisition et la distribution de celle-ci exigeaient une organisation différente et des techniques particulières, apporte une réponse négative. Ce sont aussi ces mêmes systèmes qui alimentent les cités en eau courante ; les techniques ont peu changé, tout comme leur utilisation. En revanche, nous nous sommes rendu compte que le jardin – dont la fonction a changé – passant de l’enclos sacré des temples de l’Antiquité à un espace d’agrément et de prestige, a suscité la créativité des hydrauliciens, médiévaux surtout, et modernes, au service de l’élite. Comme souligné dans cette recherche, certaines techniques ont été mises en œuvre dans diverses régions, parfois dans les plus répulsives, peut-être par défi. À des fins esthétiques et ludiques, les savants ont inventé des bassins élaborés, jeux d’eau et fontaines, ce que nous apprennent les sources textuelles ; malheureusement, les témoins archéologiques sont très pauvres à cet égard. En effet, l’exemple de la noria semble être mieux documenté que d’autres systèmes. Nous pouvons cependant montrer que le jardin de l’élite, l’évolution de son concept et de ses formes, a été un puissant stimulant pour le développement des techniques hydrauliquesThe research of water has always been a necessity, since Antiquity to the present days. In the Middle-East, the distribution of resources is quite unequal and the precipitations are almost insufficient everywhere. Mankind developed more and more various and elaborated systems for water channeling, accumulating, adduction, elevation and supply. Assyrians, Greeks, Nabateans and Romans transmitted their knowledge to the Medieval Middle-East, then developed by Muslim intellectuals as a science and applied in numerous regions. The garden, like fields, cities or villages supply, requires permanent water resources. I intended to verify if water origin and distribution necessitated a different organization and specific techniques, my study show they did not. There are different systems for supplying water for cities; techniques softly changed, as their use. However, I realized the garden, whose function changed and which firstly was a temple sacred enclosure during the Antiquity, became an ornamental and prestigious area, then aroused medieval and modern hydraulic engineers’ creativity at the service of the elite. We underlined, in this research, several techniques used in various regions, occasionally the most arid ones, perhaps as a challenge. For aesthetic and playful aims, according to the texts, the scientists invented elaborated ponds, water games and fountains; unfortunately, archaeological vestiges are very rare. Indeed, the example of the noria seems to be better documented than any other systems. Nonetheless, I show the elite gardens, its concept and layout evolution, was a stimulating element for hydraulic techniques development
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Vavakova, Blanka. "La science de la Nation ? : les paradoxes politiques de la logique économique." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999IEPP0009.
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La thèse vise à expliquer les changements en cours dans les relations 'Etat-science-industrie' en France et à en analyser les conséquences pour le système national de la recherche, et plus particulièrement pour les chercheurs. La politique de recherche, adoptée en 1982 par le gouvernement socialiste en constitue le point de départ. En voulant traduire la conviction largement partagée par les gouvernements d'autres pays de l'OCDE que la science devait jouer un rôle majeur dans la compétitivité des entreprises, et en conséquence des nations, elle s'est appuyée sur trois grands dispositifs: (i) la mobilisation de la recherche publique au service de l'industrie, (ii) la responsabilisation des régions en matière d'intégration de la recherche scientifique dans le développement régional, (iii) le renforcement du potentiel scientifique et technologique national par la promotion des programmes européens de coopération en R&D. Or, la signification et la portée de ses dispositifs doivent être appréciées en liaison avec deux processus parallèles qui les ont fortement marques, à savoir la décentralisation et l'ouverture du territoire national aux investissements étrangers. La devise républicaine "la science au service de la nation" qui caractérisait jusqu'alors les relations 'etat-recherche-industrie' en France, est en voie de perdre son sens face aux pouvoirs et aux intérêts des nouveaux acteurs politiques (régions et Europe) et économiques (les entreprises multinationales)This thesis seeks to explain changes underway in the relationship between the state, science and industry in France and to analyze the consequences of these changes for the national system of research and more particuiariy for researchers within it. Its point of departure is the research policy adopted by the French socialist government in 1982. In keeping with the view prevalent within the OECD at that time, that science plays a central role in the competitiveness of enterprises and hence of nations, this policy aimed at (i) the mobilization of public research in the service of industry, (ii) the creation of a role for France's regions in ensuring the integration of scientific research into the regional development process, and (iii) the stregthening of the national science and technology base through the promotion of European R&D cooperation programmes. The impact and significance of France's research policy, however, cannot be understood in isolation from two parallel processes that have shaped its outcome - decentralization and the opening to foreign investment it is thus, that the republican slogan "science in the service of the nation , which to then had characterized the relationship between the state, research and industry in France, has begun to loose its meaning as new political (regions, Europe) and economic actors (multinational corporations) emerge with their own power and interests
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Vaillies, Sophie. "Innovations stratégiques ou stratégies d'innovation : étude des processus communicationnels et des paradoxes dans la conception et la mise en place de projets technologiques "contractualisés"." Montpellier 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003MON30055.
