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Innovative Culture: Values, Principles and Practices of Senior Executives in Highly Innovative Companies
Culture, Values and the Long Waves of Capitalist Development
‘Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contained in time past’
T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets […]
Designing Radical Innovation
The innovation imperative The world is changing: customers, consumers, constituents—the users of our products and services—are now in control. Users are more discerning, they have more choices and are more comfortable exercising these choices. Users are demanding that products and services work for them in the fullest sense: that their total experience is as good […]
Two Knowledge Dynamics for Innovation
«Google is a good example of the US attracting knowledge originally accumulated elsewhere in the world» […]
Technological Change and the Evolution of the U.S. “National Innovation System”, 1880-1990
Technological change has played a central role in US economic growth since the 19th century. The pioneering work of Solow (1957) and Abramovitz (1956) both suggested that expansion in labor and capital accounted for no more than 15% of total growth in US output per head between the middle of the 19th century and the […]
Semiglobalization and Strategy for a Post-Crisis World
The worst economic downturn that virtually any of us can remember has already led to large drop-offs in various sorts of cross-border flows (1). International trade is predicted to drop by 9–10% in 2009. Foreign direct investment (FDI) may decline by as much as 45% compared to 2008 figures, which were already 15% lower than […]
A Negative Anthropology of Globalization
[1] Ouro Preto in the Brazilian State of Minas Gerais, far away from the Atlantic coast, is a well preserved baroque town with a bit less than a hundred thousand inhabitants today—but it may well have been the wealthiest and most powerful city on the American continent around 1700 when, under the name of “Vila […]
Globalization after the Financial Crisis
«The phenomenon of international financial investment reveals the flip side of financial globalization: gigantic imbalances in the major economic powers’ balances of payments» […]
Cultural Globalization Reconsidered
Introduction: the world in Ystad One sign of the maturity of the concept of globalization is its application to ever more particular aspects of human life. From the enormous list of published titles containing the phrases “Globalization and…” or “The Globalization of…,” we can now move way beyond general analyses of political, cultural or economic […]