This study recognises that innovation and renewal is instrumental in gaining competitiveadvantage. However, large firms often face a renewal dilemma. Despite the fact that manyfirms recognise the need for innovation and renewal, they find it challenging to implementinnovation. Thus, the need for...

Service industries hold an increasingly dynamic and pivotal role in today's knowledge-based economies. The logistics industry is a classic example of the birth and development of a vital new service-based industry, transformed from the business concept of transportation to that of serving the...

Service industries hold an increasingly dynamic and pivotal role in today?s knowledge-based economies. The logistics industry is a classic example of the birth and development of a vital new service-based industry, transformed from the business concept of transportation to that of serving the...

Throughout the centuries, business lives have been changing and modifying. Each era in history brought new needs, demands and requirements. During the Agricultural era land and tools played important roles, while during the Industrial era machines and factories played a dominant role in shaping...

Introduction: Articles in this Special Issue were first presented at the World Innovation and Strategy Conference (WISC98) in Sydney, Australia in late 1998. Outstanding contributions that included a strong emphasis on technological issues or the management of technology were selected from over...

Innovative narratives are represented, at times almost prescribed, in the management literature. While the key to developing competencies is fundamentally linked to many innovative practices and processes, the fundamentals of innovation cannot be separated from values, from learning, from...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The central question that this research report attempts to answer is how southern African countries can leapfrog from agrarian to knowledge-based economies. There is no single answer to this question, but rather a complex solution. This can best be answered using scenario...

The survival of an organisation in a global competitive business environment depends on its survival skills(e.g. adaptability, flexibility and innovativeness), which is situated within its human resources. Hence, therecruitment function’s role is critical, since it is responsible for the...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Through the process of innovation, organisations create technological growth. Successful innovation creates customer value through new products and services, and it could give rise to new markets. Successful innovations contribute to better quality, higher productivity, lower...

This study focuses on academic entrepreneurship. It commences with a literature reviewon international trends in academic entrepreneurship, with a particular focus on incentiveschemes used by selected countries to encourage innovativeness in academicinstitutions. Linkages between these...