Invention Of Tradition Research Articles

Does digital innovation cause better ESG performance? an empirical test of a-listed firms in China

Digital technologies have changed the traditional innovation paradigm. We study the impact of digital innovation on corporate ESG performance using data from China’s A-share listed companies from 2011 to 2021. The results show that (1) digital innovation has a significant and positive impact on ESG performance; (2) digital innovation can improve firm performance and attract the attention of analysts, thereby improving ESG performance; (3) the positive impact of digital innovation on ESG performance is mitigated by corporate financial stability and augmented by institutional investors; and (4) the impact of digital innovation on ESG performance is more pronounced in industries which are nonmanufacturing, industrial digitization, and low-competitive, as well as in firms which are nonstate-owned or enforce executive equity incentives. This study provides a timely assessment of the sustainable value of digital innovation and enriches the research on the impacts of corporate ESG performance.

Keeping track of cleantech development using innovation clusters and member’s website data: Evidence from leading energy clusters in Germany

The main research question addressed in this work is how energy clusters can be evaluated and what general conclusions can be drawn out of their activities. Traditional innovation cluster analysis approaches chiefly rely on surveys, interviews, open publications, and patents—lack of using updated activities of innovation clusters. Therefore, preceding cluster analysis methodologies always lack of providing up-to-date information. In this sense, analyzing energy cluster activities is an obvious interest for policymakers, investors, companies, etc. Moreover, such assessment help to track the development of new technologies, participation of different actors in an innovation ecosystem, and emerging topics in the energy sector. This work presents the research outcomes on the leading energy-innovation clusters in Germany. To this end, this paper exploits the publicly available website data from the clusters and member’s web-pages to investigate their geographical distribution, key focus areas, cluster, and member activities. In the course of the project, a web-scraping tool has been developed to crawl the clusters and member’s websites and scrape their text data. The tool performs systematic and guided web-scraping for searching a keyword presence on a particular web-page. In addition to this, data from commercially available company databases are used to complement the missing information from the website data. A total of 44 energy clusters along with 4524 members are taken into account in this study. The proposed methodology has shown that unstructured web-data is a valuable source for analyzing the clusters and their member’s innovation activities. Results have also indicated that there is a strong correlation (r=0.85) between Research and Development (R&D) expenditure and cluster count in individual federal states. The overall results have indicated that the majority of energy clusters are very specialized in certain topics, nevertheless, topics such as hydrogen, carbon, and bioenergy are getting notable attention from various stakeholders. Simultaneously, various cross-sectoral topics are also emerging due to the coupling between different sectors. Findings could help policymakers and federal innovation agencies to understand the ongoing progress in cleantech innovation activities. From the methodological point of the view, it provides an underlying ground to access the impact of cluster policies.

The (re)invention of tradition in higher education research: 1976–2021

ABSTRACT Reflection on the meaning of the word ‘tradition’, and related terms such as ‘traditional’, is conceptually complex but has been subject to limited critical scrutiny within academic discourse. The evidence of this study, drawing on the theory of tradition and a database of all 6947 papers published in Studies in Higher Education between 1976 and 2021, is that higher education researchers make extensive use of these words in a routinised and often un-scholarly way. The language of tradition is frequently invoked as an emotive means to both resist and argue for change in higher education often framed as a dualism where the words tradition or traditional are deployed as positives or pejoratives. Despite the intensification of empirical work since the 1970s and 1980s, and the increasingly international authorship of Studies of Higher Education, use of tradition as a rhetorical device continues to play a significant role in the literature. As the paper illustrates, this has contributed to the creation and perpetuation of myths about students, universities and academic work.

Factors that make open innovation more successful than traditional approaches

PurposeFour management capabilities for successfully operationalizing open innovation are: strategy and culture, ecosystem capability, internal capability and technology enablement. Surveying more than 1,000 executives on current open innovation practices and capabilities, IBM IBV was able to identify how the different operating model capabilities interact and complement each other to drive better innovation and business performance.Design/methodology/approachTo help organizations build and improve their open innovation capabilities, the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) partnered with APQC to develop the Ecosystem-Enabled Innovation Maturity Model (EEIMM) - an open standards model encompassing four domain competencies required for successful open innovation. To assess the maturity and benchmark the performance of organizations’ open innovation capabilities, the IBV, in collaboration with Oxford Economics, used the EEIMM to survey over 1000 leaders responsible for open innovation at their organizations.FindingsFour management capabilities for successfully operationalizing open innovation are: strategy and culture, ecosystem capability, internal capability and technology enablement. IBV analysis found that organizations that are more advanced in developing the four building blocks see significantly better performance across key financial and innovation metrics.Practical implicationsFor every dollar of investment, the proportion of direct revenue attributed to open innovation is four times higher than for traditional innovation.Originality/valueLeading organizations are embracing open innovation as a critical component of innovation strategy and investment. They recognize that adopting open innovation yields far greater returns than traditional innovation can. Recent research by the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBM IBV) reveals, for example, that as many as 84 percent of executives now view open innovation as important for their organization’s future growth.

