This open access book explores the concept of Industry 4.0, which presents a considerable
challenge for the production and service sectors. While digitization initiatives are usually …

Radical innovation (RI) barriers are a complex phenomenon on which our understanding
remains rather limited. Through a systematic analytical review on the extant research on RI …

Purpose The belief that knowledge actually expands when it is shared has been deeply
rooted in the mainstream knowledge management literature. Although many organizations …

This study aims to investigate the development of 'marketing innovation'defined as the
implementation of new marketing practices involving significant changes in the design …

In this paper, we examine the managing of the full innovation process, from visioning to
commercialization, in extensive networks. By drawing on the IMP, strategic network, and …

Successful commercialization is of great importance to innovative firms, and the recent
literature has increasingly acknowledged that networks make a contribution not only to …

Purpose–The purposes of this paper are to develop a more complete understanding both of
the characteristics of innovation within retail firms and of the ways in which retailers perceive …

The research on research and development (R&D) networks is plentiful but network
relations in commercialization of innovations attract surprisingly little attention. This study …

Despite the importance of radical innovations (RI), few firms have the capability to develop
such innovations internally; success is increasingly linked with relationships and networks …

The challenge of managing radical innovation is partly about dealing with higher levels of
uncertainty as organisations seek to extend their exploration into new technological and …