Ideas are ubiquitous. They are the fundamental building blocks for all aspects of life. Yet, efforts to use ideas as a basic unit of analysis in a shared framework are rare. We often find it difficult to look past the artificial boundaries that academic disciplines and specialist fields of...

Ideas are ubiquitous. They are the fundamental building blocks for all aspects of life. Yet, efforts to use ideas as a basic unit of analysis in a shared framework are rare. We often find it difficult to look past the artificial boundaries that academic disciplines and specialist fields of...

A widely observed yet little studied phenomenon in the competitive behavior of innovating firms is what we call ‘creative cycles'. This occurs when the firm's innovative strategy cycles between bold visions and more conservative positions. We propose an appreciative theory of this dynamic...

This paper reports on a study of education credentials in relation to job requirements in the creative industries. Because of asymmetric information, the signaling model predicts over-education by those seeking to enter creative industries, as has been observed in many other industries. However,...