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Global value chain reconfiguration and COVID-19: Investigating the case for more resilient redistributed models of production (2022)
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The COVID-19 pandemic shocked the global economy, laying bare the coordination challenges and vulnerabilities of global value chains (GVCs) across sectors. Governments, consumers, and firms alike have called for greater GVC resilience to ensure criti... Read More about Global value chain reconfiguration and COVID-19: Investigating the case for more resilient redistributed models of production.

Emerging technologies in emergency situations (Guest editorial) (2021)
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The world is witnessing an unprecedented upheaval in global operations and supply chains (Azadegan & Dooley, 2021; Scholten et al., 2020). Increasingly occurring natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic have plunged organisations into a state of e... Read More about Emerging technologies in emergency situations (Guest editorial).

Responding to information asymmetry in crisis situations: Innovation in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic (2021)
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Crises test the resilience of public service organizations. Healthcare providers must respond and innovate within tight constraints to address challenges. Presenting COVID-19 as a knowable unknown (black swan event), we adopt information processing t... Read More about Responding to information asymmetry in crisis situations: Innovation in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Distributed manufacturing: A new form of localised production? (2020)
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Purpose: The emergence of distributed manufacturing (DM) is examined as a new form of localised production, distinct from previous manifestations of multi-domestic and indigenous production.

Design/methodology/approach: Supply network (SN) config... Read More about Distributed manufacturing: A new form of localised production?.

Developing a typology of the roles public contributors undertake to establish legitimacy: A longitudinal case study of patient and public involvement in a health network (2020)
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Objective To identify how public contributors established their legitimacy in the functioning of a patient and public involvement programme at a health network. Design A longitudinal case study with three embedded units (projects) involving public co... Read More about Developing a typology of the roles public contributors undertake to establish legitimacy: A longitudinal case study of patient and public involvement in a health network.

Redistributed manufacturing – challenges for operations management (2019)
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Recent advances in small-scale local production technologies and materials sciences, combined with the power of digital design and analysis methods, have generated new opportunities for product innovators to experiment with rapid prototyping and comm... Read More about Redistributed manufacturing – challenges for operations management.

Going it alone won’t work! The relational imperative for social innovation in social enterprises (2017)
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Shifts in the philosophy of the “state” and a growing emphasis on the “Big Society” have placed an increasing onus on a newly emerging organizational form, social enterprises, to deliver innovative solutions to ease societal issues. However, the ques... Read More about Going it alone won’t work! The relational imperative for social innovation in social enterprises.

Distributed manufacturing: scope, challenges and opportunities (2016)
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© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This discussion paper aims to set out the key challenges and opportunities emerging from distributed manufacturing (DM). We begin by describing the concept, available definitions and con... Read More about Distributed manufacturing: scope, challenges and opportunities.

Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship: A Systematic Review (2015)
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© The Author(s) 2014. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature suggests CSR initiatives extend beyond meeting the immediate interests of stakeholders of for-profit enterprises, offering the potential to also enhance performance. Growing disil... Read More about Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship: A Systematic Review.

Change management in the public sector: The use of cross-functional teams (2013)
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Adoption of change management best practices continues to be offered as a route towards improved cost, quality and productivity of public services. These approaches are predominantly drawn from private sector research and their application by the pub... Read More about Change management in the public sector: The use of cross-functional teams.

Discontinuous innovation: A challenge for purchasing (2012)
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Purpose of this paper
This paper investigates the question: What are the challenges to the purchasing function when faced with discontinuous innovation? The paper defines discontinuous innovation, differentiating it from other forms of innovation, a... Read More about Discontinuous innovation: A challenge for purchasing.

Customer-supplier relationships during the process of innovation: An innovation systems approach (2012)
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Adopting an innovation systems approach, this paper addresses how institutions in supply markets, in the institutional economics sense of informal constraints and formal rules, influence the innovation process between firms. Within an innovation sys... Read More about Customer-supplier relationships during the process of innovation: An innovation systems approach.

Public procurement of innovations, diffusion and endogenous institutions (2011)
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Purpose: Public procurement has been increasingly seen as an important innovation policy tool. One neglected aspect of the public procurement of innovation is, however, diffusion. The purpose of this paper is to counter this neglect by exploring how... Read More about Public procurement of innovations, diffusion and endogenous institutions.

The difficulties of supplying new technologies into highly regulated markets: The case of tissue engineering (2011)
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This study provides an insight into the difficulties companies encounter in transposing basic science into commercially viable healthcare technologies, focusing on the issue of establishing a dominant supply model within a highly regulated market. Th... Read More about The difficulties of supplying new technologies into highly regulated markets: The case of tissue engineering.

Analysing customer-supplier relationships in the process of innovation: An innovation systems approach (2011)
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Adopting an innovation systems approach, this paper addresses how institutions in supply markets, in the institutional economics sense of informal constraints and formal rules, influence the innovation process between firms. Within an innovation sys... Read More about Analysing customer-supplier relationships in the process of innovation: An innovation systems approach.