Based on a random sample of 500 South Yorkshire non-hi-tech manufacturing small, medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) the quantitative findings support the hypothesis that size, strategic, and market orientation associate with innovation. The results show that prospectors are medium-sized companies and small companies, defenders. Prospectors are more innovative and market-oriented than defenders. Th...

Most theorists agree that empathy describes multiple distinct but related processes through which people respond to others’ emotions. These include an ‘affective’ component – vicariously taking on others’ feelings – a ‘cognitive’ component – reasoning about others’ emotions – and a ‘motivational’ component – desiring for others’ emotional states to improve. Psychologists variably name these pie...

objective: an important concept for understanding emotional disorders is emotion regulation. the present study focuses on effectiveness of transdiagnostic therapy on emotion regulation strategies of patients with emotional disorders in comparison with cognitive-behavior therapy. methods: this study was a pretest/posttest randomized control trial. a diagnostically heterogeneous clinical sample o...

product innovation success has very much to do with the development of models ormetaphors that are able to guide actors. one can observe two traditions in thisregard: rational and non-rational models. apparently in the former the model, suchas “development funnel”, is regarded as a mechanism and rigid applicable, picturinginnovation as an orderly, goal-oriented, value-neutral, and systematic pr...

This study examines the influence of different types of diversity, both observable and unobservable, on the creation of innovative ideas. Our framework draws upon theory and research on information processing, social categorization, coordination, and homophily to posit the influence of cognitive, gender, and country diversity on innovation. Our longitudinal model is based on a unique dataset of...