Moment Of Innovation Research Articles

Innovation amnesia: Technology as a substitute for politics

This paper outlines a theory of amnesia in the face of innovation: when apparent technological innovations occasion the disregard of preexisting cultural, legal, and infrastructural norms. Innovation amnesia depends on cultural patterns that appear to be increasingly widespread: the valorization of technological innovation and the sensation of limited political space for reforming social arrangements. The resulting amnesia is by default an extension of existing structural inequalities. If innovations arise through deploying concentrated private wealth, the amnesia will likely target institutions that facilitate collective power among less powerful people. Up and down social hierarchies, however, achieving amnesia through innovation can bear irresistible allure. When other paths for structural change become mired in inertia or gridlock, amnesia may appear to be the only available pathway to reform. The purpose of a theory of amnesia is to assist affected communities in noticing it when it occurs and wielding it to their advantage, particularly through mobilizing self-governance around moments of innovation.

Chinese Religious Practice as Protest

This essay explores how and why protestors from the 2019 anti-ELAB (Extradition Law Amendment Bill) movement turned to popular Chinese religious practice for political dissent, and simultaneously tracks the negotiation of emerging sociocultural identities of Hong Kongers in the face of political upheaval. Attempting to pressure the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government into meeting their demands, protestors adopted a wide range of tactics that brought protest activities to previously unaffected residential districts. Although no less hectic than other months during the movement, August 2019 also produced indelible moments of nonviolent innovation that attracted international media coverage. One of the protest events from this fertile period, the Hong Kong–wide Night Assemblies for Freeing Spirits, Almsgiving, Prayers for Merit, and Removal of Evil 全港超幽佈施祈褔除惡晚會, was held on August 9, 2019, in the districts of Wong Tai Sin and Shatin and specifically centered religious practice as a creative and potent source of political expression. To better understand this intersection of religion, politics, and identity in Hong Kong, this article analyzes protestors’ ritual utterances and interview responses from the protest event's proceedings.

Experiential Marketing for Online Shopping Innovation: A Correlation in the Fashion Industry

The fashion industry is in a moment of change and innovation due to the growth of e-commerce and many companies have to adapt their physical stores to online stores. This is a great opportunity for the growth of female entrepreneurship as it highlights their ability in the sector. The present research work was carried out with the objective of determining the influence of experiential marketing in the online purchase decision in the field of fashion in people between 18 and 35 years of age in Metropolitan Lima. Throughout the study, information about experiential marketing is known, as well as the current situation of e-commerce in Peru and relevant information about the fashion industry in the country. This study was conducted with a quantitative approach and a non-experimental design of correlational scope. The study instrument was applied to a sample of people who met the established criteria. A probabilistic sampling was applied, the sample size was 384 people between the ages of 18 and 35 years, residents of Metropolitan Lima (capital of Peru), men and women, who are online buyers of fashion items; the collection of information was done through the Google Forms platform. The descriptive statistical analysis of the data was performed in the SPSS statistical program, in terms of inferential statistics, Spearman's Rho was applied to determine the relationship between both variables. The results show that the factors most valued by the respondents in relation to the experiential marketing variable are: tangibility, purchase experience and exclusivity of the product; and in terms of the purchase decision, the following stand out: available information, ease of use, trust and ease of exchange or returns. Finally, we conclude on the relationship between both variables knowing that experiential marketing is positively related to the online purchase decision. Thus, this research can contribute to those companies that do not apply experiential marketing by explaining the importance of creating strategies to influence the purchase decision in online sales channels.

Abstraction, idealization, and concretization: A discussion of Leszek Nowak’s interpretation of Karl Marx’s method

In this article, an interpretation of Marx’s notions of abstraction and concretization is presented. Unlike Leszek Nowak’s approach, Marx’s use of idealizations is not a reversible process of adding and removing idealizing assumptions. Marx had a richer use of the term abstraction, one in which concretization involves a creative moment of conceptual innovation. Marx adds new variables and new assumptions and elaborates new categories at different levels of abstraction in order to show the unity between appearances and essences. De-idealization, according to Marx, involves both recomposition and de-isolation. Also, concretization, for Marx, does not follow a linear approximation to reality, but rather a hermeneutical circle that is constantly in the process of reframing categories to provide answers to different questions. As a case study, this article shows an interpretation of Marx’s labor theory of value.

