We (myself, Miha Škerlavaj and Marko Jaklič) have just received good news from Innovation: Management, Policy and Practice that our paper on the outcomes of Management Innovation was finally accepted for publication. While it took a while (this is the first paper, chronollogically, that I've written as part of my dissertation, we have to say that after the journal changed the submission system and the action editor, they've been quite fast. Here's the abstract:

The aim of this study is to investigate the innovation-performance relationship at the organizational level by empirically examining the role of management innovation in the link between technological innovation and financial performance. We adopt a view that is less present in the innovation literature and examine how technological innovations spur the need for new managerial solutions, which in turn result in improved firm performance. We apply a research methodology of testing our model via structural equation modeling on data gathered from 604 firms in three countries: Slovenia, Spain, and South Korea. The findings indicate that management innovation is the mechanism that enables firms to fully benefit from their technological discoveries in order to result in superior financial performance. The conclusions of the paper are related to shifting the view that presumes the crucial and almost exclusive importance of technological innovation for enhancing firm performance.

Within the week of Ljubljana University, I was very happy to receive the Best Young Professor Award for Extraordinary Teaching and Research Achievements, which was handed to me at the very nice event on December 1st at the main University building.

This year's special theme is HRM in start-ups, and the ABC accelerator was kind enough to allow us to work with their current batch (plus two more, MIPA HR agency and Creatrix). Gallery from the first meeting with students here.