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The IoT can lead to disruptive healthcare innovation. Research articles on IoT in healthcare and COVID-19 pandemics are thus researched in order to discover the potential of this technology. This literature-based research may help professionals to explore solutions to associated issues and battle the COVID-19 epidemic. Using a process diagram, IoT's significant accomplishments were briefly evaluated. Then seven critical IoT technologies that look useful in healthcare during the COVID-19 Pandemic are identified and illustrated. Finally, in the COVID-19 Pandemic, potential fundamental IoT applications were identified for the medical industry with a short explanation. The present predicament has opened up a fresh avenue to creativity in our everyday lives. The Internet of Things is an up-and-coming technology that enhances and gives better solutions in the medical area, such as appropriate medical record-keeping, sample, device integration, and cause of sickness. IoT's sensor-based technology gives a remarkable ability to lower the danger of intervention in challenging circumstances and is helpful for the pandemic type COVID-19. In the sphere of medicine, IoT's emphasis is on helping to treat diverse COVID-19 situations accurately. It facilitates the work of the surgeon by reducing risks and enhancing overall performance. Using this technology, physicians may readily identify changes in the COVID-19′s vital parameters. These information-based services provide new prospects for healthcare as they advance towards the ideal technique for an information system to adapt world-class outcomes by improving hospital treatment systems. Medical students may now be better taught and led in the future for the identification of sickness. Proper use of IoT may assist handle several medical difficulties such as speed, affordability, and complexity appropriately. It may simply be adapted to track patients' calorific intake and therapy with COVID-19 asthma, diabetes, and arthritis. In COVID-19 pandemic days, this digitally managed health management system may enhance the overall healthcare performance.

The objective of this research is to demonstrate to what extent the application of the business management program will increase sustainable entrepreneurship among teachers in Educational Units of Guayaquil-Ecuador 2021. The main problem revolves around the lack of knowledge about the relationship between business management and sustainable entrepreneurship since it has not been studied longitudinally. The study observed how sustained entrepreneurship affects the process and the durability of a student's confidence or identification with the teacher; therefore, the findings based on the surveyed population could guide on the most effective resources and educational strategies to develop and maintain motivation and sustainability in entrepreneurship. The most outstanding results revealed that in the pretest of the experimental group 21.1% is in the medium level and 78.9% in the high level; for the control group 29.8% is in the medium level and 70.2% in the high level; after the application of the program the level of this experimental group increased to 100%. It is concluded that the effectiveness of the program in the social aspect is an important ingredient in the current business education environment and contributes significantly to the general welfare of society. La presente investigación tiene como objetivo demostrar en qué medida la aplicación del programa de gestión empresarial permitirá incrementar el emprendimiento sostenible en los docentes en Unidades Educativas de Guayaquil-Ecuador 2021. La problemática principal gira entorno al desconocimiento sobre la relación entre la gestión empresarial y el emprendimiento sostenido dado que no se lo ha estudiado longitudinalmente. El estudio observó cómo el emprendimiento sostenido incide en el proceso y la perdurabilidad de la confianza o la identificación de un estudiante con el docente, por tal razón, los hallazgos basados en la población encuestada podrían guiar sobre los recursos y estrategias educativas más efectivas para desarrollar y mantener la motivación y sostenibilidad en el emprendimiento. Los resultados más destacados revelaron que en el pretest del grupo experimental un 21.1% está en el nivel medio y un 78.9% en el nivel alto; para el grupo control el 29.8% se encuentra en el nivel medio y un 70.2% en el nivel alto; luego de la aplicación del programa el nivel de este grupo experimental aumentó al 100%. Se concluye que la eficacia del programa en el aspecto social es un ingrediente importante en el actual entorno de educación empresarial y contribuye significativamente al bienestar general de la sociedad.