St Teresa and the sisters of Bethany: use and innovation in the exegetical tradition

St Teresa and the sisters of Bethany: use and innovation in the exegetical tradition

LOYALTY PERSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESS MARKETING ABILITY TO INNOVATE AND PERFORM GOOD

The production environment has changed to a knowledge and technology system. Competition in the marketing system has also evolved into a more global and innovation system, becoming a competitive environment in most countries and businesses. Companies must evolve and innovate to deal with intense competition and shifting consumer demands if they hope to succeed in the long term in today's global market economy. Small and medium-sized enterprises must seek new motivations and business strategies to better develop new goods and services and take into account new information and technological advances. For businesses to grow, innovation is essential. Traditional innovation literature, first published in 1934, focuses on the factory sector, competitive markets and developed economies. Compared to other countries, Indonesia has a much higher proportion of small businesses per capita. Over the years, SMEs have contributed to developing countries in Asia (including ASEAN). Small and medium-sized enterprises are cited in ASEAN countries as a key driver of economic growth and development, the foundation of national economies, the highest-paying industry, and a potential tool for poverty reduction. Especially after the Asian financial crisis, including Indonesia.

Macro and Micro Environmental Perspectives on the Ability of SME Business to Innovate and Perform Good

The production environment has changed to a knowledge and technology system, and competition has also developed into a more global and innovation system, becoming a competitive environment in most countries and businesses. Companies must evolve and innovate to deal with intense competition and shifting consumer demands if they hope to succeed over the long term in today's global market economy. Small and medium enterprises should seek new business motivations and strategies to better develop new goods and services and take new information and technological advances into account. For a business to grow, innovation is essential. The traditional innovation literature, first published in 1934 by Joseph Schumpeter, focuses on the manufacturing sector and the level of competition in advanced markets and economies. Compared to other countries, Indonesia has a much higher proportion of small businesses per capita. Over the years, SMEs have made a significant contribution to developing countries in Asia (including ASEAN). SMEs are cited in ASEAN countries as a key driver of economic growth and development, the foundation of the national economy, the highest paying industry, and a potential tool for reducing poverty. Especially after the Asian financial crisis, including Indonesia's SMEs which are strategic in private sector growth.

Disadvantaged Balkans. Trauma "Berlin Peace Treaty" in the Memory of Bulgarians and Serbs

The text further develops the author's earlier thesis about the typologies of Bulgarian and Serbian nationalism as dependent on collective memory – heroic or traumatic. And – to some extent – gets into an argument with her. The article examines the reactions of Bulgarian and Serbian society to the decisions of the Berlin Treaty (1878), which proved traumatic for both sides – regardless of the differences in the status of the one and the other. The Berlin Treaty — if it did not cause, it — legitimized four wars, became the starting point for aspirations for the redistribution of the peninsula and a source of traumatic memory. Although the subsequent victories and battles alternate with different intensity, the core elements of national identity remain the series of "Golgotha" (in the Serbian case) and "national catastrophes" (in the Bulgarian). Collective memory, of course, can undergo reversals – depending on the needs of a particular political situation and on the "invention of tradition" to serve this situation.