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Qu'il soit d'architecture, pédagogique, sociale ou encore informatique, nous pouvons définir le projet comme un dessein, une intention, un désir partagé par un ensemble d'individus. Le projet est ainsi une construction sociale de la réalité, une rencontre entre les intentionnalités des acteurs et les données du monde. Dans cette conception, le projet doit alors tendre vers un consentement mutuel des différents acteurs pour l'aboutissement et la réussite de cette construction collective. Néanmoins, cette approche " constructiviste " des projets qui intègre le concept d'intention partagée, n'apparaît pas comme une évidence dès lors que nous nous plongeons empiriquement au cœur des projets technologiques. Chaque acteur de la situation ayant sa propre représentation du projet et ses propres enjeux, le travail de conception et de mise en place du futur outil n'est donc plus le résultat d'une production collective mais un véritable outil stratégique au service des intentionnalités de chacunThat it is of architecture, educational, social or data processing, we can define the project as an intention, a desire shared by a whole of individuals. The project is thus a social construction of reality, a meeting between the intentions of actors and the data of the world. In this conception, the project must then tend towards a mutual assent of the various actors for the result and the success of this collective construction. Nevertheless, this "constructivist" approach of the projects who integrates the concept of shared intention, does not seem an obviousness since we plunge ourselves empirically in the heart of the technological projects. Each actor of the situation, having his own representation of the project and his own stakes, the work of design and integration of the future tool is not thus any more the result of a collective production but a genuine strategic tool with the service of the intentions of each one
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Leichteris, Edgaras. "Model for measuring competitiveness of science and technology parks." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2011. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2011~D_20110927_103002-32899.
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Evaluation of the performance of science parks is an important topic in the context of Lithuania. The research object is the evaluation of Science and Technology Parks System in the contexts of the national innovation system and global competitiveness. In this work the general characteristics of the holistic innovation system model and new factors of competitiveness are identified, evaluation criteria are formed and a model to evaluate the competitiveness of Science and Technology Parks is created, which allows the use of these evaluation criteria in practice. This is the first time when Science and Technology Parks System in Lithuania has been examined as an inseparable element of the national innovation system, acting in complex political, economical and socio-cultural contexts. The evaluation criteria formulated allow wider observation of parks' current social functions to relate them to other state politics implemented, thus avoiding the duplication of funding and measures.Mokslo ir technologijų parkų efektyvumo vertinimas – Lietuvoje nuolat akcentuojama problema, tačiau mokslo ir technologijų parkų efektyvumas yra tik viena iš prielaidų globaliam mokslo ir technologijų parkų konkurencingumui, valstybės ekonomikos ir visuomenės transformacijai. Mokslinio tyrimo objektas - mokslo ir technologijų parkų sistemos vertinimas nacionalinės inovacijų sistemos ir globalaus konkurencingumo kontekstuose. Šiame darbe nustatomos holistinio inovacijų sistemos modelio pagrindinės charakteristikos, būdingi konkurencingumo veiksniai, suformuojami mokslo ir technologijų parkų sistemos konkurencingumo vertinimo kriterijai, sukuriamas konkurencingumo vertinimo modelis, leidžiantis šiuos vertinimo kriterijus pritaikyti praktikoje. Pirmą kartą mokslo ir technologijų parkų sistema nagrinėjama kaip neatsiejama nacionalinės inovacijų sistemos dalis ir jos posistemė, veikianti sudėtinguose politiniuose, ekonominiuose ir socialiniuose-kultūriniuose kontekstuose. Suformuoti mokslo ir technologijų parkų konkurencingumo vertinimo kriterijai leidžia plačiau pažvelgti į jų jau dabar atliekamas visuomenines funkcijas, jas susieti su valstybės įgyvendinamomis kitomis politikomis, taip išvengiant besidubliuojančio finansavimo ir priemonių.
