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Innovative Companies’ Approach to Innovation Strategy

There is growing interest in the global marketplace on innovation. For example, Tesla dominates Electric Vehicle (EV) sales but is losing market share to more affordable EVs from competitors, including Ford and Hyundai.

Thematic Narrative Research to Explore the Traits that Help Shape an Innovator, Entrepreneur, and Philanthropist

This study outlines the use of a phenomenological interviewing process, as defined by Irving Seidman (Seidman, 2019), to explore the traits that contribute to shaping an individual as an innovator, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.

What strategies can motivate businesses to consider implementing ESG?

ESG (environmental, social, and governance) continues to evolve and there is no agreement as to whether it can coexist with profit maximization goals. As a result, some businesses have not been fully committed to ESG, and progress toward global sustainability has been less than optimal. This research explores the strategies that can motivate businesses to …

Rethinking Disruptive and Social Innovation: The Impact Model

The leadership literature often emphasizes innovation coupled with disruption as a source of competitive advantage based on the assumption that, without it, organizations constrain social progress in organizations. We identify a new model that comprehensively considers not only disruptive innovation but also the social impact of future decision-making.

The Magic Spark Model: The Future of Transformational Leadership Succession Planning

As management consultants, one of the profound problems we found that executives are facing is that they are wrong. After years of management consulting, there was a huge number of leaders to create an effective and ongoing succession planning model for transformational leadership.

Changing Lives Through Innovation: An Interview with Dean Moez Limayem

This narrative profile of Moez Limayem, Dean of the Muma College of Business, was developed using the thematic narrative research method, which included three exploratory interviews. The initial interview on which this narrative is based focused on the formative experiences that shaped Dean Limayem’s life and career up to the present day.

Governance Practices of Regional Nonprofit Boards: Results from an Exploratory Study

This study examined a cross-section of operating nonprofits to understand what governance policies they utilize and compare these policies and practices to those recommended in the literature. The study was based on interviews of 18 board members of nonprofits in the Tampa Bay area.

Reward-based Crowdfunding in a Pandemic

In early 2020, many entrepreneurs were ready to turn to alternative financing such as crowdfunding. But were the ‘crowd’ financing campaigns like they used to? They were not; paradoxically, they were helping projects succeed at a never-before-seen rate.

Informing Standards: Evolving the Business Case for Maintaining Complex Process Facility Digital Twins

A team of process industry experts unveil value pockets for full lifecycle management of 3D design models and how to use them to reduce the total cost of ownership for complex process facilities.

Informing Operations: Evaluating the Need to Maintain Complex Process Facility Digital Twins

Ops never maintained ‘Digital Twins’ in the past, why invest scarce resources now? We ask industry experts for their take on lifecycle information asset management of this rapidly emerging techno-trend.