Models of Innovation Types and Processes

Socio-Technical Knowledge Management and Epistemological Paradigms: Theoretical Connections at the Individual and Organisational Level

by Matthew Jelavic

Jelavic, M. (2011). Socio-technical knowledge management and epistemological paradigms: Theoretical connections at the individual and organisational level. Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management, 6(1), 1 – 16.

This paper provides an evaluation of the literature pertaining to the autopoietic, connectionist, and cognitivist... more This paper provides an evaluation of the literature pertaining to the autopoietic, connectionist, and cognitivist epistemological paradigms. These paradigms exist at the individual and organisational level through diametrically opposed functionalist versus interpretive and integrative socio-technical knowledge management perspectives. The alignments of individual and organisational epistemologies are essential to the effectiveness of a knowledge management system. Knowl-edge management should consider the roots of knowledge theoretically in order to share or man-age knowledge dissemination successfully in organisations. The term ‘knowledge sharing’ has been emphasised and discussed comprehensively through its epistemological influential factors. This paper concludes the development of a Knowledge Management Epistemological Synthesis Model (KM-ES Model) and a comprehensive discussion and conclusion section focussing on the implications of epistemological influences on the knowledge management system of an organisa-tion. The results from this study provide both researchers and academicians with a clear under-standing of the interplay between epistemologies and a foundation for establishing an effective organisational knowledge management system.

Keywords: socio-technical, knowledge management, knowledge sharing, epistemology, cognitiv-ist, connectionist, autopoietic, functionalist, interpretive, KM-ES Model

Knowledge Management Views in Eastern and Western Cultures: An Integrative Analysis

by Matthew Jelavic

Jelavic, M., & Ogilvie, K. (2010). Knowledge management views in eastern and western cultures: An integrative analysis. Journal of Knowledge Globalization, 3(2), 51 – 69.

Traditional eastern and western views of knowledge continue to influence the knowledge management practices in today’s... more Traditional eastern and western views of knowledge continue to influence the knowledge management practices in today’s global workplace. Based on these views, several dominant theories have emerged on how to best manage in the international work environment. This research illustrates contradictions in these theories and extracts a new perspective from the dynamic literature stream. This innovative perspective provides an opportunity to leverage cultures and relationships holistically for effective knowledge transfer and cross-cultural understanding, and hence for effective management

Keywords: Knowledge, Culture, International Management, Knowledge Management, Hofstede Framework

Multidisciplinary Technical Teams: A Case Study

by Matthew Jelavic

Ogilvie, K., & Jelavic, M. (2009). Multidisciplinary technical teams: A case study. Canadian Manager, 33(3), 18 – 19.

Interorganizational Macrocultures in the North American Automotive Manufacturing Industry

by Matthew Jelavic

Jelavic, M., & Ogilvie, K. (2009). Interorganizational macrocultures in the North American automotive manufacturing industry. Canadian Manager, 34(2), 20 – 21.

Maslow and Management: Universally Applicable or Idiosyncratic?

by Matthew Jelavic

Jelavic, M., & Ogilvie, K. (2010). Maslow and management: Universally applicable or idiosyncratic? Canadian Manager, 34(4), 16 – 17.

Globalization, Knowledge Workers and the Expanding European Union: A Lesson for North America?

by Matthew Jelavic

Jelavic, M., & Ogilvie, K. (2010). Globalization, knowledge workers and the expanding European Union: A lesson for North America? Canadian Manager, 35(1), 26 – 27.

Social Network Mapping and Analysis in the Global Aerospace Community

by Matthew Jelavic

Ogilvie, K., & Jelavic, M. (2010). Social network mapping and analysis in the global aerospace community. Canadian Manager, 35(2), 20 – 21.

Management Consulting: Understanding the Process Using Concepts in Neuroscience

by Matthew Jelavic

Vincenti, M., & Jelavic, M. (2011). Management consulting: Understanding the process using concepts in neuroscience. Canadian Manager, 35(4), 22 – 23.

Competence Management in High-Technology Organizations

by Matthew Jelavic

Jelavic, M. (2011). Competence management in high-technology organizations. Canadian Manager, 36(1), 21 – 22.

Tacit Knowledge and Personal Competitive Advantage: An Autopoietic Framework for Knowledge Management in Human Resources

by Matthew Jelavic

Jelavic, M. (2011). Tacit knowledge and personal competitive advantage: An autopoietic framework for knowledge management in human resources. Canadian Manager, 36(3), 22 – 23.

The Neurobiology of Experience: Memory-Prediction and Its Role in the Management Decision-Making Process

by Matthew Jelavic

Jelavic, M., & Vincenti, M. (2012). The Neurobiology of Experience: Memory-Prediction and Its Role in the Management Decision-Making Process. Canadian Manager, 36(4), 26 – 27.