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Sanguinetti, Véronique. "Adoption de l'Open Source par les organisations : articuler business model ouvert et implication dans les communautés." Thesis, Lyon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LYSE3067.
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L’Open Source est apparu dans l’industrie du logiciel au début des années 1980 sous le terme de logiciel libre (Von Hippel, 2001). Il est maintenant utilisé dans toutes les infrastructures digitales et certaines industries en dehors du logiciel ont commencé à s’y intéresser. L’Open Source est une forme avancée d’Open Innovation (Chesbrough, 2003, 2006, 2017) qui fédère autour de projets Open Source des organisations et des communautés externes (Von Hippel & Von Krogh, 2003), générant ainsi des formes nouvelles d’organisations et de business models. L’adoption organisationnelle de l’Open Source se décline en deux axes, un axe d’utilisation de méthodes, outils et composants Open Source et un axe d’implication dans ces communautés Open Source. Les organisations font face à des dilemmes d’ouverture pour l’adoption de l’Open Source et sous-estiment les rôles de leur implication dans les communautés et du degré d’ouverture de leur offre dans la performance de leurs business models. Nous nous concentrons sur les organisations utilisatrices et offreuses de solutions Open Source. L’objectif de la recherche est d’étudier pourquoi et pour quelles conséquences les organisations adoptent l’Open Source comme mode d’innovation. Nous montrons qu’envisager ces dilemmes d’ouverture sous la forme de paradoxes permet de trouver des voies vertueuses de développement et de performance (Lauritzen & Karafyllia, 2019; Smith & Lewis, 2011). Nous utilisons pour étudier ces business models le cadre d’analyse RCOV – Ressources, Compétences, Organisation, proposition de Valeur - (Demil & Lecocq, 2010; Warnier, Lecocq, & Demil, 2012).Notre design de recherche intègre deux approches. (1) Une première approche qualitative est basée sur 25 entretiens d'experts issus du monde académiques et du monde de l’entreprise. Elle nous permet d’explorer et d’améliorer les panoramas conceptuels des déterminants et facilitateurs principaux pour l’adoption de pratiques Open Source par les organisations informatiques et industrielles. (2) Une seconde approche quantitative est basée sur un échantillon de 307 managers et responsables d'entreprises. L’étude est menée avec et pour le CNLL, le Syntec-Numérique et Systematic-Paris-Region en 2017. L’étude nous permet d’identifier les déterminants et conséquences de l'utilisation de l'Open Source à partir de modèles d’équations structurelles. Nous montrons notamment qu’en fonction du type de business model, les facettes d’implication dans les communautés n’ont pas le même impact sur la performance perçue par les organisations. Dans tous les cas, l’implication de type formalisé qui est la plus choisie par les organisations est moins performante que d’autres formes d’implicationOpen Source appeared in the software industry in the early 1980s under the name “free software” (Von Hippel, 2001). It is now widely used by all digital infrastructures and companies outside the software industry have recently started showing an interest in this subject. Open Source is an extreme form of Open Innovation (Chesbrough, 2003, 2006, 2017) that creates relations between organizations and external communities around Open Source projects (Von Hippel & Von Krogh, 2003) and leads to new forms of organizations and business models. Organizational Open Source adoption can be assessed with two axes, one for Using Open Source methods, tools and components, and one for community involvement. Organizations face opening dilemmas and under-estimate the importance of community involvement and of open value proposition in their business model performance. We focus on organizations that use and/or offer Open Source solutions. The main goal of our research is to study why and with which consequences organizations adopt Open Source as an innovation path. We show that conceiving opening dilemmas in terms of paradoxes facilitates finding virtuous ways for development and performance (Lauritzen & Karafyllia, 2019; Smith & Lewis, 2011). We use the RCOV framework (Demil & Lecocq, 2010; Warnier, Lecocq, & Demil, 2012) to analyze these business models. Our research design integrates two approaches. (1) A first qualitative approach is based on 25 interviews with experts from the academic and business worlds. It allows us to explore and improve the conceptual panoramas of the main determinants and facilitators for the adoption of Open Source practices by software and industrial organizations. (2) A second quantitative approach is based on a sample of 307 managers and business leaders. The study is conducted with and for the CNLL, Syntec-Numérique and Systematic-Paris-Region in 2017. The study uses structural equation modeling and allows us to identify the determinants and consequences of the use of Open Source. In particular, we show that, depending on the type of business model, the facets of community involvement do not have the same impact on the perceived performance of organizations. In all cases, the formalized type of involvement that is most chosen by organizations is less effective than other forms of involvement
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Schirmer, Frank, and Michael Tasto. "Reflexive Power(s)? - Exploring the Dynamics, Contradictions and Paradoxes of Evolving Political Forms in Innovative Organizations.: Paper presented at the EGOS Colloquium 2009, Barcelona, July 2-4, 2009; Sub-theme 19: Power, resistance and hegemony in the contexts of organizational and institutional change." Technische Universität Dresden, 2010. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A28719.
