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Reflections on "reflection" in Action Research
(2015-06)
There is wide agreement in the literature that “reflection” is a critical component of any good research, but certainly in the methodology of action research (AR). Despite consensus regarding its importance, this paper ...
An ecological perspective on innovation management
(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 ...
Open innovation: the case of the Innovation Value Institute (IVI) Service Innovation Yearbook.
(2012-01-28)
Over the last decade, significant research has emerged in two areas related to innovation: firstly at the macroeconomic level with the debate on the role and composition of national innovation systems (NIS) and secondly ...
Symbolic interactionism and the cell information board: challenging the wisdom of systems
(2013)
Claudio Ciborra in “The Labyrinths of Information: Challenging the Wisdom of Systems” argues that
the position of information and communications technology (ICT) in organizations requires a shift
from the present focus ...
Dialogical action research: a case study
(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 ...
Towards an innovation-based view of the firm
(2011)
The central thesis of this paper is that the resource-based view of the firm and the knowledge based view of the firm require updating to an innovation-based view. This novel hypothesis of the firm is informed by a review ...
Seeking the face of innovation with the ethical compass of Emmanuel Levinas
(2008)
A recent biographer has described the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas as being permeated by one simple but profound theme: western philosophy has at best ignored and at worst suppressed the “Other”. The approach of this ...
Implementing an innovation project in an Irish multi-national subsidiary: A dialogical action research study
(2013-12-01)
This paper presents an action research (AR) study based in APC by Schneider Electric, formerly APC Ireland, an Irish subsidiary of the Schneider Electric Corporation. The two-year study was carried out during a time of ...
Empathy and teamwork: reflections on the legacy of Claudio Ciborra through the phenomenology of Edith Stein
(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 ...
The diffusion of WOZ: expanding the topology of IS innovations
(2007)
The growth and diffusion of self-service technology (SST) over the last decade has resulted in an increasing number of business and government transactions being completed without human assistance. One innovation in this ...