This paper argues that openness to new, unconventional and disruptive ideas has a firstorder impact on creative innovations– innovations that break new ground in terms of knowledge creation. After presenting a motivating model focusing on the choice between incremental and radical innovation, and on how managers of different ages and human capital are sorted across different firms with differen...

Ongoing product design has been defined as a complex problem solving task that is central for the development of new products. Despite its importance, existing work mostly focused on studying how designers' creativity at initial stages influences radical innovations. However, role non-creativity related mechanisms later still not well understood. Our contribution to analyze motivational factors...

The adaptation of the supply chain makes it an effective tool in management a circular economy, as allows aspects sustainability and regeneration to be incorporated into production. However, empirical evidence is still insufficient. In addition, use absorptive capacity theory provides convenient context model that adapted knowledge required for application circularity principles. To study depth...