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How do reflexive political forms within organizations and the design of innovation processes co-evolve? This paper focuses on emerging reflexive forms of power and authority, considered as regimes beyond pure domination (Clegg et al. 2006: 330 f.). We assume that preserving freedom and initiative of individuals, while not undermining the power of organizational top elites, is particularly essential for business success of organisations operating in high-tech, innovative sectors. Up to now, however, neither the development of related political forms within organisations, nor their intertwinements with innovation processes have been very well understood. Therefore this paper studies the linkages between innovation processes and reflexive political forms of organizations. More specifically, the paper aims to explore in detail the contested, antagonistic and paradoxical processes an organisation must undertake in designing a reflexive political form, a “political hybrid” (Clegg et al. 2006: 333), conducive to innovation capabilities and innovation processes in high-tech companies. Theoretical reasoning is underlined by first insights from a longitudinal case study, being part of a comparative case study program, focusing on the co-evolution of political forms and innovation process design in a SME in southern Germany. The paper contributes to the debate on power and innovation in several respects. First, we will propose a dynamic approach to exploring change and development of political forms within organisations. Most of the literature concerned with different political forms and political regimes within organisations is still centred on static typologies and its comparison (Clegg et al. 2006: 332). Second, we will examine the often neglected, contradictory processes shaping hybrid political forms in organisations. Third, we will conceptually and empirically explore linkages between innovation processes and emerging political hybrids within organizations. This study is, to the best of our knowledge, a research desideratum both in the literature on power and the literature on innovation processes (e.g. Hage and Meeus 2006; Poole and Van De Ven 2004; Vigoda-Gadot and Drory 2006; Clegg et al. 2006).
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Bärtl, Štěpán. "Švédská inovační politika: úspěch nebo paradox?" Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-338812.
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The Master's thesis "Swedish innovation policy: success or paradox?" focuses on Sweden's public policy for innovation during the past two decades. It, however, deviates somewhat from the conventional notion that places Sweden in the forefront when it comes to innovation. On the contrary this study follows the line of thought that believes there is an imbalance between the inputs to innovation in terms of R&D investments, which are truly outstanding, and the economic outputs that have been rather unimpressive and could be higher. Using the innovation systems perspective, a theoretical framework that has grown popular with academics and policymakers alike, the thesis analyzes Sweden's innovation policy, aiming to find out, whether the government really performs the activities, that the innovation systems theory views as vital. While it can be said that the innovation policy truly fulfills a wide range of activities that the theory views as key, there is still room for improvement in several areas, due to which the innovation paradox is still in operation, albeit we can view it less as an acute problem but a rather an opportunity, which policy has not been able to capitalize on.
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Hokamp, Freya Grosse. "The innovation paradox of family firms an innovation form-based analysis of "willingness factors"." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/104557.
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Family firms tend toinvest fewer resources in innovation than their non-family counterparts. While it is knownthat thisinnovation restraint results rather from afirm’s willingnessthan itsability to invest in innovation, there is little explanation as towhere specifically this insufficient willingness in family firms stems from. This thesis draws on this research gap and examines family-firm specificcharacteristics and their potential impact on willingness, so-called willingness factors. Besides theirrelevance, the willingness factors are being assessed in regard to closed and open innovation, sincethe form of innovation is thought to influence the willingness factors.Opposed to the prevailingresearch opinion, open innovation is not found to hinder willingnessin the context of family firms. In fact, thepractical findings demonstrate that it cannot be determined whether closed or open innovation are generally moreeffectiveto influence a family firm’s willingnessas the willingness factorsvary not only in terms of their general relevance but also regarding their relevanceto each other(their weighting).This study furthermore found, that this weightingchanges along with the awareness of the innovation forms’ benefits –which in practice are found to be only partly known. Yet, understanding the factors’ relevance and being aware of theinnovation form’s benefits is pivotal for family firms to choose the form of innovation that matches its willingness best. Educating and encouraging family firms to receive individual consultation can assist in overcoming innovation restraints and solvingthe innovation paradox.
