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The Top Management’S Role In Innovation

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  • Cătălin George ALEXE

    (POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, Business Engineering and Management)

  • Cătălina Monica ALEXE

    (POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, Business Engineering and Management)

Abstract

Innovation has become a prerequisite for the ensuring of the success or even the survival of the business. Innovation cannot be acted singly, multidisciplinary teams are needed in several departments. It is necessary to achieve performance in the innovation management. Nowadays, to succeed and to offer value, the top management must be comfortable in a new world of rapidly changing technology. In some industries as the IT&C industry, the top management of a company must make difficult decisions about the application of new tools in a regulated environment where privacy is a critical concern. This paper aims to analyze how the top management of some companies in the IT&C industry in Romania performing work towards the awareness of the importance of innovation at the firm’s level and to create the strategic elements defining the innovation and how these activities are positioned in relation to the industry’s practices and the employees’ expectations.

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  • Cătălin George ALEXE & Cătălina Monica ALEXE, 2015. "The Top Management’S Role In Innovation," Network Intelligence Studies, Romanian Foundation for Business Intelligence, Editorial Department, issue 5, pages 7-13, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:cmj:networ:y:2015:i:5:p:7-13
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    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives

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