ATU Galway City: Recent submissions
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The triple helix, open innovation and the DOI research agenda
(Springer, 2007)This paper examines the implications for research into the diffusion of innovations (DOI) arising from a growing body of literature in two related fields. The first area concerns the debate on the role of regional and ... -
Innovation management in a multi-national corporation’s subsidiary of Ireland’s evolving knowledge economy
(2006)Innovation management is now seen as an important competitive advantage for Multi-national Corporation (MNC) subsidiaries located in Ireland’s changing economy. This paper reports on the initial stages of a case study in ... -
Incubation centres and the teaching of entrepreneurship: bridging theory and practice
(2016-04-04)This paper argues that collaboration between Higher Education Institutions and Incubation Centres can contribute to the embedding of entrepreneurship in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. ... -
Review: innovation process frameworks
(2015)Innovation publications have been recently described as fragmented and inconsistent. Consequently the field requires work to synthesise the literature and provide a coherent review of frameworks that have been developed ... -
Innovation ecosystems: a conceptual framework
(2013)This paper addresses the need for a theoretical framework to stimulate research in the area of innovation ecosystems by building on historical analysis of innovation definitions. The work is a response to the assessment ... -
Proposing a formalised model for mindful information systems offshoring.
(2010)The central thesis of this paper is that Mathematical Economics can provide a novel approach to the examination of offshoring business decisions and provide an impetus for future research in the area. A growing body of ... -
Towards an innovation-based view of the firm
(2011)The central thesis of this paper is that the resource-based view of the firm and the knowledge based view of the firm require updating to an innovation-based view. This novel hypothesis of the firm is informed by a review ... -
Seeking the face of innovation with the ethical compass of Emmanuel Levinas
(2008)A recent biographer has described the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas as being permeated by one simple but profound theme: western philosophy has at best ignored and at worst suppressed the “Other”. The approach of this ... -
Beyond RBV and KBV to an innovation-based view of the firm
(2011)The quest to understand sources of sustained competitive advantage is still a major area of interest to both researchers and practitioners. The central thesis of this paper is that the resource-based view of the firm and ... -
Towards a meta-theoretical framework for innovation and information systems research
(2012)The importance of theory to the IS discipline is the subject of ongoing debate and there have been recent calls for novel conceptualizations to stimulate research. In the area of innovation, one of the main conclusions ... -
Dialogical action research: a case study
(2011)The paper is in the form of a case study, in it the researchers used APC-Ireland, a subsidiary of the American Power Conversion (APC) Corporation. The Corporation entered a major period of transition in the first quarter ... -
The phenomenology of time: reflections from the Lebenswelt
(2013)The aim of this study is to reflect on how time was perceived by different actors during a longitudinal study of innovation in the lebenswelt –in this case a multi-national subsidiary (Costello, 2010). It aims to address ... -
Managing lean supply and innovation: cross-cultural knowledge transfer in an multi-national company
(2007)There is growing evidence that organisations are increasingly using the concept of lean supply to foster innovation. This paper considers key factors that influence this management approach in the context of the cross-cultural ... -
A dialogical action research approach to innovation as organisational change
(2008)This paper argues that dialogical action research (AR) recently proposed by Mårtensson & Lee, provides a novel framework for both relevant and rigorous collaboration between academics and practitioners. The work is presented ... -
An ecological perspective on innovation management
(2011)Enabling innovation is major challenge for individuals, teams, organizations, regions and economies and the topic is increasingly seen as being crucial not only to success but to survival. The topic of innovation is both ... -
Can appreciative inquiry reawaken the spirit of action research?
(2012)The paper seeks to explore how Appreciative Inquiry (AI) can contribute to Action Research (AR), especially in the Irish health sector. -
Supply chain transformation in APC Ireland: lean thinking, opposing logics and bricolage
(2007)This paper presents a number of observations and findings from an ongoing study of supply chain transformation in a subsidiary of American Power Conversion (APC) located in the West of Ireland. The study is being carried ... -
Symbolic interactionism and the cell information board: challenging the wisdom of systems
(2013)Claudio Ciborra in “The Labyrinths of Information: Challenging the Wisdom of Systems” argues that the position of information and communications technology (ICT) in organizations requires a shift from the present focus ... -
Reflections on reflection in action research: notes from a field study
(2008)There is wide agreement in the literature that “reflection” is a critical component in the methodology of action research (AR). This paper argues that there is little practical guidance for information systems researchers ... -
Dialogical action research as engaged scholarship: an empirical study
(2011)The rigor versus relevance debate continues to be a matter of lively discussion in the information systems discipline. The main argument of this paper is that dialogical action research provides a methodology to pursue ...