Kūrybiškumas organizacijų veikloje visada buvo svarbus, tačiau XXI amžiuje vadybos krypties mokslininkai jam teikė ypač daug dėmesio. Straipsnyje aptariama kūrybiškumo esmė ir nauda organizacijoms. Pasitelkus struktūruotą ekspertų interviu metodą atliktas empirinis tyrimas Klaipėdos miesto organizacijose, siekiant nustatyti, kaip vadovai taiko kūrybiškumą įvairių sričių organizacijų veikloje. Nustatyta, kad vadovai pripažįsta kūrybiškumo svarbą nepaisant organizacijos veiklos pobūdžio, tačiau pasigesta didesnio susidomėjimo ir platesnio praktinio pritaikymo. Creativity in organizations has always been important, but in the twenty-first century, it is becoming object of interest among scientists in the field of management. The article discusses the essence of creativity and its benefits to organizations. Although researchers of various fields, including management, emphasize the benefits of creativity in everyday activities, but the skeptical view, that creativity can be applied only in art and not in everyday activities, still persist. This paper analyzes the scientific problem that is the lack of application of creativity in organizations. The object of research is application of creativity. The purpose of article is to research the applicability of creativity in organization through the analysis of the concept of creativity and its benefits to organizations. Objectives are to identify the benefits of creativity to the organization and to reveal the practice of application of creativity in Klaipeda organizations. In the analysis of the scientific literature, these techniques have been applied: systematic and logical analysis, comparative analysis, graphical representation. A qualitative research method of semi-structured interview has been used for empirical research. In order to determine the application of creativity in real life, the qualitative exploratory study has been performed. Semi-structured interview with experts has been selected. Experts – managers of various small and medium organizations – have been invited to participate in this research. The study has been conducted in April 2014 in Klaipeda. The aim was to involve managersexperts from different sectors (services, manufacturing, marketing or educational areas) in order to be able to discern certain trends or directions depending on the organization or the organization’ size or even a different leadership experience. Management experience of experts is very diverse, from 1 year to 36 years. The study found out that although experts have identified unambiguously that creativity is essential in our daily work, it appears that its application possibilities are not exhausted in practice and most have not showed interest or practical application of a variety of creative methods. Experts do not apply creative approaches in their work, they feel instinctively how to behave or to show creativity, but in reality, it is a serious theoretical gap. The results suggest that the development of creativity is yet neglected because neither managers nor employees are encouraged for creative solutions.

The article addresses what seems to be the critical aspects related to the most important competence of a human being in the 21st century – the competence to manage oneself. Nowadays, when life and civilization and technological development have accelerated unbelievably, people find it increasingly challenging to fulfill the social roles entrusted to them. That applies to everyone, but especially to those who have to manage (lead) other people or even entire teams, often forgetting about themselves, their needs, life priorities, and personal development. One should be able to wisely and rationally plan professional development in his/her personal life so as not to lose himself/herself entirely in the surrounding reality, being absorbed only in professional matters and others’ problems. This article indicates the most critical aspects that should be taken into account when planning personal and socio-professional development since only in this way can one feel the fulfillment of both in personal (family) and social and professional life.

This work considers the main approaches to improving the process of teaching students of management specialties of higher education in the context of the introduction of digital technologies. The results of the study of students’ priorities regarding the form and presentation of the studied material are shown, their analysis and interpretation are described. The conclusions of the author’s team on the trends and prospects for digitalization of the higher management education system in the Russian Federation were made.

On the jubilee days of our university, it is appropriate and fair to remember them too especially in our Soviet era, and when we and they - professors and technical staff, former servants - are equal members of the same trade union. Each of the universities can note a number of such "ministers" who are eligible for the title of "researchers". It is clear that these are scientific workers of a technical order, trainees, but still scientific workers with the identification of consciousness, a kind of creativity and technical ingenuity. It is necessary to recognize their significant role in the studies of students, in the training of scientific "personnel" of the past and present; it must be admitted that their role in the implementation of "active teaching methods" in the past was very significant. I would like to recall three such figures of ministers "scientific workers" of Kazan University during these jubilee days of Kazan University.

