Invention Of Tradition Research Articles

A Conceptual Framework for Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design to Support Sustainable Business Model Innovation and New Product Development

In order to reach a sustainable future and meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), business model innovation (BMI) needs to explore theoretical and practical intersections of the traditional innovation management (IM) and new product development (NPD) processes with sustainability considerations. New environmental and health policy ambitions such as those presented in the European Green Deal and the EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability (CSS) challenge traditional IM theories on BMI and NPD processes. The Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design (SSbD) concept is a central element of the CSS and demands a novel approach that integrates innovation with safety, sustainability and circularity of materials, products and processes without compromising their functionality or their technical and/or commercial viability. Importantly, adopting such a concept can prevent regrettable substitutions, future liability and brand image issues for companies. To achieve this, companies must design products with minimal environmental impact, adopt circular economy principles, and ensure social responsibility throughout the value chain, whilst economic viable. By doing so, companies contribute to economic, environmental, and social sustainability. In this perspective, a conceptual framework is proposed on how to achieve sustainable BMI and NPD by integrating traditional IM tools with SSbD using life cycle thinking principles considering external and internal drivers.

Cultural identity and royal symbolism in Uganda: regalia in the investiture of the King of Buganda

As an invented tradition of Uganda, the investiture of the King of Buganda stands out as one of the defining practices impacting cultural identity and the expression of power in the country. The regalia emerges as an iconography of regal glory which serves to legitimize power. This paper addresses the following questions: first, how would the investiture of the King of Buganda be seen in the context of visual narratives of cultural identity in Uganda? Second, how did the regalia serve to legitimize the power of the monarch to elevate his socio-political status in the country? Third, how does the King of Buganda become recognizable through art and adornment? Using a reflective, multistranded approach, this essay studies the material culture of Buganda accession ceremonies by integrating interviews with coronation officiants and painted depictions by the lead author. We argue that the royal regalia of monarchs offers visual symbolism that is enduring and significant, deeply owing to an ‘invented’ tradition and enshrined customs in a people’s culture – in this case, of Buganda’s kings.

Aesthetics and Values in Animated Opera Characters: The Fusion and Innovation of Tradition and Modernity

In today's cultural exchange and heritage, animation, as a modern communication medium, is gradually becoming an important means of expressing traditional opera characters. This paper explores the fusion and innovation of tradition and modernity in the aesthetics and value expression of animated opera characters. By analyzing the aesthetic characteristics and value expressions of traditional opera characters, combined with the application of modern animation techniques, this study elucidates the unique advantages of animation in conveying the cultural connotations of opera and social values. Finally, the paper proposes strategies for combining traditional aesthetics with modern technology, and new pathways for innovative value expression in animated media, aiming to provide theoretical support and practical guidance for the modernization of traditional cultural dissemination.

The role of the innovation ecosystem as a tool for innovation development

The development of various industrial sectors is one ofthe priority tasks of the state, the solution of which is toimprove the quality and life expectancy of the population.According to the authors of the article, an innovationecosystem should be understood as an open dynamicsystem that provides collaborative forms of interaction between actors, taking into account the non-hierarchical relationships that have developed within the institutional ecosystem of enterprises, regions, and countries acting inthe direction of sustainable advanced innovativedevelopment based on modern technological concepts.Modern innovation ecosystems are created and functionto overcome individual limitations, maximise resourceuse, and distribute risks and costs to better achievecommon goals. This approach differs from the traditionalones in that it takes into account the current level ofeconomic development, taking into account the processesof digital transformation of all spheres of activity andprovides an integrated approach to the formation of aninnovation ecosystem. The article concludes that industry is currentlydeveloping as a traditional innovation system. The analysis of different views and main approaches tounderstanding innovation ecosystems allowed to identifythe advantages of ecosystems in comparison withtraditional innovation systems and to justify the need todevelop industry as an innovation ecosystem. A moredetailed study was carried out on the basis of market datafor various types of equipment. These conclusions wereconfirmed when analysing the prerequisites for theformation of an innovation ecosystem based on theresults of the analysis of the current state of theequipment market. A number of systemic problems canbe identified that are common to all stages of productionand circulation of various products: limited financialresources of manufacturers for development (researchand development, sales and promotion of products);scientific and technological lagging behind the level ofworld leaders; difficulty in commercialisingdevelopments. These problems have a complex impact on thedevelopment of the industry as a whole and its individual product segments. Eliminating these constraints will helpcreate favourable conditions for the machinery marketand unlock its potential.

