While scholarly research has produced a great deal of useful knowledge about various forms of innovation, there has been very little attention given to the dynamics of management innovation - the implementation of a new management practice, process or structure that significantly alters the way...

In spite of the continued importance of an innovation’s attributes to research methodologies, and the increasing tendency toward multidimensional conceptualizations, the lack of a theoretically derived and empirically developed classification of innovations, conceived in terms of these...

This report examines innovation in experiential services. These are serviceswhere the focus is on the experience of the customer when interacting with theorganisation, rather than just the functional benefits following from the productsand services delivered. The report is based on a continuing...

Clusters are systems of localised economic activity and innovation. This report reviews current evidence on clustersand develops policy recommendations for the UK. It argues that clusters include multiple firms from related sectorsthat are co-located within a web of complex linkages and a...

This document offers an introduction to work that the AIM Fellows have recently undertaken on management topics relatedto one or more of five priority issues. The priority issues, selected for their potential to help public sector policy-makers andpractitioners in their efforts to achieve...

This report builds on discussions that took place at the fourth UK Management Research Forum organised by AIMResearch, the Chartered Institute of Management and the Department of Trade and Industry. In summary, the reportcontends that:• Leaders both motivate employees and design effective...

“Overall in the UK we do a lot of networking when trying to innovate, perhaps we don’t do enough to capitalise onit and our general infrastructure is not quite adequate to support it”.(AIM Review on Networking and Innovation, 2003).The major points discussed in the report are:On the...

This report summarises the discussions that took place during the AIM Management Research Forum on the 29th April 2003 and the subsequent work of four AIM scholars (Dr Kamal Birdi, University of Sheffield; Dr David Denyer, Cranfield School of Management; Dr Kamal Munir, University of Cambridge...

This paper presents a discourse for embedding the new discipline of service science. It argues for service science to be free of the paradigmatic research influences of existing disciplines and propose service science as an integrative discipline of engineering, technological and, social...

This report was produced following a high value manufacturing workshop involvinga range of academics, practitioners and policymakers organised by AIM Research andthe Technology Strategy Board. The purpose of the discussion was to explore whathigh value manufacturing meant to UK manufacturers,...