Purpose The purpose of this paper is to progress operations management theory and practice by organising contributions to knowledge production, in industrial sustainability, from disparate researcher communities. It addresses the principal question “What scholarly dialogues can be explicated...

This dissertation presents the findings of an exploratory collective case-study examiningcorporate innovations arising from voluntary dyadic engagement between UK firms andnonprofit organisations (NPOs) focused on social issues.Whilst the extant literature demonstrates that pro-active engagement...

Much recent discussion has highlighted the challenges posed by what have variouslybeen called “disruptive”, “discontinuous”, “breakthrough” and “radical” innovations.Although the labelling may vary, the underlying themes appear to be consistent. Inparticular it is clear that...

This research, based on four in-depth case studies, probes an overlooked unit of analysis in innovation management literature, namely management action and cognition, and offers a new qualitative contribution into resource allocation approaches that support radical innovation. The interpretivist...

Research has consistently linked organizational inertia to the failure of industry incumbents to prosper or even survive from periods of discontinuous change driven by technological entrepreneurship. Recent work has unbundled the structure of inertia into two key determinants; 'resource...