Zong Dai

Toward a learning‐based view of innovation

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify learning‐based management innovation that is essential to the firms competitive advantage, and to develop a conceptual model of learning‐enabled innovation and research propositions for future research.Design/methodology/approach – This paper examines how four business firms develop their enterprise learning‐based innovation as a solution for a business crisis they face. The research methodology employs a fact‐based principle that combines quantitative and qualitative methods. Data were collected and analyzed at the corporate level of the subject organizations.Findings – The cases in this study exemplify that in business crises a firm can be successful by developing a learning‐based innovation that is different from the classical paradigm of technology‐enabled innovation.Research limitations/implications – The cases in this study are successful stories from the best practice in organizational learning. Even if learning‐enabled innovation successes were r...

Modeling Business Process Reengineering through Extended Petri Net

This article proposes an extended Petri net model based on EEPC, for the purpose of achieving the correctness and validity of qualitative and quantitative business process analysis, as warranted by the literature. The proposed model then is applied to a clinic process at a comprehensive hospital and the findings are reported.