How do regions enter new and distant technological fields? Who is triggering this process? This work addresses these compelling research questions by investigating the role of migrant inventors in process diversification. Immigrant can indeed act as carriers knowledge across borders influence direction change. We test latter propositions using an original dataset immigrant context European duri...

Viruses are usually thought of as the cause countless diseases. However, in oceans, viruses part natural cycle life and death. This article discusses marine that infect phytoplankton—the tiny micro-algae form base food web affect Earth’s climate. Through an ongoing “arms race” between cells they infect, can promote evolution their hosts, even help hosts acquire genes them survive. By killing ph...

Purpose Chief executive officers (CEOs) are increasingly seen as change agents for gender equality, which means that CEOs have to lead others achieve equality. Much of this leadership is going happen through talk, raises the question how talk about equality act agents. The purpose paper understand arguments deploy. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on interviews with global CEOs, who publicly...

The vital importance of change management in today’s competitive climate has been widely investigated. While the need for successful change management is intensively proclaimed by ‘expert’ consultants, the response for some time has been regarded as falling short of what is required. The heavy emphasis in the literature on a rational-linear approach to understanding organisational change overlo...