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View article: Do we need a 6i Framework? Discussing the implications of Society 5.0 for the multi-level understanding of organisational learning
Do we need a 6i Framework? Discussing the implications of Society 5.0 for the multi-level understanding of organisational learning Open
Purpose: Society 5.0 is attracting attention as a new societal paradigm boasting a human-centric approach to innovation and development. The logic is that many decades of priority on technological innovation and less on social innovation h…
View article: Unraveling data from an idea management system of 11 radical innovation portfolios: key lessons and avenues for artificial intelligence integration
Unraveling data from an idea management system of 11 radical innovation portfolios: key lessons and avenues for artificial intelligence integration Open
In strategic and radical innovation, the degree of uncertainty and the amount of complexity is much higher compared to ‘business as usual’. Therefore, idea management systems are often used to support such innovation processes. An interest…
View article: Towards Society 5.0: Enabling the European Commission’s Policy Brief ‘Towards a sustainable, human-centric and resilient European Industry’
Towards Society 5.0: Enabling the European Commission’s Policy Brief ‘Towards a sustainable, human-centric and resilient European Industry’ Open
The concept of Society 5.0 – a superintelligent society of humans, nature and technology in sustainable balance – was launched in Japan in 2016. Danish business academics Prof Christian Nielsen and Prof Jacob Brix propose a systematic, sec…
View article: Metaverse and Society 5.0: Pivotal for Future Business Model Innovation
Metaverse and Society 5.0: Pivotal for Future Business Model Innovation Open
The area of interest is future business model innovation in Society 5.0. This is important as the transition from Society 4.0 to Society 5.0 is happening at an exponential pace driven by the Metaverse. Thus, the research question is: how s…
View article: Unraveling Data From an Idea Management System of 11 Radical Innovation Portfolios Key Lessons and Avenues for Artificial Intelligence Integration
Unraveling Data From an Idea Management System of 11 Radical Innovation Portfolios Key Lessons and Avenues for Artificial Intelligence Integration Open
In strategic and radical innovation, the degree of uncertainty and the amount of complexity is much higher compared to ‘business as usual’. Therefore, idea management systems are often used to support such innovation processes. An interest…
View article: Could we manage our strategic innovation projects better?:Unraveling unexpected waiting times as a key project uncertainty
Could we manage our strategic innovation projects better?:Unraveling unexpected waiting times as a key project uncertainty Open
Purpose: The paper explores unexpected waiting times in strategic innovation projects as a key project uncertainty. Empirical examples of unexpected waiting times in strategic innovation projects are investigated and related to the innovat…
View article: Guest editorial
Guest editorial Open
Interorganizational learning: where are we now and where is the research taking us?The motivation for opening the call for papers for this special issue came from the increase in scholarly attention toand growth in societal relevance of in…
View article: Critical realism and organizational learning
Critical realism and organizational learning Open
Purpose This study aims to investigate the implications of applying critical realism to the study of organizational learning. It considers critical realism as an alternate theoretical science foundation to the domains of empirical realism …
View article: Creating Opportunity Spaces for Co-Production
Creating Opportunity Spaces for Co-Production Open
This chapter builds a conceptual model for how inter-organizational relationships can be built to enable the creation of learning across administrative and organizational boundaries. The conceptual model is discussed in relation to the bod…
View article: Building capacity for sustainable innovation: A field study of the transition from exploitation to exploration and back again
Building capacity for sustainable innovation: A field study of the transition from exploitation to exploration and back again Open
In this study, I investigate how a European company with a 50-year history creating and producing polymer products completed an entire innovation project that was being implemented as part of a new, sustainability-oriented strategy. The ai…
View article: Evaluating the outcomes of co-production in local government
Evaluating the outcomes of co-production in local government Open
New Public Governance assumes that co-production leads to beneficial outcomes, such as increased efficiency and better citizen well-being. However, few empirical studies have documented these outcomes, and some have demonstrated that the a…
View article: Ambidexterity and organizational learning: revisiting and reconnecting the literatures
Ambidexterity and organizational learning: revisiting and reconnecting the literatures Open
Purpose The purpose of the study is to investigate how the processes of exploration and exploitation have developed in parallel in the literature of organizational ambidexterity and organizational learning, since James March published his …
View article: Organizing for inter-organizational learning in service networks
Organizing for inter-organizational learning in service networks Open
Purpose The purpose of this study is to consolidate existing research on ‘service networks’ and to frame this literature as a new ‘context for learning’. Research from inter-organizational learning is used to qualify this consolidation and…
View article: Innovation capacity building
Innovation capacity building Open
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose how a bottom-up creation of an ambidextrous organization can be enabled. By integrating research on “contextual ambidexterity” and “individual and organizational capacity building”, an “innov…
View article: Sensemaking in collaborative networks: creating and balancing activities in open business models
Sensemaking in collaborative networks: creating and balancing activities in open business models Open
The purpose of the study is to advance research on open business models as activity systems (Zott and Amit, 2010) in collaborative networks. We utilise Bradley’s (1995) theory of exchange behaviour to discuss how new joint activities can b…
View article: Business Development in Interfirm Collaborations: Proposing a theory of Social Creativity in Service Networks
Business Development in Interfirm Collaborations: Proposing a theory of Social Creativity in Service Networks Open
Recent research has determined that new perspectives concerning business development and innovation are needed in the service network literature. In response, we propose a conceptual, theory-building study that sheds light on the following…
View article: Exploring knowledge creation processes as a source of organizational learning: A longitudinal case study of a public innovation project
Exploring knowledge creation processes as a source of organizational learning: A longitudinal case study of a public innovation project Open
The purpose of the study is to reestablish the link between theories of organizational learning and knowledge creation – theories that in research, have been pursued as independent themes for almost two decades. Based on the literature rev…
View article: Evaluating the Effects of Co-Production Initiatives in Public Service Organizations
Evaluating the Effects of Co-Production Initiatives in Public Service Organizations Open
A change from New Public Management to New Public Governance (NPG) does not occur overnight. This forces public service organizations to develop new hybrid organizational forms as strategic response to the current situation. In NPG the bas…
View article: Exploring an Innovation Project as a Source of Change in Organization Design
Exploring an Innovation Project as a Source of Change in Organization Design Open
This study builds new empirically based theory on how the processing of an innovation project with a high degree of uncertainty induces change in key components in organization design. By using an embedded case study as our research strate…
View article: Exploring an Innovation Project as a Source of Change in Organization Design
Exploring an Innovation Project as a Source of Change in Organization Design Open
This study builds new empirically based theory on how the processing of an innovation project with a high degree of uncertainty induces change in key components in organization design. By using an embedded case study as our research strate…