Purpose: Hospital organisations are currently experiencing significant challenges that have encouraged a move towards a value-based approach to health care. However, such a transition requires understanding the underlying competencies required to enable such a focus. This paper aims to...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to draw on literature underpinning social support to explore individual level considerations when designing social support systems for academic entrepreneurs. Design/methodology/approach: The paper draws from literature in the fields of entrepreneurship,...

Purpose: This paper explores the role of goal setting and external accountability mechanisms in embedding strategic learning plans in small firms. The research question asks, how are strategic learning plans embedded in small firms? Design/methodology/approach: Insights from in-depth action...

Purpose: This paper explores the role of goal setting and external accountability mechanisms in embedding strategic learning plans in small firms. The research question asks, does an external learning intervention influence how strategic learning plans are embedded in small firms?...

Purpose: Using a state of the art CIMO literature review the paper develops a framework of the relationship between strategy making in the small tourism firm context and four performance outcomes. Design/methodology/approach: The paper uses the CIMO literature review method, adapted from the...

Purpose: This study explores how individual, dyad and team levels of learning interact in public healthcare medical teams. Design/methodology/approach: A single interpretive case study is carried out in the public Health Service Executive (HSE) in Ireland, involving three rounds of...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate key criteria underpinning network-facilitated green innovation capability development in micro-firms. Design/methodology/approach: Micro-firms, those firms with less than ten full-time employees, need to continuously innovate in order to sustain...