Multinational Corporations and Social Innovation in Emerging Markets

The concept of social innovation has garnered increasing attention across various disciplines, driven by a growing recognition of the need to address complex societal challenges. However, despite the thorough examination of traditional innovation forms and their influence on global business practices, the scrutiny of social innovation within the realm of international business (IB) remains relatively nascent. This introduction delineates the scope of this focused issue and emphasizes the critical need to expand research on social innovation within IB, a field dedicated to enhancing social value and engagement among diverse stakeholders. This focused issue explores the catalysts and impacts of multinational corporations' (MNCs’) social innovation endeavours in emerging markets. Departing from the profit-centric focus of conventional innovation studies, social innovation emphasizes the redistribution of knowledge, the encouragement of discovery, and the facilitation of co-creation, thus posing a challenge to the traditional paradigms and logics of innovation theory. This introduction provides a concise review of current social innovation literature in IB, highlights the contributions made by the articles in this focused issue, and concludes by outlining directions for future research in the domain of social innovation in IB.

(Re)Constructing the Nation in Sunlight on a Broken Column: Hossain's Perspective on the Partition of the Subcontinent

Gellner (1983) defines a nation as a myth whereas nationalism is an ideology through which people (re)invent traditions and culture to construct a nation. Nationalism revives extinct languages and reimagines extinct customs. To strengthen their nation's discourse, South Asian female writers have contributed significantly to the invention of traditions and the reconstruction of their lost culture. By addressing her nation's history and culture in her work, Hosain has also bolstered her national discourse. It is commonly known that history is typically presented through the eyes of men. Even though women have contributed substantially to the national process, their opinions are not included in history books. Since men write history, history favors men by making them the main heroes. This study aims to provide a female viewpoint on the history of the partition of the subcontinent. Thus, the researcher has selected Attia Hossain's novel, Sunlight on a Broken Column, to view her perspective on the nation and the partition of India. The concept of a nation is complex to comprehend. Different theorists have different definitions of the nation. Renan (1883), Hobsbawm and Ranger (1983), and Anderson's (1991) theories related to the nation have been used to construct a theoretical framework for this research. This study investigates factors contributing to the construction of a nation and nation-state by referencing the partition of the sub-continent and the formation of two nation-states, Pakistan and India.

On Gods, Heroes and Men. A Comparison of Tolstoy and Vico's Philosophies of History

While proceeding toward the end of War and Peace a reader can find itself startling and struggling to understand what kind of work is actually dealing with. The fictional narration is not yet concluded when L. Tolstoy (1828–1910) starts to lose himself in philosophical discussions regarding the nature of history as a science. Suddenly words such as god, heroes and men start to fill the pages recalling in the mind the language of a philosopher with at his back a history of long oblivion, the Italian G. Vico (1668–1744). The common terminology is only the triggering point for approaching a possible comparison between two authors that are so distant for time, context, interests, life and styles. A deep reading of their works however reveals some points of contact especially in a critique of their contemporary historicism, in their common interests on history as an objective science, on the analyses of events recollection and invention of tradition, in their overlapping instances of heterogeneity of ends and their reference to divine providence. A specific and different investigation might be necessary in order to understand whether those concepts somehow traveled along about one century and half from one to the other or whether they are just floating ideas of historical discourse. Nevertheless, starting from their commonalities the paper offers a clue on their inevitable divergences and a possible development of some of their central concepts. Being Tolstoy a writer of the ungraspable and indeterminate, concepts related to complex thinking will emerge during the reading.