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Stefan, Ioana. "Exploring Tensions between Appropriability and Openness to Collaboration in Innovation." Licentiate thesis, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-200375.
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Researchers, policy makers and practitioners alike have in recent years acknowledged a growing tendency towards opening up the innovation process by combining internal organizational assets with external actors’ resources. However, opening up the innovation process usually also entails revealing ideas, which may result in misappropriation. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate tensions related to the openness-appropriability relationship; this is done in three studies. The first study concerns a specific contextual factor that is likely to stress the openness-appropriability tensions: the location of external partners in innovation. The second study relates to the way managing openness-appropriability tensions affects performance, and the third study involves a theoretical discussion about the nature of the tensions occurring in the openness-appropriability relationship, i.e. paradoxical, dilemmatic, or dialectical. The first two studies apply quantitative methods, using survey data, while the third is a conceptual paper. The findings from the first study indicate that the use of different groups of appropriability mechanisms varies across various types of openness and that the location of external partners in innovation refines these linkages even more. The second study’s main takeaway is that the higher appropriability intensity, i.e. the extent to which appropriability mechanisms are put into practice, explains higher performance outcomes. The third study suggests that the tensions between openness and appropriability are more likely of paradoxical nature. From a theoretical perspective, findings indicate that paradoxical tensions between openness and appropriability may have a spatial dimension, and that these tensions should also be investigated in regards to performance. Managerial implications point out that opening up to innovation partners located abroad is likely to require more costly appropriability mechanisms.QC 20170126
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Jahanmir, Sara. "Three essays on entrepreneurship and innovation: the role of late adopers." Doctoral thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/19652.
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This dissertation presents novel topics in entrepreneurship and innovation. In today’ markets,
companies, especially those competing in red oceans, should look for new opportunities to remain
competitive. To explore such opportunities, they need to come up with breakthrough ideas, which
provide them with new market spaces and allow them to surpass competitors. One way of creating
blue oceans is to explore what the competitors are ignoring. One rich source of novel ideas, which has
been ignored by both researchers and practitioners, is late adopters. Late adopters are the last group of users who adopt a new product, service or technology. In this thesis, we explore this category of users and examine their potential as a source of innovative ideas and entrepreneurial opportunities. Chapter 1 of this thesis provides a brief introduction to the topics of entrepreneurship and diffusion of
innovation. In chapter 2, we conduct an exploratory study in the entrepreneurial eco system of
Cambridge. We aim at understanding the choices entrepreneurs make while making decisions, such as
listening to early vs late adopters. In the third chapter, we present a measurement scale to access
characteristics of late adopters, which facilitates the process of identifying them. Once we identify
them, we need a customized new product development method to involve this category of users in idea
generation. In chapter 4, we present the Lag-User Method. Through this method, we can benefit from
the insights of late adopters. Among others, our studies reveal that late adopters can be among any
demographic or social group. Their needs are different from those of other user categories. We find
that unlike lead-user, late adopters do not create prototypes and need coaching to come up with
incremental, really new or radical innovations. Insights from late adopters and laggards can help firms
explore weaknesses of their products/services and target common needs across different markets, (e.g. the need for sophisticated technology that is simple to use). This will enable firms to cut costs and
benefit from economies of scale while satisfying local needs and thereby increase their performance.
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Carolino, José Maria Castro Lopes Rodrigues. "Overcoming the “European Paradox”: The role of Regional Innovation Systems (RIS) in translating R&D investments into economic and employment growth." Master's thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/15526.
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The emergence of the so-called “European Paradox” shows that R&D investment is not maximally
effective and that increasing the scale of public R&D expenditures is not sufficient to generate
employment and sustained economic growth. Increasing Governmental R&D Investment is far from
being a “panacea” for stagnant growth. It is worth noting that Government R&D Investment does not
have a statistically significant impact on employment, indicating the need to assess the trade-offs of
policies that could lead to significant increases in government expenditure. Surprisingly,
Governmental R&D Employment does not contribute to “mass-market” employment, despite its quite
important role in reducing Youth-Unemployment. Despite the negative side-effects of Governmental
R&D Employment on both GVA and GDP, University R&D Employment appears to have a quite
important role in reducing Unemployment, especially Youth-Unemployment, while it also does not
have a downside in terms of economic growth. Technological Capacity enhancement is the most
effective instrument for reducing Unemployment and is a policy without any downside regarding
sustainable economical development. In terms of wider policy implications, the results reinforce the
idea that European Commission Research and Innovation policies must be restructured, shifting from a
transnational framework to a more localised, measurable and operational approach.
