manager. Furthermore, we hypothesize that optimistic managers embody positive leadership—employing a strengths-based approach … productivity of their employees. In a cross-sectional study of 86 employees and 17 managers in an Information Technology (IT … subset of this data prospectively, with 39 employees and 14 managers, manager optimism predicted project performance. Our …

Nardelli, the lives of these high ranking corporate managers have been extensively scrutinized. However, despite the numerous … interview senior level managers and executives within local companies and see what their experience and success has taught them …

Management texts have long been prescriptive regarding management practice, recommending managers do this, and managers … gone into the field to observe just what managers actually do. Change management literature tends to be prescriptive … empirical information discussing what effective change managers actually do. This paper aims to present empirical data from a …

innovation. While Mimicry has been applied to various areas of sciences such as engineering, biomimetics and behavioural sciences … whether mimicry inhibits innovation, or which type of mimicry would be better evaluated. As such, mimicry in Marketing is …

between innovation and economic efficiency.Where a patent holder's invention uses an interface with adjacentproducts, the … goods; design changes tomedical devices; and changes in drug formulas. While the patent lawsprovide a spur to innovation by …

This paper empirically shows that innovation in Information Technology (IT) has become increasingly dependent on and … intertwined with innovation in software. This change in the nature of IT innovation has had differential effects on the …’s contribution in IT innovation and the differential innovation performance of US and Japanese electronics, semiconductors, and …

entrepreneurship on one of their champions, Joseph Schumpeter. Schumpeter's insights on innovation and entrepreneurship issues are …, though imperfectly, without interference. Originality/value - The paper suggests that innovation and entrepreneurship are the …