Chapter 1: The Power of Decisions -- Part I: Understanding Poor Decision-Making -- Chapter 2: The Psychology Behind Bad Decisions -- Chapter 3: Common Pitfalls in Personal Decision-Making -- Chapter 4: Business Blunders -- Part II: Strategies for Better Decision-Making -- Chapter 5: Building...

The temporal geography of chemical inventions: the case of persistent organic pollutants -- Assessing policy impact on organizational inventions: the case of the stockholm convention -- Are we moving towards a toxic-free world? Insights from patent analysis in the pesticide business.

Purpose: Any business model innovation process involves a certain level of uncertainty, complexity and, in effect, risk. A sloppy approach towards the management of risk may result in catastrophic, sometimes even fatal, consequences to a company's core business. Although risk, risk appetite and...

Previous research found that capital structure affects performance when it is adapted to the level of environmental dynamism and pursuit of an innovation strategy. The current study reproduces some of these relationships in a more recent dataset but also identifies significant nuances across...

The subject of investigation includes the issue of adjusting an innovation strategy of an industrial innovation cluster under uncertain behavior of the external and internal environment. With that in mind, a possibility is regarded as to abandon the cluster strategy that has already been...

This chapter discusses the challenge imposed by the dispersed innovation that shifts toward replicating the positive traits of co-location and coupling it with the unique advantages of the global initiative. Key concepts in this chapter include project risk, risk pertinent to the innovative...