he commentary on our article “Radical HRM Innovation and Competitive Advantage: The Moneyball Story” by Drs. Dick Bryan and Michael Rafferty provides a welcome opportunity to further explore the ideas we originally presented. The purpose of our article was “to investigate the Moneyball story to glean what lessons are contained therein . . . concerning innovation, resistance to change, and compe...

This paper describes research to examine the process of knowledge transfer between universities and industry, where the transfer of knowledge can be a valuable source of innovation for a company, in terms of new product development (radical innovation) but also as a source of knowledge for process or product improvement (incremental innovation). The view is adopted that the most useful knowledg...

The need for higher educational systems to undergo a radical process of innovation is recognized worldwide, but how such a process has to be triggered, managed and sustained is far from being fixed. The paper illustrates the case study of a small Italian online university where a number of actions (i.e. a preliminary analysis of the existing system, the development of a new platform, a training...

Although the impacts of greenhouse gas build-up remain uncertain, they have the potential to be very serious and possibly catastrophic. If the outcomes are serious then neither improving energy efficiency nor adaptation policies will cope with the problems of warming. Reducing climate impacts without impeding economic development will require new low or zero emissions energy carriers and associ...

ow is it that Moneyball (Lewis, 2003), a book seemingly about baseball, was among the Economist’s Books of 2003 in the Economics & Business category, was a New York Times bestseller, is referenced in Larry Bossidy’s most recent book (Bossidy & Charan, 2004), and motivated an argument in the National Review that American education would do well to adopt the rigorous analysis employed by Billy Be...

This paper points to seemingly contradicted processes of framing innovation, idea generation and killing ideas. It reports from a yearlong innovation project, where health care professionals explored problems and tested ideas for solutions, regarding a future downsizing of the case hospital. Theories in various ways describe the opening and closing phases of innovation. Exploration and idea gen...

Innovation is often understood in terms such as radical versus incremental, or exploratory versus exploitative, yet these terms are used loosely with little precision as to the type or amount of ‘newness’ found in the innovation. We suggest that innovations be judged on the basis of original knowledge contribution and needs addressed. Based on this fundamental definition, we propose a formal ty...

Manufacturing process innovation (MPI), an organization-wide effort involving radical redesign of manufacturing related processes and systems to achieve dramatic improvements in critical manufacturing performance measures, encompasses various kinds of activities. Some MPI initiatives focus on technological innovation and others may intend to change work processes and ganizations adopt new techn...