If defined broadly, innovation can be seen as the business of science organizations. However, like most of the organizational literature, the innovation literature has largely focused on innovation in private sector business organizations. This literature may, nonetheless, have insights that can be used by the science organizations, both private and public. First, although science organizations...

The study contributes to the management control system (MCS), environmental and behavioural reaction literature by examining mediating role of employee citizenship behaviour on association between interactive diagnostic use eco-control with eco-innovation. Based an empirical analysis 406 Australian organisations, results indicate that mediates effect both eco-innovation (specifically, eco-produ...

We have now enough background in the teaching of eco-design to make some conclusions on practices and evolutions in this area; in France these teachings are very supported by studies of APEDEC (Association of Experts for the Development of Eco-Design) that published in 2006 and 2010 the results of enquiries concerning this subject. Curricula concerning eco-design exist since 1987 but a signific...

We examine the effect of corporate environmental innovation (hereafter eco-innovation) on stock price crash risk and document a significant negative association. Utilising large sample publicly listed U.S. firms for period 2003 to 2017, we find that an increase in eco-innovation from 25th 75th percentile is associated with 17.62% reduction risk. This outcome remains robust variety sensitivity t...

The Duke Medicine Graduate Medical Education Quasi-Endowment, established in 2006, provides infrastructure support and encourages educational innovation. The authors describe Duke's experience with the "grassroots innovation" part of the fund, the Duke Innovation Fund, and discuss the Innovation Fund's processes for application, review, and implementation, and also outcomes, impact, and intende...

Growing urbanization puts pressure on both social and ecological systems. This pressure raises complex and multi-facetted challenges that can only be tackled by collaborative and distributed innovation development processes. However, theoretical frameworks that assess such collaborations are often very conceptual, with little focus on the actual governance mechanisms that facilitate them. This ...

Rising pharmaceutical prices, increasing demand for more effective innovative drugs and growing public outrage have heightened criticism of the pharmaceutical industry. The public debate has focused on drug prices and access. As a consequence, the patent system is being reexamined as an efficient mechanism for encouraging pharmaceutical innovation and drug development. We propose an alternative...

The objective of this study is to look at how Malaysian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are applying eco-innovation capabilities in order sustain their business performance. Eco-innovation represented by five different types practices, with the indication unexpected circumstances: eco-product innovation, eco-process eco-organisational eco-marketing eco-technology innovation. qualitative res...

nearly two decades, organizational failures are considered as an effective source of promoting organizational learning. error management culture in the organization is established as a mechanism to facilitate organizational learning from errors that improves long-term and sustainable innovation and organizational performance. the main objective of this study is to investigate the relation betwe...