European Journal of Innovation Management: Volume 7 Issue 4

Employee creativity and the role of risk

Todd Dewett

Creative efforts and creative outcomes are identified as distinct in employee creative performance. It is argued that an employee's willingness to take risks is an important…

Intuition and pharmaceutical research: the case of AstraZeneca

Mats Sundgren, Alexander Styhre

The role of intuition receives little attention in the literature on organizational creativity. This paper describes a study of the role of intuition and its implications for…

A technology acceptance model of innovation adoption: the case of teleworking

Manuela Pérez Pérez, Angel Martínez Sánchez, Pilar de Luis Carnicer, María José Vela Jiménez

This paper develops a model of teleworking adoption based on the principles of the technology acceptance model. The framework integrates three categories of factors influencing on…

The pattern of development and diffusion of breakthrough communication technologies

J. Roland Ortt, Jan P.L. Schoormans

Diffusion of many successful communication technologies, like telephony and television technology, follows an almost perfect S‐shaped curve. This curve implies that, after their…

The development and validation of the organisational innovativeness construct using confirmatory factor analysis

Catherine L. Wang, Pervaiz K. Ahmed

The role of organisational innovativeness, or innovative capability, in attaining competitive advantage has been widely discussed. Most research examines innovation activities and…

Basic propositions for the study of the technological innovation process in the firm

Mariano Nieto

This paper deals with the characteristics of two basic elements for the study of innovation in the firm: the concept of technological innovation, which is defined as a flow…

Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology

Serdar S. Durmusoglu