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Creativity and Entrepreneurship: Potential Partners or Distant Cousins?
No full textCreativity and entrepreneurship, like innovation, have been recognized as important contributors to a nation’s economic growth. Creativity plays an important role in the fuzzy front end of a firm’s innovation process and also in corporate venturing processes, but the relationship between creativity and entrepreneurship to a large extent has not explicitly been examined. This exploratory conceptual paper briefly reviews the separate bodies of research on creativity and entrepreneurship, identifying similarities and differences in constructs and applications and identifying implications for business and for management education. We then propose some research propositions and directions for future research to investigate potential synergies of creativity and entrepreneurship and to progress the distinctness of each notion in landscapes of innovative firms
Impact of personal style on change experience
No full textResistance to change and the experience of individuals during change is increasingly of interest to those responsible for implementing change in organisations. This paper examines the experience of change at the individual level within a large corporation, and seeks to identify possible reasons for differing perspectives on change both before and after implementation based on an individual’s personal style. The results show that the extent to which individuals have a positive prior outlook is not influenced on the whole by an individual’s personal style. In relation to an individual’s assessment of a new way after change has been implemented however, personal style has been shown to have significant impact. In particular, the level of emotional reaction and short term focus of an individual presents challenges for anyone implementing change. Whilst there is little that can be done to change an individual’s personal style, it is critical that those responsible for the implementation of change recognise the increased likelihood of resistance from those with a higher level of emotional reaction, and those who lack a longer term focus, and identify possible strategies to manage this situation
Towards a New Conceptualisation of Clusters
No full textClusters have emerged as an industrial organisational form recognised as having a superior ability than that of single firms operating in isolation to foster national economic development and growth. However, there is little agreement about the way to define industry clusters and a lack of consensus regarding the determinants of cluster formation and operation and, the analysis of clusters. This paper begins by marshalling the different definitional approaches of clusters to produce new thinking about these entities. It examines the definitional concepts together with the identified elements and features of clusters as outlined in the literature to develop an alternative cluster classification and a new framework for analysing clusters. The paper concludes that the notion of a value adding web establishes a new way of conceptualising clusters and suggests that the resource-based view of the firm together with dynamic capabilities view provide a productive means of analysing the competitive advantage of clusters
Sampling Choices in Work-life Balance Research 1987 to 2006: A Critical Review
No full textThis study reviewed sampling choices in 245 empirical work-life balance papers published in a range of discipline-based peer-reviewed journals between 1987 and 2006. Results showed that sampling choice in much previous literature is somewhat constrained, with a disproportionate emphasis on married, co-habiting and heterosexual parents, professional / managerial and higher skilled workers and derived from educational institutions and the public sector. Researchers should also be more transparent in providing rationales for their choices of organizations or group lists used to target respondents. Work-life balance research could also be expanded in non-industrialized countries with a greater emphasis on cross-cultural comparisons of phenomena
Knowledge and the boundaries of the firm : design and permeability
Full text linkOrganisational boundaries can be analysed via a variety of lenses – organisational design principles, transaction cost economics, property rights and agency theory, amongst others. We review these before taking a knowledge-based perspective to firstly explain how the boundaries of the firm are determined by the knowledge resources present, and second, to highlight how conceptualising the drivers of competitive advantage in terms of knowledge and learning create a backdrop for understanding the move towards intermediate or hybrid organisational forms most commonly characterised by strategic alliances. We subsequently propose that the exact location of these naturally more fluid boundaries of the firm that exist in conjunction with strategic alliances are not as important as the level of permeability of the organisational boundaries. Permeable organisational boundaries allow for more efficient use of key knowledge resources; for firms to make and buy the same activity simultaneously and for learning to occur – a key driver of competitive advantage for those that subscribe to the knowledge-based view or the dynamic capabilities view of competitive advantage
Studying Strategic Cognition by Content Analysis of Annual Reports: A Validation Involving Firm Innovation
No full textWe test the psychometric validity of a new measure of managerial cognitive focus on innovation described in Kabanoff and Brown (in press). The new measure and six other cognitive strategic dimensions are derived using machine learning and content analysis of top management messages in annual reports of Australian Stock Exchange listed firms (1992-04). A pre-existing, independently-derived economic measure of successful value adding innovation (the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia’s annually calculated enterprise-level Innovation Index Score (IIS) (2002-04)) is used to test for convergent and discriminant validity as well as compare temporal stability. Additional\ud
examination shows the association between the measure of cognitive focus on innovation and IIS is consistent with expectations derived from analysis of then derivation and calculation of IIS. Demonstration of associations between the cognitive and economic measures of innovation partly addresses three of McGee’s (2005) ‘make-or-break’ issues that face cognitive approaches to theories of firmlevel strategising
Managerial implications and future directions
Full text linkThis chapter provides an overview of the main results of the international CI study and examines the implications of these results for organisations and the managers attempting to guide and develop these organisations. We also consider the possible future development of CI and suggest what areas might be most valuable for future research in this area
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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