...Tyler Case; Grant Alexander Wilson Purpose The paper answers call for strategy as practice exploration and revised strategic analysis tools over time with the application of opportunity mapping – used with an innovative, third-generation family firm in a highly competitive global context...

... Africa. Future studies should integrate digital transformation and sustainability in EO frameworks. Practical implications Entrepreneurs and business leaders can leverage EO strategies to enhance innovation, competitiveness and adaptability. The findings suggest that firms should tailor EO...

... inventories dating from the 1850s kept in ponds in Florida. (Snell, 1983). Our findings are relevant to other countries, and to comparable modern supply chains affected by resource supply constraints. Innovation Agriculture Historical research Manufacturing systems Supply chain management Ship...

...Susana Fernández Fernández Purpose The purpose of this paper is to refract March’s views on leadership to re-frame them within an authentic model that understands optimistic failure and mindful resilience as likely byproducts of enabling ambiguous innovation. An analysis of March’s theories...

...Armen E. Petrosyan Purpose This paper aims to retrace the genesis of private share company in Ancient Rome as one of the greatest innovation in the history of management. Design/methodology/approach Relying on a thorough and systematic analysis of the available historical material, and modern...

... historical evidence to bear on the company law reforms of the second half of the twentieth century and, in particular, on the changes inspired by the Cohen Committee report of 1945 . Findings Scientific progress and innovation were important rationales for the emergence of managerial authority...

...James M. Wilson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyse a historic performance-based pay system used in 1803-1810 to reward Marc Isambard Brunel for his innovative engineering designs used in the Portsmouth Block Mills. This was used to ensure that Brunel would continue his...

.... The literature on entrepreneurship produces a framework for examining the actions that were taken to bring the rack lever escapement to market. The historical context within which the innovations occurred was examined to establish the events and circumstances surrounding the times when commercialisation took...

...Robert Laudone; Eric W. Liguori; Jeffrey Muldoon; Josh Bendickson Purpose – This paper aims to explore the true sources of innovation that revolutionized two sports industries – skiing and tennis, tracking the flow of ideas and power of technology brokering through the eyes of the innovator...

... change Innovation Uncertainty management Management theory Organizational change Uncertainty is an intrinsic component of competition. The need for organizations to cope with or adapt to uncertainty represents an early focus of organizational research (e.g. Coase, 1937 ; Schumpeter, 1934...

...Tony Proctor Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the process of innovation management in the eighteenth century in the context of the search for precision time keeping in the watch making industry. In particular it looks at how knowledge was managed and transferred among interested...

... are deepened. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Liability Management Newness Organizational evolution Innovation Organizational structures Management history The outstanding American sociologist Arthur Stinchcombe has authored a number of innovative and leading essays about...

...John F. Preble; Richard C. Hoffman Purpose The purpose of this study is to employ the concepts of the general management of innovation to help explain the extraordinary inventiveness of the Shaker religious community. Design/methodology/approach Utilizing historical accounts of Shaker...

...Joyce Heames; Michael Harvey; Timothy Kiessling; Miriam Moeller Purpose The paper seeks to examine the influence of the Austrian School of Economics and its views of innovations and entrepreneurship on one of their champions, Joseph Schumpeter. Schumpeter's insights on innovation...

... with creative ideas, and to stimulate innovativeness. The R&D‐management was the outcome of a search process that comprehended a mixture of scientific and industrial (management) skills, knowledge and expertise, which together shaped an industrial research culture. One of the most difficult questions...