Reliquary Tabernacles in Fourteenth-Century Italy: Image, Relic and Material Culture, by Beth Williamson

The protagonists of this book are eleven fourteenth-century reliquary tabernacles. They all hail from Siena, though have ended up in collections across Europe and the US, from Baltimore and Cleveland to Lyon, London, Florence and Milan. Some are moderately well known and on public view; others are little studied and in private hands. Three-dimensional objects that were meant to be carried in procession or which formed the focal point for intense personal devotions have been transformed into flat things, displayed on walls, and often mutilated in the process. The gilded glass Virgin Enthroned, wrenched from its tabernacle (now in Cleveland), has found its resting place in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. A panel depicting the standing Virgin and Child by Pietro Lorenzetti, acquired by Bernard Berenson in 1903 for the Villa I Tatti, turns out to be the other side of an Enthroned Redeemer, now in private ownership in Milan. All but two of the surviving tabernacles have been denuded of their relics. In this work of impressive scholarship, Beth Williamson reconstructs these fragmented objects as whole pieces, made of paint and wood, of stones and human bones, animated by their materials and by devotion. At the same time, Williamson brings these scattered pieces back into conversation with one another. She argues that they belong to a particular moment of artistic innovation and reveals the importance of multi-materiality and inter-mediality in shaping their distinctive character.

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger as a Philosopher of Time.

When Hans‐Jörg Rheinberger proposed the concept of epistemic things, he drew inspiration from the art historian George Kubler, who had considered the aesthetic object as resulting from problem‐solving processes in The Shape of Time (1962). Kubler also demonstrated that a sequence of objects could retrace the progress that led to a solution that was afterwards accepted as the most classical. Parallel to Kubler, Rheinberger demonstrates how temporally extended activities of experimentation are condensed in the object, revealing the moments of innovation that lead to it. In the history of science as well as in art history, various trajectories can thus be grasped in the materially given. Rheinberger conceives of an object as a network of heterogeneous time strings. However, these are manifold: they cannot be thought of as making up a homogeneous temporality encompassing all the others as a temporal container and synchronizing them within it. Since the discovery of the Anthropocene, we no longer separate natural from cultural time, and no hegemonic historical narrative can be taken as unifying all the others. Historical epistemology as proposed by Rheinberger will be read as a contribution to constructing new models of natural as well as of cultural time.

ПРОБЛЕМА ОЦЕНКИ ЭФФЕКТИВНОСТИ МОДЕРНИЗАЦИИ ПРОЦЕССА ПРИНЯТИЯ УПРАВЛЕНЧЕСКИХ РЕШЕНИЙ В ОРГАНИЗАЦИЯХ ВЫСШЕГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ

In modern world research and realization management’s solutions is dif cult point, and we using some ways to decide it. This problem has been actually in moment of fast tactical progress and innovation and when we start to integrate education organizations. In has been produced new problems in research and realization of management solution. We try to modern our management in education and face with fierce problems because of specifics of education sphere and social internality of this one. In this article author make decision for grade efficient problem.

Modelling change in self‐narratives and embodied experience: A multicase study and autoethnography

AbstractThe article documents a multicase study of the researcher’s own clinical work with four clients who each presented with embodied expressions of distress. The researcher practised within a ‘narrative‐dialogical’ framework and set out to build theories of therapeutic change. However, a parallel thesis emerged during the project: an autoethnographic account in which the researcher’s uses of supervision, personal therapy, dreams and life events capture data on the ways in which the therapist’s theories of change are modelled in the therapeutic space—with varying degrees of confidence and success. Sessions were audio‐recorded and coded for qualitative markers indicating the emergence of novel self‐narratives. A reflexive narrative running throughout the work highlights the superordinate role of reflexivity in theory development. Therapeutic change was typified by an evolving internalised map of self and world, with corresponding change in embodied experience. The article highlights techniques deployed by the therapist in highlighting and building upon moments of innovation with the therapeutic process. As an analysis of one therapist’s practice and the experiences of their clients, the study generates theories for ongoing exploration and study. The continuous evolution of change concepts reflects the theory‐building work of clinicians in their everyday practice. The study highlights the use of self as research instrument and offers a candid and intimate example of how practitioner research might be structured and delivered.

