An environment conducive to bureaucratic innovation?: Exploring the potential for public entrepreneurship within FEMA

Is Happiness Conducive to Entrepreneurship? Exploring Subjective Well-Being - Entrepreneurship Relationship across Major European Cities

Using perception of quality of life survey by Eurostat we construct the City Ecosystem Index (CEI) – a systemic indicator that measures subjective well-being in European cities. The purpose of the index is to inform public, policy-makers and entrepreneurs by providing a holistic view on subjective well-being across European cities. Once contrasted with the Global and Regional Systems of Entrepr...

Exploring the Unknown On Entrepreneurship, Coordination and Innovation Driven Growth

Notwithstanding the revival of attention recently displayed by the economic discipline about self-sustained processes of economic growth fueled by technological advances, an enormous gap still remains between what we historically know about technical change and its economic exploitation, one the one hand, and the ways we represent them in formal growth models, on the other. Building on some gen...

Exploring the development of social alignment within an innovation context

There has been increasing attention in IS literature around the technology-business relationship and the concept of social alignment. However, little attention has been given to how or why social alignment should be developed. Further examining the concept this paper explores the development of social alignment within an innovation context. Using canonical action research the study is based wit...

Leading Innovation within Public Organisations

Conducive Classroom Environment in Schools

Learning takes place within a web of social relationships as teachers and pupils interact both formally and informally. Schools are institutional spaces for communities of learners, including both students and teachers. Education to be effective in schools, the environment needs to be conducive to learning, allowing the pupils space and time to interact within the learning and teaching process....