European Journal of Innovation Management: Volume 5 Issue 1

Situations for innovation management: towards a contingency model

Anders Drejer

The need for firms to become more innovative has probably never been greater. Today concepts such as the new economy, new technologies, hyper‐competition and clock speed are used…

Innovation as the core competency of a service organisation: the role of technology, knowledge and networks

Jay Kandampully

Services lie at the very hub of the economic activity of all societies, and interlink closely with all other sectors of the economy. The exponential growth of services…

Strategic issues in managing innovation’s fuzzy front‐end

Jongbae Kim, David Wilemon

A product is more likely to be successfully developed and marketed when the “upfront or fuzzy front‐end (FFE)” activities are understood and carefully managed. A framework is…

An adopter‐centered approach to understanding adoption of innovations

Rex Eugene Pereira

Introduces an adopter‐centered, process‐oriented model with which to explore behavioral processes related to technology adoption. This approach enables us to learn about adoption…