The Brain Drain: Implications for Regional Economic Integration in the Expanding European Union.

by Matthew Jelavic

Jelavic, M. (2012). The brain drain: Implications for regional economic integration in the expanding European Union. In B. Chapalet, & M. Le Berre (Eds.), Producing New Knowledge on Innovation Management. Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 99 – 111.

This paper provides a review and conceptual analysis of issues surrounding regional economic integration and the... more This paper provides a review and conceptual analysis of issues surrounding regional economic integration and the potential for inter-country brain drain within the expanding European Union (EU). As the EU expands eastward, it absorbs millions of highly skilled knowledge workers and opens opportunities for western European organisations to capitalise on this workforce. The migration of these skilled workers is a macro-exercise in eastern European knowledge management, and could have far-reaching implications at the regional, industry and organisational levels. This paper explores the context and implications of knowledge worker movement across fading borders.

Innovating User Value: The Interrelations of Business Model Innovation, Design (Thinking) and the Production of Meaning – A Status-quo of the Current State of Research

by Jan Schmiedgen

Masters Thesis - 2011

We live in a hyper-competitive world, where whole industries either shift towards services or become obsolete due to... more We live in a hyper-competitive world, where whole industries either shift towards services or become obsolete due to new market entrants, technologies or even social practices. A world, where permanent interactions with customers, fast time-to-market, and the ability to innovate »right« (e.g. the right thing or value) are the key to corporate success. On that score the business sphere isn't getting tired of emphasizing the need for strategic innovation (which means »creating superior customer value«, business model innovations or even the disruption and creation of new markets).

This paper uncovers some of the often overlooked links of design (design thinking, design- driven innovation and service design) to strategic innovation through the lens of »customer value«. It will do so by ...

1) Disenchanting the big corporate rhetoric on above claims by showing that prevailing and too one-sided understandings of strategy and innovation, rather reinforce than escape old industry paradigms.

2) Examining designs still undervalued contributions to strategy-making by approaching business challenges with a user/value-centric and radical service logic.

3) Showing that every dimension of strategic innovation culminates in the concept of perceived user value and meaning, which gets reviewed in detail (dimensions, forms, proper- ties), especially with regards to constructing value propositions.

4) Arguing that the current service design and business model innovation discourses cannot be negotiated separately, as they may be good methodological complements.

So when speaking about the innovation of value for the customer, the paper argues, the above stated and seemingly separated fields intersect. Therefore their most apparent systemic connections and the facilitation of value creation by design are outlined and discussed.

Enterprise Innovation Model

by Diego Vallarino Navarro

Este estudio trata de explicar por qué algunas empresas de América Latina son innovadoras y registran niveles altos de... more Este estudio trata de explicar por qué algunas empresas de América Latina son innovadoras y registran niveles altos de competitividad. La respuesta que se encontró fue la implementación exitosa de tres disciplinas (Gestión del conocimiento, Innovación y Market Focus), que unidas se potencian una a la otra creando un espiral de crecimiento y maximizando su competitividad

Prospettive di analisi per l’innovazione nei canali di marketing

by Fabio Musso

Paper presented at the VII Annual Società Italiana di Marketing Conference: Marketing & Sales oltre la crisi. Ancona, 23-24 September 2010.

This work aims at contributing to a vision of innovation in marketing channels, which is not limited to a few specific... more This work aims at contributing to a vision of innovation in marketing channels, which is not limited to a few specific aspects of innovation or to the single stages of the channel, and which considers the channel as a whole.
The analysis will be carried out following three different perspectives: a technological perspective, focusing on the influence of technology on the interactions among channels members and with the final demand; a structural perspective, referring to what new channel configurations may occur and; a relational perspective, focusing on the changes in vertical relationships between firms.
The analysis aims to provide a conceptual framework on the basis of which future investigations and insights can be conducted to capture the extent and effects of the changes that occur, as a result of innovation

Lifting the Hood of the Technological Evolution Process for Web Technologies

by Adrian Yeow

Cost Estimation and the Viability of Metal Foams

by Elicia Maine

Advanced Engineering Materials 2(4), 205-209.  co-authored with M. Ashby

O PROTOCOLO DE QUIOTO E O FUTURO DOS MODELOS DE INOVAÇÃO TECNOLÓGICA

by Alexildo Vaz

Co-authored with JOÃO ALENCAR OLIVEIRA JÚNIOR. Presented at Ecolatina, 2006, Belo Horizonte (MG), Brasil.

Technological innovation fostering is in Kyoto Protocol (1997) under the assumption that it is able to support green... more Technological innovation fostering is in Kyoto Protocol (1997) under the assumption that it is able to support green house gases (GHG) reduction by the establishment of funding, insurance and transfer of technology aligned to sustainable development. According to Schumacher sustainable development definition this might be possible if there is a change in the present techno-economic paradigm, which is based on non-renewable fossil fuels. The purpose of this article is to show possibilities to achieve Kyoto objectives without paradigm change, but changing the present innovation model. Contrary to current internal and competition driven model – able to create incremental innovations – establish an open model based on national innovation platforms, focused on energy efficiency, able to generate radical innovations. In order to reach such purpose, the current innovation models (technology push and market pull) are briefly analyzed and the efficiency of a “legal push”, the use of legal mechanisms to foster innovation,  is put under suspicion.

