Constantine Andriopoulos

• Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at City, University of London

Front‐end new product development (NPD) is fraught with tensions that fuel and inhibit innovation. According to paradox theory, tensions pose a double‐edged sword, sparking learning and creativity or anxiety and counterproductive responses. NPD teams' shared understandings—how they think about (cognition) and approach (motivation) tensions—turn the...

Place branding scholars and practitioners have increasingly highlighted the influence that corporate image can exert on the image of the country of origin (COI). Yet, there is remarkably little theoretical and empirical research on this influence. Filling this gap is important in relation to both theory and practice. The aim of the proposed study i...

Academy of Management Proceedings http://proceedings.aom.org/content/2016/1/15982.short

Although the impact of ICT-enabled information on firm performance has been well documented in the business value of IT literature, our understanding of how Global Positioning System (GPS) adoption can transform operational decision making and foster differential firm performance is limited. In response, we conduct an exploratory comparative case s...

Strategic agility evokes contradictions, such as stability-flexibility, commitment-change, and established routines-novel approaches. These competing demands pose challenges that require paradoxical leadership—practices seeking creative, both/and solutions that can enable fast-paced, adaptable decision making. Why is managing paradox critical to st...

Purpose – The authors seek to show the extent and nature of qualitative research in international marketing in IMR (International Marketing Review) and then aim to understand and explain developments in this area. They explore the global coverage of extant qualitative work in IMR and reflect on the thematic focus, theoretical purpose, research desi...

This study emphasizes the concept of variform universality and considers whether colonialism may be one of the cultural drivers of such divergence. We use a well-established methodology to explore the personal entrepreneurial networks of Cypriots with those of their Greek and English counterparts. We suggest that entrepreneurial networking exhibits...

Introduction Innovation and Organizational Ambidexterity Innovation Paradoxes and Their Management Top Management: Managing Profit and Breakthroughs Projects: Managing Experimentation and Constraints Individuals: Managing Discipline and Passion Sustaining Ambidexterity Summary

Purpose This paper aims to explore three central tensions in the debate on corporate branding. Is a normative or a social constructionist approach more appropriate in conceptualising and managing corporate brands? Should the focus be on the organizational or the individual level? Must organizations take a static (focusing on continuity) or a more d...

Purpose The aim of this paper is to examine the influence of corporate image on shaping the image of its country of origin (hereafter country image). Design/methodology/approach The authors develop a conceptual framework and a series of propositions, grounded on previous studies on country of origin (COO), image transfer, corporate and place brand...

The authors examine the link between creativity and entrepreneurial intention in young people and the roles that family and education may play in encouraging this link. The results from a survey of 180 undergraduate business school students show that the more creative young people consider themselves to be, the higher are their entrepreneurial inte...

Place branding scholars and practitioners increasingly highlight the influence that corporate image can exert on country image. Yet, there is remarkably little academic research on this image transfer. In this qualitative study, we identify factors that influence the transfer of associations from corporate images to country images through 13 in-dep...

The authors examine the link between creativity and entrepre-neurial intention in young people and the roles that family and education may play in encouraging this link. The results from a survey of 180 under-graduate business school students show that the more creative young people consider themselves to be, the higher are their entrepreneurial in...

Lunar Design has a talent for translating innovative thinking into successful business strategies. In their research, Constantine Andriopoulos and Manto Gotsi identify four principles that support this impressive track record: a collaborative approach to management; a no-fear work environment; an emphasis on moving beyond the comfort zone; and a pr...

Creative workers often experience identity tensions. On the one hand, ‘creatives’ desire to see themselves as distinctive in their artistry, passion, and self-expression, nurturing an identity that energizes their innovative efforts. Yet daily pressures to meet budgets, deadlines and market demands encourage a more business-like identity that suppo...

Companies frequently attempt to gain a competitive advantage in their market through innovation, yet this critical factor is often elusive. Obtaining innovation requires both exploration to tap new opportunities and exploitation to enhance existing capabilities. The ability to excel at these conflicting modes of innovation can be termed organisatio...

Achieving exploitation and exploration enables success, even survival, but raises challenging tensions. Ambidextrous organizations excel at exploiting existing products to enable incremental innovation and at exploring new opportunities to foster more radical innovation, yet related research is limited. Largely conceptual, anecdotal, or single case...

Nowadays, internal business processes are one of the crucial factors of firms’ competitive advantage achievement, which is becoming increasingly important, not only on local but also on global markets. Firms’ performance improvement depends to a large extent on its flexibility, adjustability and especially ability to manage internal business proces...

Organizational ambidexterity entails coping with contradictory logics of exploration and exploitation. While a mindset of experimentation fuels radical innovation, specialization helps leverage existing products. Yet most ambidexterity research investigates supportive structures and strategies, rather than underlying mindsets. Through an inductive...

Purpose This study seeks to empirically examine cultural alignment with new corporate brand values in the rebranding aftermath. Design/methodology/approach Focuses on a case study of a firm that recently underwent a corporate rebranding campaign. Analysis is based on data collected through 14 in‐depth interviews with senior managers, and questionn...

Purpose While the corporate rebranding momentum is accelerating, corporate decisions are not currently informed by strong theory and academic research in this area. To broaden the understanding, the purpose of this paper is to generate empirical insights into the key pitfalls in the corporate rebranding process. Design/methodology/approach An expl...

Identifying and selecting creative employees is of key importance in today's high-pace business environment. Yet, little is known about how assessors in organizational settings evaluate the creative potential of job candidates. In this paper we review the extant literature on individual and team creativity in order to identify criteria (cues) again...

With rapid changes in technology and intense competition in the business environment the importance of cultivating and sustaining foresight in multiple-product innovation firms has been propelled to unprecedented heights. Yet, research on the processes through which such firms mobilise foresight in their working environment remains scarce. This pap...

In an era of globalization, intense competition and unpredictability, organizational creativity is increasingly important and, hence, tapping into the power of imagination in the work setting is propelled to unprecedented heights. This article explores how imagination is encouraged among employees within a successful NPD consultancy (Lunar Design I...

Initiating and sustaining creativity in the workplace is a delicate and difficult process and often commercial pressures do not make it any easier. This article aims to identify the practical tensions, mixed messages and oppositions that characterise the management of organisational creativity. It explores how three successful creative organisation...

In today’s competitive business environment, global competition forces companies to perpetually seek ways of improving their products/services. Organisations increasingly aspire to become more creative and capitalise on the benefits of creativity, and perceive the development of conditions that encourage creativity within their working environment...

Two case studies of well-reputed creative organizations examine the processes involved in managing employees' identification with the desired corporate identity. Findings illustrate that the creative organizations under study use the `bonding', `inspirationalizing' and `breaking new grounds' processes to encourage employee identification with the k...

This paper identifies benchmarks in relation to brand management practices in the creative industry. Based on the findings of three case studies we propose an empirical framework explaining the interrelationships among five employee management practices, individual/team creativity and corporate brand building. We conclude that creative organisation...

Pressures have increased for both profit and non-profit organisations to become “innovative organisations”. This study has revealed the grounded theory of perpetual challenging as a process for enhancing organisational creativity. Perpetual challenging refers to the ways through which creative organisations enhance their employees’ internal drive t...