Business innovation

This book of proceedings collects fifty-one papers presented at the inaugural Colloquium of Administrative Science and Technology (CoAST 2013) event, held at Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.

This volume presents the refereed papers given at the International Conference on Managing the Asian Century, held in Singapore in July 2013.

This book, written entirely by faculty at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St.

Southeast Asia has been an emerging frontier for internet technology startups, with talent and capital flooding into the region's technology markets in recent years.

At a time when the limits on human progress are ever-decreasing and the consequences of human actions have never been so critical to predict and manage, the responsible nature of innovations has acquired a whole new importance.

When analyzing 7-Eleven Japan's advanced and innovative management style, the authors of this book highlight the existence of the "e;integrated information system"e;.

This pioneering book offers a unique constellation of essays focused on the important social and economic changes affecting educational institutions in China.

New developments in bio- and nanotechnologies and also in information and communication technologies have shaped the research environment in the last decade.

Focusing on the IT and high-tech electronic industries, this book provides an analysis of foreign small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Taiwan and Mainland China.

Today's business environment is characterized by hypercompetition and the development of the Internet.

Most of the large economies in the world are already dominated by services.

This book is the first publication that combines the principles of business process management with strategic IT planning; the result being a groundbreaking work on strategic IT and process planning.

Over the past decade, innovative technologies have resulted in an extensive growth of new services.

Innovation is widely recognized as a major source of modern productivity growth.

Focusing on issues in the management and governance of IT innovation, this book links concepts and theories of academic learning to actual real-life scenarios from the successful experiences of public and private sector organisations in Singapore.

All over the world, open innovation is emerging and requires much more interactions between different actors with different organizational cultures: large firms and SMEs (i.

This book provides a brief overview of the recent trends in innovations.

This is the third of a series of research volume of papers from the Business and Information Technologies global research network.

The book discusses the effects of artificial intelligence in terms of economics and finance.

This book explains the strategic behaviors of platform firms on the global market, drawing on extensive research on the mobile communication systems, semiconductor equipment, personal computer, and automobile electronics industries.

This book explores the social and economic impact of the sharing economy- of taxis, apartments, and other goods and services- in China, and how the sharing economy can allow for supply-side economic reform.

This book points out that "e;Internet"e; is the means, and the digital economy is the result.

The book presents a comprehensive and incisive analysis of Structural transformation which is among the most relevant and crucial themes of contemporary economics.

This book adds to the discussion from Volume 1 by providing insights and stimulating new thinking about the changing nature of services and marketing, service work and workers, and service experiences during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, particularly focusing on services marketing.

This book is dedicated to the analysis of the entrepreneurship in successful companies by presenting and comparing a series of case studies in the Asia-Pacific where many new companies have been growing successfully in the 21th century.

This book provides some new ideas on the conceptualization of a shift in technological paradigm, and it explores in depth the relevance of this concept for research on innovation systems.

The casebook aims at providing the latest case materials for researchers and students who are keen to learn about the consumerization and transformation effects of digital technology.

With the advent of the Internet, and the resulting interconnection within a city and among cities, internet innovation has led to a number of important applications in economic and social fields, helping traditional industries upgrade and organizations gain new core competencies, thereby engendering new business models and new industries.

Service innovation is a concept that, for the last decade, has received increased attention both among academics as well as practitioners.

'All power to the imagination' is a famous slogan.

Digital innovation - involving the Internet, its content and ecosystems of global users - is a rapidly evolving way of creating strategic and societal value.

Cryptocurrency market has been growing fast since its emergence in recent years.

Chinese enterprises have relied on importing technology and imitation as their main technology strategies in the past.

Based on a new perspective, this book explores the theory of internationalization of technological innovation in four aspects, namely strategy, organization, resource allocation and environment, and analyzes the development rules and key points of management in the internationalization of technological innovation for Chinese firms.

The book studies the interplay between open innovation and knowledge management issues in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

The concept of open innovation (OI) has become a very popular topic during the last decade, with increasing number of SMEs embracing OI practices to gain competitive advantage.

Using a combination of theoretical analysis and case studies, this book analyses the theoretical issues - concept and type of independent innovation, and the practical issues - construction of institutional system which is in favor of independent innovation.

In the current environment of severe global competition, an uncertain business future as well as shorter product life cycles, companies have a pressing need to develop new products and businesses rapidly.

The management of technological innovation is both an art, as well as a science; the process involves the know-how and technological core skills to deliver the functionality on the one hand, and (with an ear on the ground) the ability to identify changes in technologies to come up with new innovations on the other.

This multi-volume set covers a wide range of topics on innovation, which are all of great interest to academics, policymakers, university administrators, state and regional economic development officials, and students.

This book discusses practical issues of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Handbook of the Management of Creativity and Innovation: Theory and Practice is a collection of theories and practices for the effective management of creativity and innovation, contributed by a group of European experts from the fields of psychology, education, business, engineering, and law.

What is the profile to excel and lead in an open innovation environment, within and across organizational boundaries?

Business Games for Management and Economics: Learning by Playing presents board and video business games which combine teamwork with individual decisions based on computer models.

This book analyzes various aspects of enterprise information systems (EIS), including enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, supply chain management systems, and business process reengineering.

Traditionally, innovation has been considered difficult to manage, as it occurs through contingent discoveries and inventions.

The 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Innovation emphasizes on natural resources technology and management to support the sustainability of mankind.

This edited volume presents current perspectives on the innovative use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as an integral part of the changing nature of work.

This book emphasizes the need for new directions and approaches for social and economic development in the emerging nations of the Asia-Pacific region through the use of Smart Technologies.

This book includes research presented at the Global Chinese Management Studies Conferences held in Singapore between 2011 and 2014.