Innovations - How enterprises produce and establish new knowledge (in German)

by Wolfgang Scholl

Scholl, W. (2007). Innovationen – Wie Unternehmen neues Wissen produzieren und etablieren. In H. Hof & U. Wengenroth (Hrsg.), Innovationsforschung – Ansätze, Methoden, Grenzen und Perspektiven (S. 271-300). Münster: LIT. (Innovations - How enterprises produce and establish new knowledge)

Zusammenfassung und Ausblick
Mit dem vorgelegten Modell evolutionärer Wissensproduktion wird ein umfassender... more Zusammenfassung und Ausblick
Mit dem vorgelegten Modell evolutionärer Wissensproduktion wird ein umfassender Blick auf Innovationen möglich. In der Innovationsliteratur wird in der Regel immer nur ein einzelner Mechanismus diskutiert und empirisch untersucht. Besonders häufig geschieht das für den wirtschaftlichen Wettbewerb, wo Nelson & Winter (1982) ein evolutionäres Standard¬modell etabliert haben, das die ökonomische Diskussion bis heute bestimmt. Das Lernen durch Führung wird in der Literatur zu Promotoren oder „Champions“ sehr breit betrachtet, hier allerdings nicht als evolutionäres Modell der Wissensproduktion. Schließlich ist noch häufig das kreative Problemlösen untersucht worden, und auch hier wurde ein evolutionäres Modell dieses Prozesses entwickelt (Staw, 1990). Vielleicht besonders erwähnenswert ist auch noch der makro-soziologische Entwurf von Gerhard Lenski (1970), in dem ein evolutio-näres Modell der globalen geschichtlichen Entwicklung ausführlich dargestellt und belegt wurde. An diesen Beispielen wird deutlich, dass es sich bei dem evolutionären Modell der Wissensproduktion bzw. der Anpassung von Systemen an ihre Umwelt keineswegs nur um eine abstrakte Metaphorik handelt, sondern dass dieses Modell von einzelnen Fachdisziplinen für einzelne Prozesse dieses Gesamtmodells als sehr nützlich betrachtet wird. Insofern ist der hier vorgelegte Gesamtentwurf eines Modells evolutionärer Wissensproduktion, der von der individuellen über die interaktive und die organisationale bis hin zur gesellschaftlichen Ebene reicht und dabei jeweils verschiedene Mechanismen beschreibt, als ein Diskussions- und For-schungsangebot für die Beschreibung und Erklärung von Innovationsprozessen in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft zu sehen.
Des Weiteren sollte aufgezeigt werden, dass die Metatheorie mit allgemeinen Hypothe-sen verbunden ist, die sich an den einzelnen Mechanismen auf den verschiedenen Systemebe-nen untersuchen lassen. Ein zentraler Faktor für das Gelingen oder Misslingen von Innovatio-nen ist dabei die Wahl der Art der Einwirkung auf andere Menschen. Wird Macht ausgeübt unter Missachtung und Verletzung ihrer Interessen, dann schadet dies nicht nur den Betroffe-nen, sondern auch der Produktion von neuem Wissen. Machtausübung beschränkt in der Re-gel die Variation, verzerrt die Selektion und behindert die Retention, sofern die entsprechen-den Ideen vom Machthaber nicht gewünscht sind. An zwei Mechanismen, dem Lernen durch Kommunikation und dem organisationalen Lernen, wurde empirisch gezeigt, dass diese These sich bewährt und dass Einflussnahme anstelle von Machtausübung die bessere Alternative ist.
Diese Forschungslinie soll in unserem neuen, von der VolkwagenStifung geförderten Projekt fortgesetzt werden. Da Machtausübung vor allem dann auftritt, wenn Konflikte be-fürchtet werden oder schon aufgetreten sind, sollen Konflikte und die Art ihrer Handhabung als Machtausübung oder Einflussnahme bei Innovationsprozessen näher untersucht werden. Dabei sollen Konflikte nicht nur detaillierter untersucht werden als bisher, sondern es sollen neben unternehmerischen Innovationen auch wissenschaftliche Neuerungen vergleichend un-tersucht werden und dies in zwei Ländern mit unterschiedlichen nationalen Innovationssyste-men, nämlich in Deutschland und Frankreich. Wir erwarten, dass das Modell der evolutionä-ren Wissensproduktion sowie die Unterscheidung von Machtausübung und Einflussnahme weiterhin ein guter Wegweiser für unsere Forschungen sind.