Management Science and Innovation
Management of Innovation
R&D Project Valuation and Negotiations
How can we value early-stage R&D projects and support licensing negotiations? (published in Interfaces; recipient of INFORMS Case Competition Award)
Managing Technology Risks in R&D Project Management
What are the advantages and disadvantages of parallelizing
R&D activities and simultaneously pursuing alternative technologies, when
investments have to be made at risk? (published in IIE Transactions, recipient of the Outstanding Paper Award of ...more
Spatial Decision Support Systems for Foreign Direct Investors (FDI)
Where should high-tech, inward investors locate their
activities within the complex business landscape of London and the Greater
South East? Can Geographic Information Systems linked with ...more
Inspiring Open Innovation
The design
and delivery of activities that promote the role that Open Innovation can play
in addressing key societal and economic challenges through collective innovate at
a pan-European level (EU INTEREG Project).
Ecology and music software
In preparation, a long view of the music software history and pre-history, going back to machine orchestras and tracing them through to today, taking in the role of standards, ecologies based on competing standards and the knock on effect of technica ...more.
Developing agile software architecture using real option analysis and value engineering
How should you develop software architecture to enable agility? This will invariably take account of the strategy of the organisation, and what they consider is of value. (SEI SEPG Conference Dublin 2011)
Developing metrics for agile projects compatible with CMMI
What measurements are needed to improve agile project management? Categorised as, ‘cutting edge’ by the SEI (Software
Engineering Institute). SEPG, Amsterdam 2006.
A strategy for corporate project ‘buy-in’
Making use of the latest advances in the understanding of
neuroscience can help make us better leaders and project managers. (Proceedings
Projekte & Emotional Intelligenz conference Vienna also Principles of Project Management
series, APM)
New Technology and Service Development
What is the effect of development of new
technologies and services on current products in the telecommunications
industry? How does the relationship between technology/service developers and
client firms affect product and ...more
The Effect of Customer Feedback and Organizational Learning on Product Innovation
What is the role of customer feedback and organizational learning in the design of new generation of products?
The IT Revolution and Globalization
The adoption of computers and related innovations (e.g. the
invention of the internet) as well as the (consequent) process of globalization
is causing organizational change within companies, between companies within an
industry and ...more
The New Economics of Amazon
Due to the recent introduction of network technologies,
there now is a growing importance of organizations operating online trading
platforms such as Amazon, eBay or Monster.com. This project models and
empirically tests the optimal behaviour of these ...more
Economic History of Innovations
Current times are often perceived as times of rapid
technological progress, also called the IT Revolution or the arrival of the New
Economy. This projects compares the economic impact of the recent IT Revolution
with other periods of ...more
Creativity in Cross-Functional and Interdisciplinary Teams
How do differences in the underlying perspectives and
assumptions of group members shape the nature and ultimate creativity of small
groups? How does the creative process differ in such diverse teams from more
homogeneous teams?
Exploring the Creative Process in Healthcare Policy Teams
This project explores the creative processes that occur
naturally in interdisciplinary teams developing healthcare IT policy. How does
engagement with different types of processes influence the generation and
selection of new ideas in ....more
Enhancing R&D productivity through academic collaborations
The study’s database comprises detailed information on activities in the academic community of 4,780 American and British science-based firms and the impact of these activities on R&D productivity. Findings outline strategic trade-offs ...more.
Managing science-led innovation in high-tech firms
Which organizational levers do managers have at their disposal in organizing science-led R&D? Case studies highlight formal structures, routines, and cultures that distinguish successful science-based ventures (International workshop planned at ...more.
Commercializing disruptive technologies: Venture creation and the choice of business model
Commercializing disruptive technologies: Business models for a rough financial
climate ..more.
General Management
Richard’s work
‘Introduction to Management’ is now in its fourth edition; and a re-worked
version is to be published in the Autumn of 2011 (published by Palgrave
Macmillan).
Investment Appraisal: a managerial approach
An evaluation of the full context in which investment decisions
are made, and results produced (published by Macmillan)
Performance and performance management
A crystallisation, analysis and evaluation of the strengths
and shortcomings of how managers and organisations assess and evaluate their
own performance for success and otherwise (published by Pearson).
Managing creativity by design: Coordinating creative inputs in comic strip production
Can task design stand as a recipe for creativity? Or is it
that due process and accountability doesn’t agree with designer stubble and
artistic panache? This study investigates the relationships ...more.
Web 2.0 content
Is it possible to make profit with web 2.0 content? (published in Prometheus)
Project Leader: Mila Striukova
Patent value
What value can be created from patents and where does it
reside? (published in International
Journal of Intellectual Property Management, Journal of Intellectual Capital, International Journal
of ...more
Project Leader: Mila Striukova
Digital Rights Management
How to design effective Digital Rights Management? (published in Communication and Strategies and International Journal of Intellectual Property Management )
Successful Market entry
Best being the first to market? Think twice (published in International
Journal of Collaborative Enterprise and International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological
Innovation).
