Browsing Conferences - School of Engineering, ATU Galway City by Author "Costello, Gabriel J."
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Aristotle’s phronesis: putting some meat on the philosophy of innovation
Costello, Gabriel J. (2018-06-28)This paper investigates Aristotle’s ethical writings, especially examining his synthesis of the ideas of knowledge and wisdom and their application in practice. This he achieved through the concept of phronesis (phronēsis) ... -
Beyond RBV and KBV to an innovation-based view of the firm
Costello, Gabriel J.; Donnellan, Brian (2011)The quest to understand sources of sustained competitive advantage is still a major area of interest to both researchers and practitioners. The central thesis of this paper is that the resource-based view of the firm and ... -
Can appreciative inquiry reawaken the spirit of action research?
Costello, Gabriel J.; Taylor, Chris (2012)The paper seeks to explore how Appreciative Inquiry (AI) can contribute to Action Research (AR), especially in the Irish health sector. -
Communication using signs: an empirical study of a manufacturing information system using Stamper’s OS ladder
Costello, Gabriel J. (2017-01-12)This paper investigates information exchange during a longitudinal study of a manufacturing information system in a multinational subsidiary where the researcher had the status of a temporary employee. During this study ... -
Development of a Best-Practice Framework for the Introduction of Sustainable Energy Communities in Europe: Lessons from Initial Field Studies in Denmark and Ireland
Heaslip, Eimear; Costello, Gabriel J.; Lohan, John (2014)This paper presents the findings from initial fieldwork studies of sustainable energy community (SEC) development methodologies in two islands in Denmark and one rural village in Ireland. This study was undertaken in order ... -
Development of a prototype knowledge discovery portal for energy informatics
Costello, Gabriel J.; Clarke, Raymond; Donnellan, Brian; Lohan, John (2013)This paper describes the development of a prototype knowledge discovery portal (KDP) for energy informatics. The research domain is Ireland which is increasingly challenged to achieve energy efficiency targets and to ... -
A dialogical action research approach to innovation as organisational change
Costello, Gabriel J.; Rochford, Colm; Donnellan, Brian (2008)This paper argues that dialogical action research (AR) recently proposed by Mårtensson & Lee, provides a novel framework for both relevant and rigorous collaboration between academics and practitioners. The work is presented ... -
Dialogical action research as engaged scholarship: an empirical study
Costello, Gabriel J.; Conboy, Kieran; Donnellan, Brian (2011)The rigor versus relevance debate continues to be a matter of lively discussion in the information systems discipline. The main argument of this paper is that dialogical action research provides a methodology to pursue ... -
Dialogical action research: a case study
Costello, Gabriel J.; Donnellan, Brian (2011)The paper is in the form of a case study, in it the researchers used APC-Ireland, a subsidiary of the American Power Conversion (APC) Corporation. The Corporation entered a major period of transition in the first quarter ... -
An ecological perspective on innovation management
Costello, Gabriel J.; Conboy, Kieran; Donnellan, Brian (2011)Enabling innovation is major challenge for individuals, teams, organizations, regions and economies and the topic is increasingly seen as being crucial not only to success but to survival. The topic of innovation is both ... -
Edith Stein and the problem of empathy: insights for responsible innovation
Costello, Gabriel J. (2017-01-12)This paper argues that the concept of empathy can provide a rich philosophical source for the nascent area of Responsible Innovation (RI). The lens through which this study looks at RI is that of phenomenology. The research ... -
Edith Stein’s Phenomenology of Empathy, Education and Community: Lessons for Academic Collaboration
Costello, Gabriel J. (2017)The paper argues that any programme designed to achieve authentic academic collaboration in a scholarly community requires a firm philosophical grounding. Consequently the work is based in the field of Phenomenology, founded ... -
Empathy and teamwork: reflections on the legacy of Claudio Ciborra through the phenomenology of Edith Stein
Costello, Gabriel J.; Cresham, Michael; Donnellan, Brian (2007)Claudio Ciborra argued that the position of information and communications technology (ICT) in organisations requires a shift from the present focus on the scientific paradigm to an alternative centre of gravity: human ... -
Erasmus, Luther and the free will debate: influencing the philosophy of management 500 Years on –whether we realise it or not!
Costello, Gabriel J. (2018-06-28)Almost exactly 500 years ago, Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, an action that changed the course of world history. The greatest debate of that era was between Desiderius ... -
Incubating engineers: entrepreneur-student collaboration in the teaching of entrepreneurship to mechanical engineers
Costello, Gabriel J. (2014-06-11)This paper will provide an example of using student-entrepreneur collaboration in the teaching of a module on entrepreneurship to Mechanical Engineering final year students at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) ... -
Leveraging institute of technology incubation centres in the teaching of innovation: a case study
Costello, Gabriel J. (2015)The overriding purpose of this on-going work is to contribute to the debate on the best pedagogical approach to developing undergraduate Mechanical Engineering skills to meet the requirements of contemporary complex working ... -
Linking the triple helix model of innovation to enterprise innovation processes
Costello, Gabriel J.; Rochford, Colm; Donnellan, Brian (2006)The purpose of this paper is see how the triple helix model of innovation can be linked to enterprise innovation processes. This paper has provided some preliminary results, findings and reflections from an ongoing case ... -
Managing lean supply and innovation: cross-cultural knowledge transfer in an multi-national company
Xin Xu, Susanna; Donnellan, Brian; Golden, Willie; Costello, Gabriel J. (2007)There is growing evidence that organisations are increasingly using the concept of lean supply to foster innovation. This paper considers key factors that influence this management approach in the context of the cross-cultural ... -
Mobilising IS to support the diffusion of energy management practices outside of Ireland's LIEN (Large Industry Energy Network)
Costello, Gabriel J.; Lohan, John; Donnellan, Brian (2010)Ireland is under increasing pressure to reduce energy consumption to meet carbon emission targets and protect an economy that is almost totally dependant on imported energy. The implementation of no cost and low cost energy ... -
A new organisational ecology for open innovation: the Innovation Value Institute
Curley, Martin; Costello, Gabriel J.; Donnellan, Brian (2012)In this paper a new theoretical framework for Innovation Eco-Systems is proposed and the application of the model in the Innovation Value Institute (IVI) is described. The IVI is engaged in the development of the IT-Capability ...