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Filipe, Maria Isabel Morais Cardoso Ribeiro. "Innovation in family businesses: a case study of GLSA." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/19493.
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Nowadays, in a world where competion for market presence is fearless, innovating becomes essential for companies to survive and thrive. Given that the majority of companies worldwide a family business, it is relevant to understand how do these businesses act with regards to innovation.
For many family business worldwide innovation is a distinction factor, that allows them to continue to exist throught different generations.
In this context, the main purpose of the present dissertation is to understand to what extent are in fact family businesses more innovative than the other kind of enterprises and their capacity to innovate. For that purpose the literature review will, on a first stage address the family business’ relation with innovation, analysing different positions in literature on both the willingness and the abilty of these type of companies to innovate.
On a second stage, a study on a family business – the GL company – is presented, in order to provide a practical example of an innovative family business. For the purpose of presenting an internal perspective on the company’s posture towards innovation, interviews were conducted to two senior family members - the CEO and a manager.
The qualitative analysis of the interviews has provided practical insights on how GL behaves towards innovation, by applying the key concepts exposed on the literature review to the company’s reality.
The theorectical aspects of the present thesis combined with GL’s case study intended to provide a comprehensive approach to the issues relating to the innovation processes within family businesses.Atualmente, num mundo onde a competição pela presença no mercado é destemida, a inovação torna-se essencial para as empresas sobreviverem e prosperarem. Dado que a maioria das empresas em todo o mundo são familiares, é importante entender como as mesmas agem no que diz respeito à inovação Para muitas empresas familiares em todo o mundo, a inovação é um fator de distinção, que lhes permite perlongar por várias gerações. Neste contexto, o principal objetivo da presente dissertação é entender até que ponto as empresas familiares são de fato mais inovadoras do que o outro tipo de empresa e a sua capacidade de inovar. Para esse fim, a revisão de literatura, num primeiro estágio, abordará a relação da empresa familiar com a inovação, analisando diferentes posições na literatura sobre a vontade e a capacidade deste tipo de empresa inovar. Num segundo estágio, é apresentado o estudo sobre uma empresa familiar - a empresa GL - para fornecer um exemplo prático de uma empresa familiar inovadora. Com o objetivo de apresentar uma perspetiva interna da postura da empresa em relação à inovação, foram realizadas entrevistas a dois membros da família de gerações diferentes. A análise qualitativa das entrevistas forneceu informações práticas sobre como a GL se comporta relativamente à inovação, aplicando os conceitos-chave expostos na revisão de literatura à realidade da empresa. Os aspetos teóricos da presente tese combinados com o estudo de caso da GL pretendem fornecer uma abordagem abrangente para as questões relacionadas aos processos de inovação nas empresas familiares.
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Stangner, Patricia, Diogo Bravo, Sara Gomes, and Sara Soares. "The value creation wheel– a meta-framework to create value for avantgarde, deimos engenharia, nextgeoss, and pangaea." Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/39619.
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In today’s rapidly changing environments, companies face emerging challenges in creating
value for their firm, shareholders, and stakeholders. In order to stay innovative, this work
introduces the application of the Value Creation Wheel (VCW), a meta-framework that
creates value for organizations facing challenges to stay competitive in local and global
markets. This work is concerned with the concept of value and value creation that leads to an
explanation of the VCW and a comparison with other frameworks. Four case studies illustrate
how the VCW was applied to successfully deal with real challenges firms face in different
industries: 1) Pangaea’s challenge to define and target a market, 2) Avantgarde’s challenge to
innovate brand experiences to acquire multinational clients, 3) NextGEOSS' challenge to
define a marketing strategy to attract new users to the platform, and 4) Deimos Engenharia’s
challenge to define a high potential market to expand a service.
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Felizardo, Márcio André Ferreira. "The value creation radar applied to the space engineering sector: the case of deimos engenharia." Master's thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/17217.