КӨРКЕМ ШЫҒАРМАЛАРДАҒЫ ПСИХОЛОГИЗМНІҢ КӨРІНІСІ

The article discusses in detail the concept of "psychologism", which has not yet been fully studied in Kazakh literature. Psychologism is closely related to literature, because since the main object of a work of art is a person, it is obvious that human activity and psychology are also reflected in the work. Consequently, psychologism is the connecting link between literature and psychology. The article reveals the concept of psychologizm, its types, characteristic artistic and stylistic features, scienttifically systematized and analyzed on the basis of the works of scientists contributing to Razakh literary criticism. Based on the research works of Bakytzhan Maitanov "Kazakh novels and psychological analysis", "The spiritual world of Kaharman", Gulziya Prali "Problems of psychologism in fiction", aspects of psychologism in Kazakh prose are differentiated. Excerpts from the works of Mukhtar Auezov, Zhusupbek Aimautov, Magzhan Zhumabayev, Sherkhan Murtaza, Tolen Abdikov, Askar Altai are given, the ways of manifestation and transmission of psychology in a work of art are systematized. At the same time, using examples from specific works, the means of representing psychologism in a literary work are demonstrated, namely, the function of internal monologue and dialogue in revealing the charachter and mental state of the character. The proctssts of formation and development of literary psychologism are highlighted, its festhetic expression in a work of art is determined. The main features characteristic of psyhologichal prost are considered, and the issue of psyhological style in depictions of the hero's personality is also explored. The unique place of the dream motif, which takes its origins from folklore samples, in literary prose and the innovation of tradition is highlited. The issues of the flow of consciousness, psychological analysis, and split personality in a work of art are considered.

Navigating Ritual Resilience: The Interplay of Change and Continuity in the Shaolin Monastery During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The global upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic introduced considerable perturbations to the religious life and ritual observances within most religious communities around the world. This article delves into the resilience and adaptability of ritual practices within the Shaolin Monastery of China during the five-month COVID-19 quarantine spanning from 23 January to 22 June, 2020. Employing ethnographic methods and grounded in anthropological theory, the study examines the interplay between ritual as a static social fact and as a dynamic, adaptable process, within the context of the Shaolin monastic life. It underlines the intricate interplay between static and dynamic elements in ritual practice, casting light on the Shaolin community’s response to the pandemic. The study discerns dichotomies responsible for the critical forces underlying complex dynamics intrinsic to the Shaolin community’s religious life, namely: religious–secular, isolation–social engagement, discipline–freedom, tradition–innovation, and individual–collective. Tracking the evolutions and consistencies within these dual relationships enabled casting light on the transformative processes that were set in motion and identifying the elements of the religious life that have undergone change and those that have remained constant. This exploration offers a unique glimpse into the mechanisms through which resilience was enacted with the strategies that enabled the community to maintain, adjust and innovate its ritual practices amidst the tribulations presented by the crisis.

Text and Tradition: The Dynasty of Villarvattom among Syrian Christians in Kerala, India

The present paper introduces, inventories and interrogates prevailing narratives about the complex trajectories through which a putative Syrian Christian dynasty named Villarvattom has taken root in communal genealogies and the popular imagination of Kerala. The paper, by examining historical evidence, argues that the existing historical documents compel us to consider it as a retrospectively invented and imagined tradition necessitated and facilitated by the unique socio-political structures of Kerala viz. the ideational complexes wrought by caste and allied practices, the dislocation caused by successive colonial regimes and the overall crisis experienced by the indigenous Christian community. The paper surveys the present state of literature, discusses explanatory models, points to the possibility of cultural introjection and seeks ways in which the study can be taken forward more comprehensively and productively so that we gain perceptive insights into both the ecclesiastical and secular histories of Kerala. The paper argues that it is an invented tradition, a defence mechanism collectively, and perhaps unconsciously, evolved by the beleaguered Syrian Christians under the Portuguese, Dutch and British colonial rule, which had inflicted debilitating blows to the power and glory enjoyed by this community.