Future of the national financial market: Moment of innovation by FinTechs in transformation to the national banking environment

The Brazilian banking system is in a stage of maturity conducive to the receipt of a new entrant that, following the global trend, are FinTechs[3]. In this way, these companies that use technology to provide financial services, are beginning to impact the national financial market, bringing with it potential to shake the results of the country’s large financial corporations. This article has a broad overview of the concentration of the national banking market, compared to global standards, as well as the dimensioning of opportunity for new entrants through technologies established by startups[4], in an irreversible process in terms of innovation. The methodology used here was based on a broad literature review resulting in the identification and consequences of the main impacts of this new financial order, in which size is no longer so relevant, given the implementation of new practices for a constantly renewed spectrum of clients. New entrants to the financial market should be truly customer-centric, agile and able to adapt to a rapidly changing environment, skilled at working with companies in a complex ecosystem of partnerships and markets. They should seek excellence in data analysis, dynamic pricing and the construction of technologies that allow new functionalities to be developed and implemented. New needs, practical, without the bank status symbols.

The Roots of Comparative Alterity in Siam: Depicting, describing, and defining the peoples of the world, 1830s–1850s

AbstractThis article identifies a moment of conceptual innovation—the 1830s to the 1850s—in which everyday artists and writers in Siam were tasked with creating comparative representations of the peoples of the world. Although their compositions took a variety of formats, they departed from earlier representations of alterity by devoting equal attention to each ‘type’, including the Thai themselves. This approach is best exemplified in three mid-nineteenth-century works: (1) a set of archetypal portraits of about 20 peoples painted on the shutters of a major Buddhist monastery, (2) sculptures of 32 peoples at the same monastery with a short poem describing each one, and (3) entries defining terms for peoples in an early Thai–Thai dictionary. The systematic formatting of these works drew on similar compositions circulating across the nineteenth-century globe. Yet, despite the presence in Bangkok of foreign interlocutors and imported books and prints, the mid-nineteenth-century compositions preserve ethnic tropes and practices of expression specific to Siam. In addition, the agents of intellectual innovation were not restricted to the usual princely or missionary protagonists. It was a motley cast of anonymous artists, local scholars, and middling officials who tapped traditional genres of composition and local markers of differentiation to render the peoples of the world as comparable, generic, and fixed.

A moment of reflection and innovation in perpetrator studies

A moment of reflection and innovation in perpetrator studies

Becoming Willa Cather: Creation and Career by Daryl W. Palmer (review)