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This case study illustrates the application of the Value Creation Radar (VCR) to SenSyF, an Earth Observation (EO) system which was developed by Deimos Engenharia S.A. (DME), the Portuguese affiliate of Elecnor Deimos. It describes how a team of consultants adopted the VCR in order to find new market applications for SenSyF, selected the one with the highest potential, and defined a path to guarantee a sustainable market launch. This case study highlights the main challenges of bringing a technology-driven company closer to the market in the pursuit of long-term sustainability, while not compromising its technological capabilities
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Santos, Emanuel José dos. "Establishing a model of proactive spin-offs effectiveness on the basis of corporate entrepreneurship: (enterprise project)." Master's thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/14064.
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Corporate organizations face multiple strategic challenges that imply a paradox in strategic
decisions due to an equivalent need to both specialize on the core business and diversify
activities. Such apparent contradiction in terms requires innovative answer which we
believe lies in proactive spin-offs.
In order to explore this path, this thesis is set to establish a model of proactive spin-offs
effectiveness based on corporate entrepreneurship. The rational of the project is founded in
the literature review on corporate entrepreneurship, innovation, business unit model
organization and corporate spin-offs. The analysis reveals different ways organizations can
undertake to growth.
From a project perspective, we explored a specific non-strategic business line potential to
emerge within an organization as a successful strategic spin-off promoted by corporate
entrepreneurship. The analysis disclosed different ways organizations can undertake to
succeed in this growth strategy, from which one can infer a set of context-dependent
guidelines for future corporate spin-off policies.As Organizações enfrentam múltiplos desafios estratégicos que implicam decisões paradoxais por estarem ligadas a necessidades equivalentes para se especializarem no core business organizacional e simultaneamente diversificarem atividades. Esta aparente contradição requere uma resposta inovadora que acreditamos estar nos spin-offs proactivos. De modo a explorar este caminho, esta tese visa o estabelecimento de um modelo de spinoffs proactivos com base no empreendedorismo corporativo. O racional deste projeto baseia-se na revisão de literatura sobre empreendedorismo corporativo, inovação, modelos de organização empresarial e spin-offs corporativos. A análise revela que as organizações podem escolher diferentes formas de crescimento.Numa perspetiva de projeto, exploramos o potencial de uma linha de negócios específica não relacionada com o core-business da organização de modo a fazê-la emergir como um spin-off estratégico de sucesso promovido pelo empreendedorismo corporativo. A análise revela diferentes formas que as organizações podem optar para ter sucesso nesta estratégia de crescimento, sobre os quais se pode inferir um conjunto de orientações para futuras políticas de spin-offs corporativos.
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Huang, Mei-Ting, and 黃湄婷. "The Relationships among Leader-Subordinate Relational Identity of Subordinates, Paradox Mindset, Perceived Power Distance and Innovative Behavior." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/xxjy27.
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In the past, the relationships between leaders and subordinates were mostly discussed in terms of their interaction qualities, exchange relationships, or fits. However, in recent years some scholars have come up with the idea of “leader-subordinate relational identity,” arguing that previous studies have ignored the preconception of leaders or subordinates may also affect the behaviors of individuals in the organization. This study explored the influence of leader-subordinate relational identity, including instrumental identity and affective identity, on the innovative behavior in the perspective of subordinates; and discussed about the mediation effect of paradox mindset--a positive thinking and attitude ,explaining by social exchange theory; furthermore, probed into the moderating effect of subordinates' perceived power distance on the relationship between leader-subordinate identity and paradox mindset in paradox theory. In the study, we used convenience sampling method with a dyadic survey approach from various industries of Taiwan. The result showed: (1) subordinates' affective identity is positively associated with innovative behavior. (2) paradox mindset mediates the positive relationship between subordinates' affective identity and innovative behavior (3) subordinates' perceived power distance moderates subordinates' affective identity and paradox mindset. The implications, limitations and possible directions for future research were also indicated.
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SHIH, PEI-CHUAN, and 石珮絹. "Customer Service Paradoxes? Service Innovation Model in Auditing Divison –Integration of the Public Service-Dominant Logic and Service Design Approach." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/phe8gf.
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The role and function of audit divison in public sector is inexplicit to common people, and thus resulted in audited entities’ resistance facing auditing practice. Hence, it is necessary to review the service model of auditing, to set a innovative niche. This research applied the leading logic of public sector and seven keys of service structure introduced by Osborne et al. (2015): system, embed, relationships, value, innovation, co-production and experience, to conduct in-depth interview taking samples from employees from audited entities and auditing divison. This research further constructed static model through content analysis supported by word cloud, to build the service blueprint of service innovation for auditing divison through service design with analyzing pain points. Four propositions are brought up: 1) the auditing divison should conduct long-term schedule to gather data in separate years to improve the auditing scheduling, 2) the auditing divison should cohost expertise training with audited entities and conduct auditing technique transfer, 3) the auditing divison should mentor on internal control system and 4) introduce innovative service development such as benchmark learning.