Is it possible for semiconductor companies to reduce carbon emissions through digital transformation? Evidence from China

The semiconductor industry serves as both a driver of digital transformation (DT) and a bearer of energy preservation and lower emissions. This study focuses on the Chinese-listed semiconductor businesses from 2013 to 2021, delving into the mechanism of digital transformation on reducing carbon emissions. It validates the moderating function of supply chain configuration and reveals heterogeneity at both the regional and corporate levels. The following important results are reached by this work: Among semiconductor enterprises, firstly, digital transformation considerably reduces enterprises' carbon emission intensity, a conclusion that stands robust after robustness checks. Secondly, digital transformation achieves carbon mitigation by improving both green and traditional innovation efficiency. Thirdly, the increased centralization of supply chain configuration propels enterprises to achieve carbon reductions through digital transformation. Lastly, heterogeneity research finds that digital transformation in the eastern area inhibits the increase in carbon intensity, while the central-western and northeastern regions do not exhibit a similar trend. At the enterprise level, the carbon mitigation effect of digital transformation is especially noticeable in semiconductor enterprises that are highly labor-intensive, large in size, have high environmental uncertainty, and are state-owned. These findings provide empirical evidence for semiconductor enterprises to implement differentiated digital transformation practices and coordinate the creation of green transformation policies.

Exploration of Innovation Ability Cultivation Pattern for Environmental Students based on Open Experiments

The cultivation of innovation ability is especially important for students majoring in environmental science and engineering. In order to solve the problems existing in the process of traditional innovation ability cultivation, a novel pattern of innovation ability cultivation for environmental science and engineering majors based on open experiments is proposed. Through the exploration of platform construction, project declaration, process supervision and effect evaluation, an innovation-oriented open experiment system is constructed and put into practice, which provides students with richer practice opportunities and innovation space, further improves students' practical ability and innovation ability, and is a scientific and effective mode of cultivation of innovation ability.

On the nature of tradition: The Japanese notion of furusato and a historical quest for place

ABSTRACT The notion of ‘tradition' still haunts anthropological discourse as something to be addressed with great scepticism and suspicion. Anthropologists are usually among the first to highlight the supposed impetus for reification that inhabits the idea of tradition, as well as its nationalistic, ideological, or political functions. Taking as a point of departure the Japanese notion of furusato (‘hometown', ‘native place') and its interpretation as an ‘invented tradition’, this paper attempts to look beyond the surface of these kind of functionalist evaluations and invites anthropologists to consider instead the mode of being and coming to be of tradition in human worlds; in other words, not the truth about tradition but the truth of tradition. Our understanding of tradition will be enhanced – this paper proposes – if we see it not as the 'thing' transmitted, but as the horizon of intelligibility disclosed and set in motion by that which is transmitted.

Imagining a Public: Anniversary Dinners and the Democratic Political Imaginary in Colonial New South Wales, 1788–1842

During the first half of the nineteenth century, the 26th of January was celebrated as the founding anniversary of the colony of New South Wales, typically with a ‘public’ dinner. A political faction of locally born ‘natives’ and former convict ‘emancipists’ used this invented tradition to rally around arguments for democratic rights. Moving beyond their role in political organising, I read these anniversary dinners, and their reporting in the press, as an expression of a democratic political imaginary. The dinners became a stage on which political ideas were debated and endorsed by a representative public in a performative ritual that scripted a vision of a democratic colony, before it was granted democratic institutions.

Сoncept of M. BOICHUK and the Features of Ukrainian MODERNISM

The article is dedicated to the place and significance of the ideological and artistic concept of M. Boichuk in the formation of Ukrainian modernism, which, despite connection with the global European trends, has clear originality, conditioned with historical, social and cultural processes in Ukraine. The heritage of M. Boichuk and the art school created by him has reflected the demonstrative tendency towards the national self-determination and national culture creation. This trend has distinguished Ukrainian modernism in the context of European directivities. Unlike the European modernism, the main ideas of which are related to the affirmation of the self-worth of individuality, subjectivity and open self-expression and polemics against artistic traditions, modernism in Ukraine affirms the national originality and diversity of its culture. Founded in the conditions of statelessness and indeterminacy of the national heritage, the concept of M. Boichuk has determined the essential principles of the national tradition, where folk art and the Ukrainian Middle Ages with its unique icon painting become the main phenomena. The invention of traditions, their formalization and ideological substantiation, those have become the basis of Boichukism, describe the Ukrainian cultural space, are considered to be an impulse for the further development. M. Boichuk’s school has several stages of its history. The first period includes 1908–1910–1917 (from the Revival of Byzantine Art group created in Paris to the leadership of M. Boichuk at the studio in the newly founded Ukrainian Academy of Arts in Kyiv). The second one – 1918 – mid‑1930s, formed in the post-revolutionary Soviet decades, those have subdued it to their ideological program. Constantly preserving its defined formal and figurative principles, M. Boichuk’s concept has also reflected the ideas of the National Ukrainian Renaissance and the Soviet Korenization and Ukrainization of the 1920s. M. Boichuk’s school and the artistic movement founded by it have been abolished with the establishment of totalitarian power in the mid‑1930s. Their significance goes beyond art, relates directly to Ukrainian culture creation.

