Governments in developing countries usually fail to generate innovative solutions to public policy issues or they are not even conscious of the high potential they have if they could open their problems for innovative solutions. Innovation at the public level is limited because of organizational and cultural reasons, mainly because government officials do not have the right incentives to do so....

The adoption and continued use of innovations by societies, organisations and individuals has been a subject of research since before the 1930s. A variety of different theories have been developed to account for the different speeds at which innovations are adopted and the factors that affect the adoption process. This paper reviews theories of the adoption of innovations with particular refere...

In the first chapter of this book, David Lane et al. point out that the Darwinian approach to biological evolution is insufficient for the description and explanation of the cultural and social transmission of many, if not most, of society’s characteristics. Instead, the chapter proposes that we shift from ‘population thinking’ to ‘organization thinking’ to understand socio-cultural phenomena. ...

Although enterprise systems are gaining interests from both practitioners and researchers because of their potential linkages to organizational and individual user’s productivity, there are few papers that investigate enterprise systems management and implementation issues based on the end users’ perspective with the cross-cultural mechanisms. This issue is important because currently the enter...

Purpose. One of the perspectives that receives most attention from studies in international business is cultural dimensions. This due to greater complexity and incidence aspects economic performance. paper explored moderation effect orientations on creation innovation trajectories related levels their outcomes countries various geographical areas between 2011 2021. Design/Methodology/Approach. ...

Recent research into human origins has largely focused on deducing past events and processes from current patterns of genetic variation. Some human genes possess unexpectedly low diversity, seemingly resulting from events of the late Pleistocene. Such anomalies have previously been ascribed to population bottlenecks or selection on genes. For four species of matrilineal whale, evidence suggests...

Recent research into human origins has largely focused on deducing past events and processes from current patterns of genetic variation. Some human genes possess unexpectedly low diversity, seemingly resulting from events of the late Pleistocene. Such anomalies have previously been ascribed to population bottlenecks or selection on genes. For four species of matrilineal whale, evidence suggests...

This paper provides a review of what every developing-country policymaker should know about low-carbon innovation. It explains what is unique about low-carbon innovation, why low-carbon innovation systems matter, and in what ways they need to be strengthened. However, building low-carbon innovation systems is a resource-intensive and long term endeavour, the outcomes of which are neither guaran...