RESTORATION OF TRADITIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROVINCIAL SLOBOZHANSKY SACRED ARCHITECTURE

In this way, the two living cosmos of the spiritual and sacred - ethnos and theos - are combined again, the times of the creation of elite (aristocratic-official) architectural and artistic culture - the baroque and classicist tradition - are combined with the continuous time-space of folk sacred culture. The meaningful series of complex and largely forgotten spiritual symbols, which, however, constitute the deep essence of the folk tradition, are reunited. It has been proven. that the first nationally conscious and effective searches for a new uniqueness and originality of national architecture and art originate precisely from the era of modernism and ethnically rooted folk-style (national-romantic) architecture genetically related to this trend. It has been proven that one of the Slobojan architects who successfully developed deep traditions of temple architecture in the modern era was the last Kharkiv diocesan architect (1907-1917) Volodymyr Mykolayovych Pokrovsky. Namagannya yaknaishvidshe to remember three-quarters of the delay in an hour of miserable panuvannya of the atheistic sovereign doctrine of the treasury of sacral architecture once again forced professional designers to turn around until the nadban of the past. After a long break and severe wrongful losses, the creative artists of susilla and mystetsky distillation in the gallery mastered the new and traditional plastic richness of modern church symbols. As in the largest places and creative processes, the processes are least painless, in the regional periphery there is a pardon and a little mor. And it’s not less than the fact that the most ruins appeared here in the past, ale th, the main rank, the one who traditional innovations at the most important gallery, the sacred everyday life was long overdue, stretching out life for many generations, pcs scientifically rapist prizupineno. Tim more importantly assess the whole depth of the living tradition of Slobozhan sacred architecture can be directly far away. Keywords: development, principles, foundations, sacred architecture, regional traditions.

Tea Art

This paper sheds light on the operative dynamics of Chinese Contemporary Tea Art, eschewing a formalist reading that equates it with the gongfu ceremony, taking as a jumping-off point instead the Chinese terms that are usually translated into Tea Art: chayi and chadao. I analyze Tea Art through analytics that are raised by its own practitioners, namely the interrelated yet irreducible logics of yi and dao. First, I analyze the yi logic of chayi, demonstrating how the aesthetic register of Tea Art evokes broader, historically rooted ideas about the role of aesthetics as a vector for the moral transformation of society. Second, I turn to the dao logic of chadao, where I illustrate the ways in which Tea Art practice incorporates popular discourses on the interconnectedness of humans and their environment through interpretations of the dao and its adjacent concepts, transforming it into a modality of self-work that reconfigures one’s relationship to self, other, and nature. Third, I place the rise of Tea Art in a sociocultural context to demonstrate that it is neither the revival of an ancient Chinese tradition nor a purely invented tradition but rather a highly complex contemporary phenomenon built at a critical juncture of the Chinese modernization project where urbanites have increasingly pondered issues of spiritual and psychological well-being.

수신서 『유학강요』의 위상과 ‘전통의 발명’ -일본인물의 ‘위인화’를 중심으로-

수신서 『유학강요』의 위상과 ‘전통의 발명’ -일본인물의 ‘위인화’를 중심으로-

Unpacking the intellectual structure of ecosystem research in innovation studies

In light of the scattered nature of extant ecosystem literature, we seek to (1) identify the intellectual structure and theoretical roots of ecosystem literature within the broader field of innovation, and (2) take stock of how ecosystem research enriches and extends the innovation literature. Based on a bibliometric analysis of innovation and management journals over the past 30 years, we identify three lineages of ecosystem research within the “umbrella” of innovation studies. The first lineage finds its theoretical roots in the literature of product and architecture innovation. The second follows the lineage of open innovation and innovation strategy. The third adopts the traditions of regional innovation and entrepreneurship. Further, we offer an extended-boundary model that features two sets of synopses, explicating ecosystems' contributions to the field of innovation. The first set demonstrates how the ecosystem concept extends the three lineages with its unique attributes from a meta-organisational perspective, i.e., consumption-side synergies, boundary spanning and self-organisation. The second indicates how the concept may be repositioned on the foundational economic theories, i.e., Schumpeterian Innovation and Transaction Cost Economics, and advance how it may integrate the two schools and extend their research implications vis-à-vis profiting from, organising for, and outcomes of innovation. We contribute by organising the fragmented ecosystem literature into an integrative framework, forging stronger links with traditional innovation theories, and offering a cumulative theoretical basis for this promising concept to further flourish in the field of innovation studies.