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Sousa, Mafalda Oliveira Miranda de. "O paradoxo das energias renováveis na produção de electricidade: mercado ibérico." Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/17554.
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Nos últimos anos tem-se assistido a uma mudança, a nível global, da conjuntura económica e
industrial. Há cada vez mais, uma maior preocupação pelos impactos que o processo de
globalização e industrialização têm causado quer em termos climáticos quer em termos
ambientais. Nesse sentido, assiste-se a um processo de tentativa de reversão destes efeitos, o
processo de descarbonização. Este caracteriza-se essencialmente pela substituição de fontes de
energia poluentes por fontes de energia renováveis.
Contudo, e conforme será testado neste estudo, a aposta neste tipo de energias nem sempre
promove a estrutura de um mercado liberalizado, sobretudo quando falamos do mercado da
eletricidade. Ora, sendo esta forma de mercado em muito semelhante a um mercado de
concorrência, a aposta no sector de energias renováveis poderá trazer efeitos indesejáveis para o
mercado.
Assim, através da metodologia econométrica e do uso de Dados em Séries Temporais, será
analisada a evolução dos preços da eletricidade no mercado ibérico após o processo de
liberalização e de constituição do MIBEL e de que forma a geração de energia elétrica, através de
fontes de energia renovável, impacta no preço da eletricidade. Serão ainda utilizadas variáveis
cujo comportamento retrata as alterações do mercado após o processo de liberalização, medindo
também o seu impacto sobre o preço da eletricidade.
Este estudo conclui que, de facto, se verifica o paradoxo entre os ideais de um mercado
liberalizado e a conjuntura ambiental que leva ao recurso por fontes menos poluentes na geração
de eletricidade.The global economic and industrial environment has been changing, in recent years. There is a growing focus on the processes of globalization and industrialization and the environmental and climate concerns that they impact. In order to prevent and reverse those impacts, the economies are now adopting a new process, the decarbonization, which is characterized by the replacement of polluting energy sources by renewable energy sources. However, as it will be tested in this study, this type of strategy does not always promote the structure of a liberalized market, especially when considering the electricity market. Since this market is very similar to a competitive one, the renewable energies strategy could bring undesirable effects to this type of market. By using the econometric methodology with Time Series Data, this study will analyze the electricity prices behavior in Portugal and Spain after the liberalization and the MIBEL process. This methodology will also be used to study how renewable energy sources used for electricity generation affect electricity prices. Variables that represent the behavior of the market after the liberalization process will also be will be included in the model to measure their impact on the electricity prices. This study concludes that there is, in fact, a paradox between the ideals of a liberalized market and the environmental scenario that leads to the use of less polluting sources in the electricity generation.
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Silva, Muriel Halpern Pereira Faden da. "Navigating tensions in the context of enduring complexity." Doctoral thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/108176.
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The dissertation presents a new perspective on the management of tensions emerging from the co-existence of contradictory and central logics. In three studies, based on three in-depth case studies of a highly innovative law firm, we highlight the importance of understanding how organizations may help their teams and professionals manage tensions in their everyday work. Our findings contribute to extend current knowledge by revealing how individuals and teams may play an essential role ensuring that tensions are constructively managed, without the need of lessening underlying conflicts or structurally dividing logics.
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Mendonça, Ana Catarina Duarte de, Ana Filipa Caldeira Farinha Malheiro, and Miguel de Sousa Martins Paulino. "Value creation wheel applied to Jerónimo Martins Distribuição de Produtos de Consumo and Whymob." Master's thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/18622.
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This thesis focuses on the application of the Value Creation Wheel (VCW), a dynamic tool that
enables companies to solve problems and create value while encouraging the participation of
multiple stakeholders, both internal and external (Lages, 2016).
First, literature is revisited to gain insight about the concepts being explored in this thesis. Then,
it is introduced DIANA, VCW’s theoretical framework, and its main contributions to the fields
of strategic management, innovation management, and value creation. Finally, are presented
the findings from the application of TIAGO VCW’s practical tool at Jerónimo Martins
Distribuição de Produtos de Consumo (JMD) and Whymob.