Strategic Management of Innovation Focusing on Confluence of Continuity and Change

2013 ◽  
pp. 172-192
Author(s):  
J. S. A. Bhat ◽  
Sushil ◽  
P. K. Jain
Keyword(s):  
Literature Survey ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Customer Preferences ◽  
Management Of Innovation ◽  
Technology Changes ◽  
Dynamic Strategy ◽  
World Class ◽  
Change Forces

Production of world-class products and services amidst inevitable changes in business situations calls for a continual balance across current and future areas of focus. While innovation is accepted as an imperative, managing innovation effectively now, more than ever before, calls for a dynamic strategy to manage the resultant diverse forces that are in play at any point of time. The continuity forces, represented largely by elements denoting stability, such as an assured market base, access to technological and financial resources and availability of human capital, need to be balanced constantly versus change forces, represented by agents such as technology changes, environment changes and customer preferences. Literature survey indicates that successful organizations have demonstrated capabilities in adopting effective strategies to meet these different conditions. The attempt is to present the patterns and trends of research on both continuity and change management aspects, particularly in the context of management of innovation. While it has been possible to highlight only some of the exemplary work, the paper identifies significant gaps in research in this context and suggests a practical framework to address this issue.

Strategic Management of Innovation Focusing on Confluence of Continuity and Change

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. A. Bhat ◽  
Sushil ◽  
P. K. Jain
Keyword(s):  
Literature Survey ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Customer Preferences ◽  
Management Of Innovation ◽  
Technology Changes ◽  
Dynamic Strategy ◽  
World Class ◽  
Change Forces

Production of world-class products and services amidst inevitable changes in business situations calls for a continual balance across current and future areas of focus. While innovation is accepted as an imperative, managing innovation effectively now, more than ever before, calls for a dynamic strategy to manage the resultant diverse forces that are in play at any point of time. The continuity forces, represented largely by elements denoting stability, such as an assured market base, access to technological and financial resources and availability of human capital, need to be balanced constantly versus change forces, represented by agents such as technology changes, environment changes and customer preferences. Literature survey indicates that successful organizations have demonstrated capabilities in adopting effective strategies to meet these different conditions. The attempt is to present the patterns and trends of research on both continuity and change management aspects, particularly in the context of management of innovation. While it has been possible to highlight only some of the exemplary work, the paper identifies significant gaps in research in this context and suggests a practical framework to address this issue.

scholarly journals Demand Side Analysis of Microlending Markets in Germany

2009 ◽  
Vol 229 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Kritikos ◽  
Christoph Kneiding ◽  
Claas Christian Germelmann
Keyword(s):  
Business Owners ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Financial Products ◽  
Customer Preferences ◽  
Retail Business ◽  
Effective Instrument ◽  
Present Pilot Study

SummaryIn developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In industrialized countries, with their highly developed banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate on the question of whether an uncovered demand for microlending services exists. The present pilot study explores customer preferences formicrolending products in Germany. Among the interviewed business owners, 15 % reported revolving funding needs and an interest in microloans. We find that potential recipients of microloan products are retail business owners, foreign business owners, and persons who had previously received private loans. Furthermore, financial products should feature rapid access to short-term loans.

Miesse v. Miesse, 1856

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-35
Author(s):  
Kim E. Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
State Legislators ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Cross Dressing ◽  
And Control

In 1856, Jonathan and Anna Miesse divorced after he accused her of gender deviance, cross-dressing, sexual impropriety, and neglect of their children. Evidence suggests that the couple colluded to agree upon Anna’s guilt in order to divorce. For Jonathan and other husbands, accusations of sexual infamy and unwomanliness served as effective strategies. Not simply an example of victimhood, Anna left the marriage with significant financial resources in a decade in which early women’s rights activists were only beginning to prod state legislators to pass laws enabling women to own and control their own property.

scholarly journals THERE WAS A COLLEGE: INTRODUCING THE UMUAHIAN: A GOLDEN JUBILEE PUBLICATION, EDITED BY CHINUA ACHEBE

Africa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terri Ochiagha
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Chinua Achebe ◽  
Educational History ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
Literary Figure ◽  
History Of ◽  
World Class ◽  
Golden Jubilee ◽  
The Many

ABSTRACTGovernment College, Umuahia is known as the alma mater of eight important Nigerian writers: Chinua Achebe, Elechi Amadi, Gabriel Okara, Chike Momah, I. N. C. Aniebo, Chukwuemeka Ike, Ken Saro-Wiwa and Christopher Okigbo. Many illustrious Nigerian scientists, intellectuals and public leaders passed through the college in its prime, and in West Africa the name of the school evokes an astounding range of success stories. But Umuahia's legend as ‘the Eton of the East’ and the primus inter pares of Nigeria's elite colonial institutions obscures its present reality: nothing remains of its past but its extensive grounds, landmark buildings, and the glittering roll call of dignitaries who once studied within its walls. In 1979, prompted by the many signs of impending doom, a group of old boys joined hands in a historicizing venture, The Umuahian: a golden jubilee publication – the commemorative booklet compiled by the school's most famous alumnus, Chinua Achebe, to mark the college's golden jubilee. The booklet conjured up the school's founding ideals and glorious past in order to lay the ground for its rehabilitation. This introductory essay explains why The Umuahian is an indispensable source for the literary, cultural and educational history of West Africa, contextualizing its singular construction of colonial educational heritage. Sample and hitherto unpublished texts from the booklet by Achebe, his editorial to The Umuahian and its coda, ‘Continuity and change in Nigerian education: a jubilee essay’, are included with the main article. While the contributors to The Umuahian pertain to elite circles, and the volume had a world-class literary figure as its editor, the volume itself was produced for a local occasion and rarefied local audience, had a very limited distribution, and subsequently fell into obscurity. It is in the spirit of the historical and academic retrieval of such locally published and little-known materials by African thinkers and writers that this work appears in the Local Intellectuals strand.

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