IMAGES OF POLITICAL ISLAM IN THE DUNE NOVELS: IMAGINATION AND INVENTION OF JIHAD AS A POLITICAL PROTEST

Background. The author analyzes the texts of the Dune cycle in contexts of contemporary historiography, which proposed universal methods that allow analyzing “oriental” images in literature through the prism of constructing and deconstructing the narratives that form the image of Islam.
 Purpose. The purpose of the article is an “orientalist” reinterpretation of Islamic images in the novels belonging to the Dune cycle, including the texts of the original cycle and prequels presented by Dune, Dune Messiah, Dune. Butlerian Jihad and Dune. Paul.
 Materials and methods. The author uses the methodological tools offered in intellectual history and studies of nationalism, including the concept of the invention of traditions, which allows us to analyze the images of Islam in science fiction as one of the invented traditions of American mass literature using the texts of the Dune cycle as sources corpus. Orientalism as a method is used to analyze Muslim motifs in the prose of F. Herbert, B. Herbert and K. Anderson, which, as the author believes, were inspired by political, ideological and religious stimuli. The author believes that the orientalist approach is an effective interpretative model for an interdisciplinary analysis of American science fiction as a space for the development of Islamic images.
 Results. It is shown that the novels through the prism of images of Islam actualize and promote a unique ideological discourse and political message. The features and forms of political protest under religious Muslim slogans are analyzed. It is studied how the mobilization potential of political Islam is perceived as a form of legitimization of social and economic protest. An expanded understanding of jihad as both a religious war and a social class conflict is analyzed. It is shown that 1) the actualization of Muslim images in American science fiction was the result of the political activation of the East, 2) the authors of the texts actualized the anti-authoritarian and emancipatory potential of Islam.

IMAGES OF JIHAD AND PROBLEMS OF LEGITIMATION OF RELIGIOUS PROTEST AS A FORM OF CLASS CONFLICT AND SOCIAL LIBERATION

Background. The author analyzes the texts of the Dune cycle in contexts of modern historiography, including its universal methods that allow analyzing “oriental” images in literature through the prism of constructing and deconstructing narratives that form the image of Jihad as a form of political, social and religious struggle of oppressed communities and minorities.
 Purpose. The purpose of the article is an “orientalist” reinterpretation of the images of Jihad in the novels belonging to the Dune cycle including the prequel text presented by Dune. Butlerian Jihad and Dune. Paul.
 Materials and methods. The author uses the methodological tools of intellectual history and studies of nationalism, including the concept of the invention of traditions, which allows to analyze the images of Jihad in science fiction as one of the invented traditions of mass US science fiction literature using the texts of the Dune cycle. Orientalism as a method is used to analyze Muslim motifs in the prose of F. Herbert, B. Herbert and K. Anderson, which, as the author of the article presumes, were inspired by political, ideological and religious stimuli. The author states that the orientalist approach can be an effective interpretative model for an interdisciplinary analysis of American science fiction as a cultural landscape for the development of Jihad images in the Western intellectual tradition of the consumer society.
 Results. The ideological and political foundations for the development of images of Jihad as a social concept of American science fiction are studied in the article. The article analyzes the ideological origins, as well as the political prototypes and archetypes of the Muslim radicals of the Dune cycle. The author analyzes the ideological discourse of radical Islamism, presented in American mass culture through the prism of religious war images as attempts to implement the doctrine and social liberation. The article analyzes the attempts of American writers to form a positive and attractive image of a radical political protest under religious Muslim slogans. Therefore, it is shown that American science fiction prose actualized the mobilization potential of Islamism, imagining and inventing it as a form of legitimate social and economic protest of the oppressed masses against discrimination. The author presumes that some American authors revised the images of Jihad, offering its interpretation as a radical social and class protest based on religious legitimation.

IMAGES OF THE UMMAH AND MUSLIMS IN THE NOVELS OF THE DUNE CYCLE: IMITATION AND SIMULATION

Background. The author analyzes the texts of the Dune cycle in contexts of the achievements of interdisciplinary historiography, which proposed universal methods that allow analyzing “Oriental” images in literature through the prism of constructing and deconstructing the narratives that form the image of Islam.
 Purpose. The purpose of the article is an “Orientalist” reinterpretation of Islamic images in the novels belonging to the Dune cycle, including the texts of the original cycle and prequels presented by Dune, Dune Messiah, Dune. Butlerian Jihad and Dune. Paul.
 Materials and methods. The author uses the methodological tools offered in intellectual history and studies of nationalism, including the concept of the invention of traditions, which allows us to analyze the images of Islam in science fiction as one of the invented traditions of American mass literature using the texts of the Dune cycle as sources corpus. Orientalism as a method is used to analyze Muslim motifs in the prose of F. Herbert, B. Herbert and K. Anderson, which, as the author believes, were inspired by political, ideological and religious stimuli. The author believes that the orientalist approach is an effective interpretative model for an interdisciplinary analysis of American science fiction as a space for the development of Islamic images.
 Results. The texts of the Dune cycle are reinterpreted as attempts to assimilate and imitate the images of Islam in popular culture. Oriental political and ideological backgrounds for the development of Muslim images in American science fiction are studied. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the political message broadcast by the novels of the Dune cycle with the help of images of Islam. The author analyzes Muslim images through the prism of their imitation and simulation in the novels that form the Dune cycle. The author believes that the analyzed texts, being part of the wide discourse of Western cultural and political Orientalism, form the image of Islam accessible for understanding and consumption in the mass culture of modern society.

