Browsing by Subject "innovation"
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Decision-making biases and affective states: Their potential impact on best practice innovations
(2010-09-20)Rogers’s (2003) stages of innovation adoption and diffusion (knowledge of innovation, persuasion, decision, implementation, and confirmation) are used as a framework for understanding the decision-making biases and heuristics ... -
Developing Leadership for Creative Efforts: A Preface
(Advances in Developing Human Resources, 2011-08-01)Michael D. Mumford is the George Lynn Cross distinguished research professor of psychology at the University of Oklahoma where he directs the Center for Applied Social Research. He received his doctoral degree from the ... -
Digital Transformation: How to Beat the High Failure Rate
(2019-05-01)Firms every year spend $1.3 trillion on digital transformation programs to improve efficiency because digital leaders outperform their peers in nearly every industry. However, digital transformations that are intended to ... -
Diversity and Innovation: An Analysis of Policy Reinvention
(2019-05-01)This study explores a diversity-innovation relationship in state legislatures. The research includes three measures of diversity: occupational, gender, and racial diversity. The author uses two measures to capture diversity: ... -
Entrepreneurial success: An integrative study of team climate for innovation, group regulatory focus, innovation performance, and success
(2010-05)Scope and Method of Study: This dissertation examines the role of collective regulatory focus as a mediating motivational process between team climate for innovation, team innovation performance, and entrepreneurial success. ... -
Environmental influences on idea selection, refinement, and creativity
(2016-12)Creative ideas rarely translate into successful innovations. This study investigated three factors hypothesized to influence idea selection, refinement, and creativity—the source of ideas as well as the goals and climate ... -
Essays in financial development, innovation, and economic growth
(2020-05)My dissertation comprises two chapters. The first chapter uses country-level data and examines the diminishing effect of financial development on innovation, and how "too much finance" affects economic growth through this ... -
An Examination of the Impacts of Hurricane Harvey on Water Utility Operations and Planning
(2021)Hurricane Harvey stalled over Southeast Texas for the better part of a week in August 2017. During that time, the Category 4 storm produced unprecedented amounts of rainfall throughout the region, causing extensive flooding ... -
Impact of Top Management Team Diversity on Firm Innovation
(2019-07)The success and failure of companies can be attributed to many causes, but innovation is often cited as one of the key factors. Innovation can be defined broadly as the successful exploitation of new ideas (Nathan & Lee, ... -
Implementation of Mobile Devices in the Middle-Level Classroom Environment
(2019-05-01)The purpose of this qualitative case study is to understand administrator and teacher perceptions of their ability to effectively implement the use of mobile devices in a rapidly changing, high-stakes accountability ... -
Investigating leadership characteristics and attitudes toward creativity according to agency context for agriculture extension agents in Uruguay
(2013-12)The purpose of this study was to investigate attitudes toward creativity and leadership characteristics according to the agency context for extension agents in Uruguay. Extension agents come from the three different agency ... -
Students' perceptions of communications provided by faculty and peer leaders, course motivation, and final project innovativeness in capstone courses
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Team innovation and citizenship performance: The effect of collective regulatory focus and perceived organizational support
(2014-07)This study investigates the impact perceived organizational support and a team climate for innovation has on team innovation and citizenship performance. Collective regulatory focus is utilized as a mediating process to ... -
Telesis 2019
(2019)Front Matter: Telesis editor Emily Hays offers thanks to supporters, as well as an introduction to the issue. This section also includes the table of contents. -
Tradition vs. innovation: Twenty-first century learning and school readiness for change
(2010-12)Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this case study was to analyze the willingness of staff within one district's three secondary schools to change, and to determine the schools' readiness to transition from traditional ...