Quality-orientated management change and innovation are central strategies for firms.
Implementing both quality improvement and innovation poses significant managerial …

How and why do societal, organizational and individual factors affecting gender equity in the
IT field change over time? To answer this question a longitudinal investigation of the nature …

This book is concerned with higher education, and particularly with the gendered world of
senior management in public universities. Higher education in general and universities in …

In this paper, we apply the agent‐based SKIN model (Simulating Knowledge Dynamics in
Innovation Networks) to university‐industry links. The model builds on empirical research …

Exchange between science and industry is a prerequisite for innovation (Kaufmann &
Tödtling, 2001; Pittaway, Robertson, Munir, Denyer & Neely, 2004) and has attracted …

The commercialisation of scientific knowledge has become a primary objective for
universities worldwide. Collaborative research projects are viewed as the key to achieving …

This study aimed to examine the impact of organizational culture on quality management
and innovation practices among manufacturing SMEs in Nigeria. Empirical data were …

The ability to innovate successfully is a key corporate capability, depending strongly on
firms' access to knowledge capital: proprietary, tacit and embodied. Here, we focus on one …

Innovation is the creation of new, technologically feasible, commercially realizable products
and processes and, if things go right, it emerges from the ongoing interaction of innovative …

This book provides a cogent summary of the economic history of the Irish Free
State/Republic of Ireland. It takes the Irish story from the 1920s right through to the present …