Fluidity and Hybridity of Customary Marriage Traditions in Contemporary Uganda

The ideology that customary marriages are celebrated according to ancestral traditions and customs is rife in Africa. There is however continuous invention and evolution of institutions associated with customary marriage rendering it burdensome to trace the visibility of ancient ‘traditions’ therein. This argument is anchored in the theoretical perspective of ‘invention of tradition’, to analyse the extent to which the celebration of customary marriages in Uganda has maintained the ancestral ‘traditional’ status quo owing to the influences of colonisation, westernisation globalisation and modernisation. Busoga, a predominantly Bantu ethnic society, is used as a representative case for this analysis. Using a historical and ethnographic approach, it was established that there is a lot of fluidity and hybridity of contemporary traditions upon which these marriages are celebrated. The notion that customary marriages are celebrated based on past traditions is a fallacy, although at best, efforts have been invested to dramatise past traditions in contemporary settings. Key words: Marriage, Customary, Traditions, Culture, Traditional Marriage, Invention, Busoga, Uganda

Employee Incentives and Family Firm Innovation: A Configurational Approach

According to family business theory and practice, family firms often face a paradoxical tension between their anchorage to the past and the need to renew and innovate to remain competitive, which often hampers innovation. Given that innovation is inherently a social process that depends on the knowledge and creativity of an organization’s people, employee incentives may be key to managing the tradition–innovation paradox and unlocking a family firm's innovation potential. However, current research has not addressed how family firms can effectively configure incentives to promote innovation. Drawing on a configurational approach and the unique properties of the qualitative comparative analysis method, our study reveals that the set of incentives that family firms use to motivate their employees toward innovation differs in relation to whether they are more or less attached to tradition. As such, in line with the principle of equifinality, family firms with high attachment to tradition can be as innovative as those with low attachment to tradition by implementing the right configuration of incentives. Thus, we offer a human resource management perspective on innovation that advances knowledge on how family firms can unlock their innovation potential.

Is subversion just another version of state aversion? Notes on Herzfeld’s Subversive archaism

Is subversion just another version of state aversion? Notes on Herzfeld’s <i>Subversive archaism</i>

INVENTION OF TRADITIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN IN THE ASPECT OF ETHNIC IDENTITY

The article analyzes the reasons for the invention of new traditions during the formation of independent Kazakhstan. The author relied on a constructivist approach in the study of ethnic processes. The theory of constructivism assumes that the ethnos is an artificial formation, the result of the creation and activity of the people themselves. The author has established the relationship between the mythologization of history, the invention of traditions and the creation of a national state. Different interpretations of common historical events lead to the birth of historical myths, which later turn into “memory wars” between nations. The invented traditions are used in solving collective tasks. The author comes to the conclusion that traditional institutions, which are the legacy of past eras, play a significant role in the life of modern Kazakhstan. Often, many open “Kazakh” traditions are relatively new, at least in the form in which they were introduced after independence, which is why we are talking about “invented traditions”. Mythologized history educates citizens as heirs of a great and strong nation. Invented traditions also contribute to strengthening these views. Ethnicity drives people’s actions and gives them a sense of life. Belief in a long common history strengthens and legitimizes ethnic ties of Kazakhs. The invented traditions are used in solving collective tasks.

Planning for the Aftermath. Longue Durée Histories for a New International Legal Order in Kelsen, Lauterpacht and De Visscher

Abstract As early as the 1930s, the development of plans for an international legal order to be created in the aftermath of the Second World War were commonplace. This particularly concerned a group of refugee scholars hailing from the German-speaking academic world. The plans of three scholars that were personally affected by the Nazi regime are discussed, those of Hans Kelsen, Hersch Lauterpacht and Charles De Visscher. This contribution compares the plans of the three scholars as formulated in the period between 1934 and 1947, as well as the historical narratives at their core, and ventures to answer the question whether these narratives should be seen as ‘invented traditions’ or that the scholars perceive them as significant and crucial stages of development at the basis of their plans for a post-War international legal order.