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Trivializing the future: Cognitive dissonance and incumbents’ underinvestment in radical innovations on the example of cellular agriculture
No full textIncumbent organizations often struggle to manage the significant challenges posed by radical innovations, risking loss of market share, reduced profitability, and long-term success. While the question of why incumbents fail to adapt to radical innovations has been extensively discussed in the literature, the reasons for their frequent failure remain incompletely understood. Drawing on cognitive dissonance theory, the present paper proposes a new explanatory mechanism for incumbent’s failure to embrace radical innovations. It was hypothesized that 1) the confrontation with a radical innovation arouses cognitive dissonance in organizational members, with the dissonance being greater the more organizational members are negatively affected by the innovation, 2) to cope with the cognitive dissonance, organizational members trivialize the radicalness of a radical innovation, and 3) the trivialization of an innovation’s radicalness has a negative effect on organizational members’ willingness to invest in the innovation. To test the hypothesized relationships, a survey-based experiment was conducted with 380 participants from the meat industry using cellular agricultural products (cell-cultured meat and cell-cultured fish) as an example of a radical innovation. The results of a t-test and a structural equation model support the formulated hypotheses. An additional survey-based experiment provides further support for the proposed relationships. The findings contribute to a better understanding of the mental barriers that prevent incumbent organizations from investing in emerging radical innovations, thereby contributing to micro-level innovation research
Vechta Institute of Sustainability Transformation in Rural Areas (VISTRA) der Universität Vechta : Geschäftsordnung, Erste Änderung und Neubekanntmachung
No full textBachelorstudiengang Combined Studies Teilstudiengang Wirtschaft und Ethik : Auslaufordnung (AMBl 15/2024, 07/2023, 19/2022, 33/2021, 12/2021, 67/2020, 62/2020, 56/2020)
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Masterstudiengang Soziale Arbeit : Übergangsordnung zur Prüfungsordnung (AMBl 16/2018, 10/2020)
No full textOrdnung über die Erstellung des Senatsvorschlags für die Ernennung oder Bestellung der hauptberuflichen und nebenberuflichen Mitglieder des Präsidiums der Universität Vechta
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Impulspapier ; entstanden im Rahmen des MWK-geförderten Projektes „Unser Fleisch von morgen? Zukunftsdiskurse zu kultiviertem Fleisch“
No full textKultiviertes Fleisch gilt als potenziell wegweisende Technologie, um ökologische Belastungen, Tierleid und Ressourcenverbrauch der konventionellen Fleischproduktion zu reduzieren und zugleich neue Wege für Ernährungssicherheit, Gesundheit und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung zu eröffnen. Zugleich stehen der Technologie noch bedeutende technische Hürden, gesellschaftliche Vorbehalte und ökonomische Risiken gegenüber, die ihre zukünftige Rolle im Ernährungssystem maßgeblich beeinflussen. Das vorliegende Impulspapier beleuchtet diese Chancen und Herausforderungen und formuliert Impulse für Wissenschaft, Politik und Landwirtschaft mit Blick auf eine faktenbasierte, transparente und zukunftsorientierte Gestaltung dieser Technologie.Cultured meat is considered a potentially pioneering technology to reduce the environmental impacts, animal suffering, and resource use associated with conventional meat production, while simultaneously opening new pathways for food security, health, and economic development. At the same time, the technology faces significant technical challenges, societal reservations, and economic risks that will strongly influence its future role in the food system. This impulse paper examines these opportunities and challenges and provides recommendations for science, policy, and agriculture with a view to a fact-based, transparent, and forward-looking development of this technology
analyzing state and non-state actors and their interrelationships in international relations, focusing on strategic surprise, terrorism, and cyberterrorism
No full textThis thesis comparatively analyzes the strategic intelligence threat posed by radical non-state actors (i.e., Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah) to state actors (i.e., the United States and Germany). It links different critical radical Islamist narratives and terrorism techniques, including cyberterrorism, to strategic surprise and asymmetric warfare while examining strategic security threats at the geostrategic level and their linkage to the geostrategic terrorism map. The study reviews U.S. intelligence failures and structural gaps, compares them to Germany’s counterterrorism policies under selected strategic criteria, and explores denial and deception techniques impacting the balance of power in international terrorism and kinetic warfare. Thematic and case study analyses address security and intelligence challenges, guided by the relevant research questions, that address and map the factors enabling radical non-state actors such as Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah to become intelligence and strategic threats to state actors. Additionally, non-state actors’ use of advanced terrorism methodologies, the enhancement of the international terrorism battlefield, and the threats posed by severe cyberterrorism offenses to the global community are noted as part of the importance and strategic core of this research
