Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management

1-21

Authors: Yusuf Arayıcı, Paul Coates

BIM adoption entails substantial challenges such as the operational skills and knowledge for the users and it is required to understand the commands, protocols and standards of the en-vironment in which they operate. Furthermore, different building types and applications or purpose of use of a BIM model add another layer of complexity in understanding the re-quired protocols and standards. Thus, the acquisition of this operational knowledge and skills is fundamental impediment that restricts the adoption of BIM if it is not rigorously considered. Effective development of the aforementioned skills and knowledge to exploit the new BIM technologies for lean practices is not trivial problem. On the contrary, it re-quires conceptual and process knowledge to conform and create organisational, inter-organisational quality and requirements, which are likely to be a mixture of both organisa-tion and project driven needs. In this paper, the learning experience derived from a KTP (Knowledge Transfer Partnership) project of BIM adoption and Implementation between the University of Salford and John McCall Architects (JMA) in Liverpool, UK is reviewed and discussed. During the project, many of the challenges of training members of staff to use newly introduced BIM tools were addressed. How members of staff were educated in the use of BIM is considered and evaluated within this paper.

51-70

Authors: Jahangir Yadollahi Farsi, Maryam Azizi, and Shervin Espahbod

The present paper aims to study the relations among variables of innovation, process maturity and firm’s performance. Along with this purpose, it first investigates the relationship between innovation and performance and second hypothesizes a positive relationship between process maturity and both innovation and performance. Several empirical studies examine these relations. The results from a questioner which was obtained from individual interviews in 253 firms were analyzed in order to identify the right variables for measurement. Then the causal relations of these variables were defined through Structural equation modeling (SEM) and AMOS 18. The results show that two variables of process maturity and innovation positively affect the efficiency of business environment. Innovation and performance are also under the effect of process maturity. One of the other results of this paper demonstrates that firm’s age moderates this effect.