... efforts in nurturing: (1) its organizational and cultural nature; (2) new managerial skills and e-leadership. These factors activate DT as an accelerator of (3) production processes and service provision and (4) competitive strategies. Practical implications Our findings underscore critical practical...

... Licensed re-use rights only Technological acceptance Technological readiness Innovative technologies Tourism employees Smart tourism Competitiveness One of the major challenges facing the tourism industry in terms of human resources is the difficulty in finding qualified people for both...

...Patient Rambe; Peter Khaola Purpose The pre-eminence of innovation and technological transfer in promoting agricultural productivity and competitiveness in developing countries is widely acknowledged. However, the disparate streams of literature on productivity and competitiveness have explored...

... or market share than product innovation (Cheng et al., 2010). While product innovation offers strategic advantages in the marketplace, process innovation is an equally important source of competitive and strategic advantages. Indeed, one significant advantage of process innovation over product...

...Paolo Pratali This paper addresses the problems inherent in identifying technological innovations that can improve company competitiveness with the ultimate aim of increasing the value of a specific enterprise. A model is proposed that, starting with the competitive weight of a technological...

... and technologies. This has led firms in some sectors to move to a new paradigm of competitiveness, namely solutions innovation. This paper examines the challenges facing the computer and electronic equipment sector and the movement to a solutions innovation paradigm. Companies in the C&EE industry...

...D. Keith Denton Innovation has always been at the centerpiece of competitiveness. Experimentation, exploration and a drive to maximize resources is as essential for companies as it is for nations and our whole species. Many of the lessons for how to best innovate can be drawn from nature herself...