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Purpose – This case aims to describe what innovation looks like and how it works in Fidelity Investments, a financial … consultants introduced idea‐management systems, idea‐management contests, design thinking, open innovation, innovation tools …, coaching and mentoring and new innovation processes Findings – The study show that internal consultants made progress by …
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Purpose – The concepts of well‐being and participation are prevalent in current regeneration policy, being seen as … participation in community places and regeneration practices. Design/methodology/approach – The perspectives of regeneration … and academic communities. Findings – Conceptualisations of well‐being and participation articulated through regeneration …
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-initiated innovation process in the context of a regional strategic network (RSN). Design/methodology/approach – An innovation requires … in these three settings. Data are obtained from a case study of an innovation process undertaken from 2007 to 2011 where … interaction between the producing and using settings was particularly challenging when the innovation processes is policy …
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Purpose – The primary purpose of this paper is to merge two traditions in management accounting change – design theory and action research – to explain findings from a case study of introducing a cost leadership initiative. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is an example of action...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the issue of supply management coordination among a prominent contact lens company (customer), its carton supplier (first tier), and paperboard supplier (second tier). Adopting concepts within the theory of swift and even flow, the authors...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to learn more about logistics innovation processes and their implications for … handling material flows of a hospital. This approach made it possible to revisit theory on logistics innovation process … logistics innovation process model may include not just customers but also suppliers; logistics innovation in buyer …
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Purpose – The work presented aimed at developing an integrated framework for holistic performance management. Design/methodology/approach – The research was carried out using an action research approach. A case study was used as the basis for developing a pilot framework for performance...
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participation and collaboration inherent in action research, was felt to make it appropriate to tackling the company’s capacity …
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Purpose – To discuss political entrepreneurship as a capability to enable durable insider action research projects. Design/methodology/approach – The two authors utilize auto‐ethnographic methods in order to evaluate and draw inferences from their own actions as insider action researchers....
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Purpose – To offer a narrative account of an intervention to resolve a conflict and thus enable a community to mobilize against a threat to its Olmsted Park and, simultaneously, to showcase a participatory action research (PAR) approach to change. Design/methodology/approach – A detailed...
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