Reviewed by: Becoming Willa Cather: Creation and Career by Daryl W. Palmer Brianna Taylor Daryl W. Palmer. Becoming Willa Cather: Creation and Career. U of Nevada P, 2019. 247p. With Becoming Willa Cather: Creation and Career, a new biography focusing largely on Cather's early writings, Daryl Palmer compellingly examines her personality, relationships, childhood, and writing. It is in equal parts enjoyable and informative for established fans and new readers alike. The initial image of Cather as the "woman on the wheel," a young woman on a bicycle, "moving forward under her own power, aware of her youth and of a certain masculine prowess" (2) depicts her as the "New Woman," persistently moving forward and embracing her masculine personality traits. It continues throughout the book and propels readers through her career at a steady pace. Palmer focuses heavily on her early work--a move that admittedly would have frustrated Cather, who viewed much of it with disdain. However, the examination proves fruitful as it investigates her complicated relationship with Nebraska and the West in more detail than previous scholars, who identified her youthful writings as scornful of her homeland. By studying "the ways in which Cather's negative responses to the Great Plains in her early fiction, as far back as 1896, are interwoven with (and even enable) moments of recognition, resistance, and innovation" (17), this reimagining of her relationship with Nebraska allows a complex investigation of many other aspects of her literary production. Palmer positions her as a distinguished writer who straddles the border between East and West. Despite spending much of her adult life "back East," her childhood connection to the West and the territorial mindset is evident. Her obsession with "townmaking" started at just thirteen years old when she founded the town of Sandy Point in her backyard, enlisting the help of her father and friends. This imaginative endeavor was crucial to her development. The influence of Cather's "mayoral" experience showed her the importance of observation to the creative process (19). This childhood drive to both mimic and amend her hometown of Red Cloud resurfaces in many of her novels and short stories, where the town and its inhabitants are re-imagined. Palmer argues, "ultimately, it was the call of townmaking that really captivated Cather. And, once again, she [End Page 77] was following the example set by the territorial folk who preceded her" (40). Defining her as a follower of "territorial folk" creates a deep and abiding connection to the territory itself, key to understanding her identity as a writer. Cather's townmaking was not limited to construction. By establishing herself as editor of the Sandy Point newspaper, she showed an understanding of the significance of journalism in frontier towns. The territorial tradition of townmaking depended upon newspapers to promote new settlements (40). Palmer traces these dealings with the press through each phase of her career, again demonstrating the influence of her territorial childhood on her works. Because newspapers were so vital to the West, she inherited an appreciation of them as well as townmaking. Although the relationship was often complicated, Cather recognized the power and influence of journalism and editors. From her youthful experience with Red Cloud's competing newspapers, to her time on McClure's editorial board, her townmaking, writing, and editorial careers intertwined. This emphasis on the bonds with Nebraska, where territorial pioneer life could break down the boundaries between masculine and feminine (38), sheds new light on her complicated relationship with gender. The tendency to cast herself as the masculine lead in her stories is much more obvious in the early works, especially when viewed alongside her childhood activities. Weaving biographical details with literary analysis, Palmer demonstrates the complex ways in which Cather was experiencing and portraying gender; her relationship with gender, like everything else, was influenced by her relationship with Nebraska. This allowed her to sign her letters "William," dress in masculine clothes, and represent herself as male in her early stories. "Tommy, the Unsentimental" tells the story of a young woman named Tommy and her experiences in a small Nebraska town. While many critics have observed this aspect of her identity, the connection to "territorial folk" allows Palmer to...

Blake and Exhibitions, 2018

In 2018 a retrospective at Petworth reconsidered Blake’s corpus, focusing on how the experience of the sea and the landscapes of the South Downs affected his work, from the landscapes of the early 1800s to late works such as the Virgil woodcuts and Dante drawings. The works on display also offered an opportunity to reflect on his relationships with key patrons, from William Hayley to Thomas Butts and George O’Brien Wyndham, third Earl of Egremont. In an exhibition held by the Dom Museum, which hosts the collection of Vienna’s cathedral, plates from Blake’s Book of Urizen were displayed alongside illuminated manuscripts and a book sculpture that questioned the primacy of the word. While the Dom Museum placed Blake within medieval, Renaissance, and contemporary visual cultures of the book, Illuminating Poetry: Pre-Raphaelite and Beyond at the Keats-Shelley House in Rome focused on the nineteenth-century legacy of the illuminated book. The desire to reinvent the Middle Ages in different moments of technological innovation shaped Blake’s dialogue with the Pre-Raphaelites and contemporary interpretations of books and stained-glass windows in Visions and Visionaries at the Guildhall Art Gallery in London. In the exhibition Kiss and Tell: Rodin and Suffolk Sculpture at Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich, experiments in the representation of bodies in space included the serpentine groupings of whirling souls captured in Blake’s line engraving “The Circle of the Lustful” from Dante’s Commedia, which was displayed alongside drawings and sculptures from the Pre-Raphaelites to the twentieth century, selected to complement Auguste Rodin’s sculptural group The Kiss. The end of the year also saw Blake’s association with the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landing in The Moon: From Inner Worlds to Outer Space at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, which showed a magnified reproduction of his emblematic etching “I want! I want!” as part of an iconography of the moon from the Incas to Galileo’s map, from the moon race to space colonization.