Intellectual capital value
How can company’s intellectual capital be classified and
reported? (published in The British
Accounting Review and Strategic Change)
Project Leader: Mila Striukova
Public Venture Capital
Do Venture Capital trust solve the problem of
underinvestment in young companies? (published in International Journal of
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management)
Managing Trade-Offs Within and Across Decision Domains: Continuity, Change and New Product Success
Little is known about the mix of decisions through which innovators manage trade-offs between continuity and change. We leverage behavioral tracking data regarding the global music ...more.
Bridges or Isolates? The Effect of Patenting on the Networks and Connections of Academic Scientists
Patenting by academic scholars presents a number of issues and opportunities. We analyse the acquaintances of a sample of academic inventors and their paired controls to ...more.
Best Quality Ideas and Rent Appropriation: How Innovation Contests Affect Individual Search Behaviors
The use of innovation contests is burgeoning, and increasingly larger cash prizes are being offered to foster the conversion of promising ideas into specific social and economic benefits. We ...more.
Mining the Web for Modern Greenbacks: An Empirical Investigation of Crowdfunding
Crowdsourced fund-raising services are increasingly been used to connect projects with patrons. We investigate the characteristics of more than 6000 crowdfunded projects across a ...more.
Vision vs. Execution: A Construal Level Perspective on Contextual Ambidexterity
Pressures for strategic renewal and adaptation lead managers to engage in paradoxical thinking for trying to reconcile trade-offs between continuity and change. We explore the relation ...more.
For the Very First Time: Continuity and Change Before and After an IPO
Companies and managers are constantly challenged to manage trade-offs between something old and something new. We use patent citation data to describe the search activities of firms and ...more.
In The Mix: A Dynamic Multidimensional Model of Structural Ambidexterity
Organizational ambidexterity has emerged as a new research paradigm in strategy research. We develop a dynamic and multidimensional model for managing trade-offs between ...more.
Mobilis in Mobili. Navigating Continuity and Change through CVC Investments
We study how firms use Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) to resolve the exploration-exploitation tension overtime across their organizational boundaries. We test our ...more.
From Hero to Zero? Prolonging the Shelf-life of Fads
Individual brands, products or even whole categories that were once appealing for a particular segment, might become irrelevant as society evolves and tastes change. We leverage behavioral tracking data ...more.
General Management
Richard’s work
‘Introduction to Management’ is now in its fourth edition; and a re-worked
version is to be published in the Autumn of 2011 (published by Palgrave
Macmillan).
Investment Appraisal: a managerial approach
An evaluation of the full context in which investment decisions
are made, and results produced (published by Macmillan)
Performance and performance management
A crystallisation, analysis and evaluation of the strengths and shortcomings of how managers and organisations assess and evaluate their own performance for success and otherwise (published by Pearson).
Reputation in Open Source Communities
What determines the reputation and competence in open source communities? (forthcoming in Organization Science)
Evolution of Venture Capital Industry
How do decisions of venture capitalists in syndications affect the evolution of venture capital industry? What are the dynamics of this evolution from a network perspective? (published in Social Networks)
Institutional Logic of Open Source Projects
Why and how do companies compete with or participate in voluntary open source software projects?
Reputations and Perceptions in Organizations
How biased are our perceptions of individual reputations in organizations and how they affect performance?
Investor Driven Innovation
What can we learn from the way professional investors spot winners? (a research note for the Science Business Innovation Board AISBL)
Global Clusters of Innovation Network
This book will compile the analysis of international Clusters of Innovation and the way these clusters collaborate globally.
The Social Networks of High and Low Self Monitors: Implications for Workplace Performance
Is it personality or social network connections that help people do
well in their work, or is it some combination? (Published in
Administrative Science Quarterly in 2001)
Project Leader: Martin Kilduff
Social Network Analysis: Foundations and Frontiers on Advantage
We
provide an overview of social network analysis and discuss frontiers of
advantage contingent on personality, cognition, embeddedness, and
dynamics. (Forthcoming in Annual Review of Psychology)
Project Leader: Martin Kilduff
From Blue Sky Research to Problem Solving: a Philosophy of Science Theory of New Knowledge Production
What are the different kinds of knowledge that are produced, the indicators of progress, the characteristic methods, and the exemplar organizations? (Published in Academy of Management Review in 2011)
Project Leader: Martin Kilduff
A Paradigm Too Far? A Dynamic Stability Reconsideration of the Social Network Research Program
What are the implications of viewing organizational networks as complex adaptive systems that exhibit both persistence and change? (Published in Academy of Management Review in 2006)
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