The need to form a team may arise in different situations of organization development. Rapid changes in both politics and business pose a number of challenges related to team building. Most often there is a request for the formation of operational teams to work in a limited time; uniting top managers in order to more effectively exchange information, increase creativity and join forces to achieve the goals of the enterprise as a whole; uniting employees within the unit (department) in order to increase the efficiency of management of subordinates and increase the efficiency of the unit; uniting middle managers in order to accelerate the flow of information, improve the psychological climate. One of the most effective methods of personnel management, which is used not only by commercial companies, but also by public organizations, is team building. After all, the success of the company depends not only on the professionalism of employees and their competent management, but also on a close-knit friendly team. The main purpose of team building (team building) – emotional cohesion of the team, increasing the return on teamwork. The essence of «Team Building»: creating the necessary conditions for employees to develop skills to work effectively in a team and in person, the ability to work in a team and identify leaders, unite the team and create an atmosphere of informal communication. Team building trainings, business trainings, active recreation of employees – an effective tool for forming a professional team. Experts have noticed that building a system of an effective team, united and committed to a common goal, significantly contributes to the modeling of situations when employees are involved in a new, unusual for them process. The subject of research is team building (team building) as an effective tool for forming a professional team. The purpose of writing the article is to study the theoretical aspects of the use of team building, identify the advantages, disadvantages and feasibility of its use in practical management. The results of the work can find their practical application in the management of modern domestic enterprises and organizations. Thus, team building is a way for individual professionals to create a team that is focused on achieving common goals, an important investment in the future of any company. Such activities help employees to get to know each other better and establish communication, form a corporate culture, and increase work efficiency.

Scholars and practitioners acknowledge the role of design, and specifically design thinking, as a driver of innovation and change. Design thinking is gaining attention in the business community beyond the traditional product innovation realm and is increasingly promoted as an engine for the creation of novel user experiences, new businesses, strategic transformation, organizational and cultural change. Is it reasonable to assume that the same set of practices fits such a broad range of applications equally well? This study addresses how design thinking applications are differently framed when addressing diverse innovation purposes. Specifically, we compare two purposes: innovation of solutions, encompassing traditional product and service development projects, and innovation of direction, encompassing strategic and organizational renewal projects. Based on data collected from 146 design thinking projects conducted by European consulting firms we investigate the relationships between the design thinking practices adopted and the value generated by the projects. We then analyze how these relationships vary depending on the purpose of the innovation project, namely whether focused on innovating solutions or direction. The results show that different purposes indeed call for different practices. In projects aimed at innovating solutions, market value is positively related to capturing current user needs and envisioning future society. Conversely, in projects aimed at innovating direction, market value is positively related to challenging current assumptions.

The aim of the study is to analyse the effectiveness of personnel social development management tools. The essence of social policy, social guarantees, social programs has been considered in the article. The importance of managing social development of personnel for large companies has been substantiated, the functions and tasks of social management have been highlighted. The implementation of the functions considered will help to attract and retain more qualified and talented employees, improve the effectiveness of professional interaction in the team and, accordingly, increase the efficiency of the staff and the enterprise as a whole.The influence of the level of planning social programs on increasing the level of employee loyalty to the organization, the growth of labor productivity, social activity, creativity, rationalization of activities have been noted. The role of management of the personnel social development, the social working conditions and social infrastructure has been argued. The most important tools for managing social development of enterprise personnel have been highlighted.

Organizations typically employ a division of labor between specialist creator roles and generalist business roles in a bid to orchestrate innovation. We seek to determine the extent to which individuals dividing the work across roles can also benefit from dividing their network. We argue that collaborating individuals benefit from connecting to the same groups but different individuals within those groups—an approach we label dual networking—rather than from a pure divide-and-conquer approach. To test this argument, we study a dual career-ladder setting in a large multinational in which R&D managers and technologists partner up in their quest for innovation. We find that collaborators who engage in dual networking attain an innovation performance advantage over those who connect to distinct groups. This advantage stems from the opportunity to engage in the dual interpretation of input the partners receive, as well as from dual influencing that helps them to gain momentum for their proposed innovations, and it leads to more effective elaboration and championing of their ideas. In demonstrating these effects, we advance understanding of how collaborators organize their networking activities to best achieve innovative outcomes.