The National Council for Civil Liberties and the British State during the First World War, 1916–1919

Abstract The First World War saw an unprecedented expansion of the executive powers of the British government that radically changed the relationship between individual citizens and the state. This article offers a new perspective on these developments by analysing the activities of the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) between 1916 and 1918. It explores the emergence of civil liberties activism in Britain during the war and its impact on British political culture. The NCCL became an efficiently organised pressure group, campaigning against press censorship, political policing and the suppression of anti-war dissent. This article argues that the innovative campaigning and propaganda methods used by the NCCL mark a moment of innovation that can be described as a revolution in activism. It represents a shift from the grass-roots political associations of the nineteenth century towards more professional forms of political activism that foreshadowed the rise of modern pressure groups and NGOs. The article also explains the emergence of a new discourse about the relationship between civil liberties, democracy and socialism in Britain during the First World War. The NCCL became an important locus for the networks of protest and dissent that emerged in Britain in response to the expansion of the wartime state. The article thus presents a new perspective on the beginnings of civil liberties activism in Britain and the impact of the First World War on its political culture.

Lifelong learning inspires the creative art of academic writing

IntroductionThis commentary explores the link between lifelong learning and the creative “art” of academic writing. Can lifelong learning have benefits in academic writing? And (correspondingly), can writing help us in our lifelong learning journey? CommentaryAn individual with a lifelong learning habit naturally fuels the fire of repeated moments of creativity and innovation and wants to share these moments with others through a variety of outlets, including writing. As we share our creativity, i.e. our new ideas and innovative solutions, through writing, others read, learn, analyze, synthesize, and innovate further. As we share our creative thoughts and ideas together through writing back and forth, we build a perpetually creating and innovating society. This is the creative “art” of academic writing. ImplicationsBuilding a lifelong-learning habit provides fertile soil within which creative ideas and innovative solutions grow. However, the true beauty of these creations comes from sharing them with others.

Typographic Reification: Instantiations from the Lucy Lloyd Archive and Contemporary Typefaces from Southern Africa

This paper argues that we may read the images from the Lucy Lloyd archive of ancient Khoe and San symbols, drawings and pictograms in a special way that offers an intellectual seriousness to these collaborative picture-word creations that attempted to hold certain faunal and floral knowledge and descriptions from the South African landscape on the transcriber’s page. By foregrounding moments of textual innovation as is evident in the Lloyd archive, I make a case for what that I term ‘typographic reification’. This ‘reification’ is the fulcrum of the ancient drive of the indigenous people of Southern Africa (the Khoe and the San) to offer an excess beyond the translation of their world into a Roman alphabet (the given form) by linguists that came with this aim in mind. Contemporary advances in New Media technology allow this very element of typographic reification (observed in textual and graphic elements recorded on pages of sketchbooks and notebooks from the Lloyd archive) to be offered anew to an international public through the digital typefaces of the South African designer Jan Erasmus who similarly draws his natural environment into the very fabric of his creations. The parallels visible between the innovative methods of transcription and picture-word creations of Lloyd and her Khoe and San collaborators on the one hand, and the digital creation of Erasmus on the other, serve to amplify a conceptual agility that must be celebrated in the South African social imagination as an intellectual bridge between different spaces and times that is a contribution to African philology and a critical history of the text.

