Purpose The purpose of this paper is to expand the understanding of the “front end” of innovation by examining the influence of top executives, who allocate the resources and cultivate the culture in which inventions are born, on the innovation process. Design/methodology/approach This paper...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of scaffolded lesson study on the content knowledge, conceptions of curriculum, and classroom practice of 22 elementary and secondary history teachers in four school districts. Design/methodology/approach Teachers, teacher...

The purpose of this study is to explore organizational learning, using the lens of absorptive capacity, as a multi-level phenomenon spanning individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis. In the first chapter we explore how characteristics of individual employees interact with group...