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Inventing Traditions in Minority Nationalisms: Political Sovereignty and Historical Trauma in the Iroquois Nationalist Imagination

The author analyzes the characteristics of the invention of traditions in modern Iroquois nationalism, a minority nationalist movement in the United States. The study examines the invention of traditions within the methodological frameworks of modern interdisciplinary historiography, particularly focusing on interventionist and imaginative turns, which are integral to analyzing minority nationalism. The author suggests that: 1) most traditions invented in modern Iroquois nationalism are political; 2) the concepts of “statehood” and “sovereignty” are central to the functioning of these political traditions; 3) the invention of traditions underscores the historical trauma of colonization and the institutionalization of the Iroquois’ unequal status as a minority group; 4) reproducing these invented traditions in political discourse is an effort to revitalize Iroquois identity; 5) the invented traditions of Iroquois nationalism serve a compensatory purpose, aiming to overcome the collective historical trauma of losing their political state tradition. Overall, the author suggests that the development of Iroquois nationalism hinges on the invention of traditions, which Native American ethnic and political activists actively use to consolidate Iroquois identity in the United States.

„Atheismology“ or the Absurd as Normality

According to the author's point of view, atheist politics, expressed not only as secular-ization and profanation of religious objects and practices, but also as organized pog-roms on them, is a vivid manifestation of the totalitarian regime, not – an accidental perversion of an otherwise "normal" system. The only thing that seems "normal" (be-cause it is characteristic of the totalitarian state in principle) in this policy is the sys-tematic absurdity with invention of traditions, ritual practices and whole sciences such as atheismology and atheology.

Does environmental management system certification affect green innovation performance?-Based on a moderated mediating effects model.

What is the impact of environmental management system certification on green innovation performance, and is it a futile endeavor or a profitable one? Grounded in the principles of ecological civilization construction and green development, this study embarks on a comprehensive examination. Initially, it investigates the varying impacts of environmental management system certification on both traditional innovation performance and green innovation performance. Subsequently, it dissects the underlying mechanisms and moderating factors influencing the latter, including an exploration of intermediary effects. The empirical findings of this study are as follows: (i) Environmental management system certification emerges as a catalyst for innovation performance, with the primary impact observed in the realm of green innovation performance. (ii) Social responsibility disclosure is identified as a mediating factor in the relationship between environmental management system certification and green innovation performance. (iii) Larger enterprises, those equipped with robust equity incentives, and those operating in less competitive markets are more prone to benefit from the impact of environmental management system certification on social responsibility disclosure. This, in turn, amplifies the promotion of green innovation performance. However, the moderating effect of property rights on the mediating path remains statistically insignificant. (iv) Environmental management system certification exerts a more pronounced influence on green innovation performance in regions characterized by lower economic development. Moreover, it particularly stimulates exploratory green innovation performance, surpassing its impact on exploitative green innovation performance.

Old names for new things

ABSTRACT This article examines two objects of Malay royal regalia: the Perak betel-box known as the puan naga taru and the Riau emblem known as the cogan. Drawing on Hobsbawm and Ranger’s articulation of ‘invented tradition’, and on Amoroso’s of ‘traditionalism’ with reference to Malay kingship, detailed comparison of the textual and material records is adduced to argue that the physical objects themselves are likely to be much younger than the traditions underlying them. Colonial officials who documented regalia objects and collected information about them were also implicated in the traditionalising process. Nineteenth-century beliefs and practices about the potency of royal regalia are contrasted with those current in the present day, where the regalia objects are more desacralised than ever before.