The concept of "knowledge management" is increasingly becoming one of the key concepts for achieving and maintaining a competitive advantage in the new economy and management. This paper presents the basic elements and the relationship between knowledge management and competitiveness. After introductory considerations, knowledge as a strategic resource is analyzed, as well as the awareness of the importance of knowledge for achieving and maintaining competitiveness. The continuation of the paper is dedicated to research into the level of education and knowledge of employees, identification of the needs for additional knowledge and missing knowledge in business organizations of the city of Niš, followed by conclusions arising from the research. The fact is that shifting the focus towards creativity and innovation requires an even greater amount of knowledge. However, it is not enough for employees of business organizations to just possess the necessary knowledge, but also to be able to use it and share it effectively. Only the knowledge used in such way can become a source of sustainable growth and development of the business organization in question.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to integrate a detailed theory of perception and action with a theory of entrepreneurship. It considers how new knowledge is developed by entrepreneurs and how the level of creativity is regulated by a competitive system. It also shows how new knowledge may create value for the innovator as well as for other entrepreneurs in the system.Design/methodology/approachThe theory builds on existing literature on creativity and entrepreneurship. It considers how transformation of mental technologies occurs at the individual and system levels, and how this transformation influences value creation.FindingsUnder a competitive system, the level of creativity is regulated by the need for new ways of doing things. Periods of crisis wherein old means of coordination begin to fail often precipitate an increase in creativity, whereas a lack of crisis often allows the system to settle to a stable equilibrium with lower levels of creativity.Research limitations/implicationsThe combination of methodology and methods facilitates a description of discrete building blocks that guide perception and enable creativity. This framing enables consideration of how a changing set of knowledge interacts with a system of prices.Practical implicationsPolicy makers must take care not to encumber markets with costs that unnecessarily constrain creativity, as experimentation makes the economic system robust to shocks.Social implicationsThis work provides a framing of cognition that allows for a linking of agent understanding that permits explicit description of coordination between agents. It relates perception and ends of the individual to constraints enforced by the social system.Originality/valueAs far as the author is concerned, no other work ties together a robust framing of cognition with computational simulation of market processes. This research deepens understanding in multiple fields, most prominently for agent-based modeling and entrepreneurship.

Purpose Several researchers struggle with designing, writing-up and reviewing case study research, but constructing a template for describing and justifying methodological choices is – in contrast with quantitative research – undesirable due to the creative nature of qualitative research. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the multitude of paths to rigorous case study research and promote rigorous case study research in the service community. Design/methodology/approach Based upon a review of seminal articles and textbooks, different paths to rigorous case study research are identified. Subsequently, these paths are compared with existing practices in case studies in service research published between March 2017 and April 2019. Findings Seminal articles and textbooks detail different paths to achieve rigor with regard to research purpose, design, data, analyses and write-up. Overall, the most popular paths in the service community are those proposed by Eisenhardt and Yin. Meanwhile, service researchers increasingly challenge the dichotomy between the inductive and deductive logic by choosing an abductive logic. Transparency and reflexivity are the main points of attention among service researchers doing case study research. Originality/value By providing insight into the multitude of paths to rigorous case study research along with their popularity in the service community, this paper helps service researchers to balance rigor and creativity when engaging in case study research. Additionally, this paper offers a framework for reviewing case study research in terms of rigor and creativity.