A Practice Method for Studying Creative Communities

IntroductionIn cartoons, flashes of brilliance are easy to spot – the character strikes a contemplative pose, or is jolted into an energetic position, while a bulb lights up above the character’s head. In real life, there are no lightbulbs, and while contemplating or thinking hard might sometimes be conducive to creativity, there might not be a big idea or moment of innovation

Organising routines and spaces for employee-driven innovation in global work arrangements

Based on a longitudinal case study in a multinational corporation operating in the medical industry, this paper shows how a group of employees from different sites and from various organisational levels learnt and innovated new training practices as they enacted and made use of organisational routines to develop a global training system that supported the company's overall standardisation process. The paper identifies how, in particular, three interrelated routines appear to trigger moments of recursive learning and employee-driven innovation (EDI) among employees. These routines are: 1) an organisational form of global communities of practice; 2) a 'cookbook' representing a set of guidelines to ensure a common approach to the sharing of best practices; 3) a set of governance procedures to support continual improvements. They do so by allowing employees to: a) collectively engage in and work towards a common purpose; b) identify, document and share knowledge about the problems and solutions they encounter in regard to their work; c) continually improve work practices. The findings contribute to an understanding of how organisational structuring of EDI can be developed and managed, and highlight the importance of deliberately organising routines, spaces and moments to foster such dynamics.

Predicting Service Reliability - Using Survival Analysis of Customer Fuzzy Satisfaction

It had been known that the main objective of adding service was creating value to improve customer satisfaction. Therefore, if customer satisfaction was plotted in time series variable, service reliability function was reflected. The benefits obtained from understanding the service reliability function were knowing the trend of service life cycle and analyzing the time to react for service in order that the company could offer service innovation before the service became unfavorable. This research was aimed to analyze service reliability function by using the definition concept of product reliability function which was called survival analysis. To reduce bias data because of linguistic variable such as customer satisfaction, fuzzy logic was used in this research. The data was collected by doing a survey to 100 SAMSAT customers about their satisfaction. SAMSAT is a public unit giving service in tax. Then, fuzzied customer satisfaction was plotted in time series to describe the survival analysis of service. In other words, the plotting result was used to determine the right time for innovating service. So, the conclusion was drawn that survival analysis implemented in service field could help the managerial level in terms of innovation management. In addition, fuzzy logic used could bold the bias definition of customer satisfaction. Furthermore, this framework would be able to be used in mobile application development for future research in terms of supporting a company to define the right moment of service innovation based on a simple customer satisfaction survey. Keyword: Service reliability, survival analysis for service, fuzzy logic in service, fuzzy satisfaction, technology as support

Small networks, evolution of knowledge and species longevity: Theoretical integration and empirical test

How do small groups play pivotal roles of invention and innovation in (human) organizations and cultures? Economic theories of human capital, i.e., knowledge-skills—provide classic formulations. The economic theories of human capital as intrinsic to societal development and physical survival have direct connections to small group theory of learning through communication and socioemotional interaction. These theories have important parallels in biological theories of the evolution of human intelligence. They are supplemented by social exchange theory and the ecological dominance-social-competition model. These theoretical approaches are common to the overlapping disciplines of social anthropology, sociology and the social psychology of small group behavior.However, even these theories, while plausible and mutually reinforcing, do not fully account for the extraordinary influence of small groups in the invention and innovation process. A crucial moment of invention and innovation is the psychological stress involved in expression/presentation (even to oneself) of a new idea (on an important subject) that is contrary to accepted (i.e., conventional) wisdom. In this article the argument is made that the social support function of small groups, discussed extensively in the epidemiological literature, facilitates that presentation by: (1) reality testing, i.e., confirmation of the validity (truth value), significance and usefulness of abstract or empirical discovery/creation; (2) emotional support moderating the effects of anxiety or threat; and (3) material support of the discoverer/discovery through financing or provision of significant social contacts.Thus, we observe trends in human knowledge and consequent economic development: (1) continuous enlargement of the base of knowledge through specialization and differentiation of disciplines and employment, where disciplinary knowledge is embedded in the structure of employment. (2) Sustainable economic development results in expanded human longevity—minus the losses through employment and income inequality.The impact of economic growth on species survival, engendered by small-group-mediated innovation, can be observed in a statistical model over the beneficial impact of economic development on global cardiovascular mortality. The statistical model also demonstrates the harm to cardiovascular health brought about by employment losses and income inequality associated with world-wide automation.