Aim. Implementation of theoretical and methodological analysis of manage­ment as a complex socio-cultural phenomenon; disclosure of the methodolo­gical and praxeological potential of the theory of management in the training of specialists in the field of management activities.Methods. During the research, there were used such methods as analysis, synthesis, systemic, comparative, structural-functional, and dialectical met­hods. A synergistic methodological approach was used to managing as a complex, multilevel, open system. The theoretical basis of the research is the views of such researchers as K. Matsusita, P. Drucker, I. Adizes, L. Yakokka. Results. The authors prove that the contemporary theory of management appears in at least three dimensions: the methodology, the art of manage­ment activity and the discipline in the system of training specialists in the field of public management and administration. It is substantiated that the methodological function of the theory of management is realized through the formation of the cultural-semantic, the intellectual basis for the making of innovative, conceptual thinking of the subject of management activity. As an art, the philosophy of the administration forms the subject's ability to crea­tively determine priorities, calculate all possible variants of events in conflict situations and make constructive decisions. As a subject matter, the theory of management was developed and implemented in the educational process by the authors within the program of “The Philosophy of Management”. Scientific novelty. For the first time in the scientific discourse, the the­ory of management was considered in three dimensions: methodology, art of administration, as well as an important academic discipline in the struc­ture of modern education. It was demonstrated that the necessary condition for effective administration of systems of any level of complexity is the inte­raction of the three main factors. First factor, this is the world outlook factor that determines the role of values, traditions, customs, culture, mentality in the implementation of effective management activities. Secondly, this is a scientific-methodological factor that consists of a variety of theories and con­cepts where the mechanisms, methods and regularities of management are revealed. Thirdly, this is a praxeological factor, which is essentially represen­ted by various recommendations, guidelines and enactments of contemporarymanagement. The unity of these factors generates the effect of synergy, which leads administration to the level of art creative and productive combination of organization goals, knowledge, skills and abilities of employees, the expec­tations of customers in certain socio-cultural conditions of life. The authors proposed the idea of a new paradigm in the preparation of future managers: reorienting the training of the individual manager to the administrator as a team member, which, due to communication, relevant qualifications, profes­sional skills and creativity, will work effectively and execute team decisions. Practical significance. The obtained results are able to serve as a ben­chmark for improving the training system of professional managers, shif­ting attention from the analysis of the technical components of management (structure, strategy) to the consideration of its intellectual, spiritual poten­tial, where a person becomes the main capital and an understanding of its capabilities and scopes is an important condition for success., Мета. Здійснення теоретико-методологічного аналізу управління, як складного соціокультурного явища; розкриття методологічного і праксе- ологічного потенціалу теорії управління у підготовці фахівців у сфері управлінської діяльності.Методика. Під час дослідження використовувалися такі методи, як аналіз, синтез, системний, компаративний, структурно-функціональний, діалектичний. Застосовувався синергетичний методологічний підхід до управління як складної, багаторівневої, відкритої системи. Теоретичною основою дослідження є погляди таких дослідників, як: К. Мацусіта, П. Друкер, І. Адізес, Л. Якокка.Результати. Автори доводять, що сучасна теорія управління постає що­найменше в трьох вимірах: методологія, мистецтво управлінської діяль­ності та навчальна дисципліна в системі підготовки фахівців у сфері пу­блічного управління й адміністрування. Обґрунтовано, що методологічна функція теорії управління реалізується через формування культурно- смислового; інтелектуального підґрунтя для становлення новаторсько­го, концептуального мислення суб’єкта управлінської діяльності. Як ми­стецтво філософія управління формує у суб’єкта здатність креативно визначати пріоритети, прораховувати всі можливі варіанти подій у кон­фліктних ситуаціях і приймати конструктивні рішення. Як навчальна дисципліна теорія управління розроблена і впроваджена авторами в осві­тній процес в межах програми «Філософія управління».Наукова новизна. Уперше в науковому дискурсі теорію управління розглянуто у трьох вимірах: методологія, мистецтво управлінської ді­яльності, а також як важлива навчальна дисципліна в структурі сучасноїосвіти. Продемонстровано, що необхідною умовою ефективного управлі­ння системами будь-якого рівня складності є взаємодія трьох основних чинників. По-перше, це світоглядний чинник, який визначає роль цінно­стей, традицій, звичаїв, культури, ментальності в здійсненні ефективної управлінської діяльності. По-друге, це науково-методологічний чинник, що складається з різноманітних теорій і концепцій, в яких розкриваються механізми, методи і закономірності управління. По-третє, це праксеологі- чний чинник, що по суті представлений різними рекомендаціями, вчення­ми і положеннями сучасного менеджменту. Єдність означених чинників породжує ефект синергії, що виводить управління на рівень мистецтва креативного і продуктивного поєднання цілей організації, знань, вмінь та навичок працівників, очікувань клієнтів у тих чи інших соціокуль- турних умовах буття. Авторами запропоновано ідею нової парадигми у підготовці майбутніх управлінців: переорієнтація навчання з менеджера- індивідуала на управлінця як члена команди, котрий завдяки комуні­кації, відповідній кваліфікації, професійній майстерності і креативності ефективно працюватиме й виконуватиме командні рішення.Практична значимість. Отримані результати здатні постати орієнти­ром для вдосконалення системи підготовки фахівців-управлінців, змі­щуючи увагу з аналізу технічних компонентів управління (структура, стратегія) до розгляду його інтелектуальних, духовних потенціалів, де людина стає головним капіталом, а розуміння її можливостей і меж - важливою умовою успіху.

The new economy and the knowledge-based society brought significant changes in all the areas of our daily lives. Also, the COVID-19 pandemic and the COVID-19 crisis implicated tremendous transformations in all the domains, on the one hand, threatening the balance of our society and, on the other hand, challenging the dynamic of the new economy development and the rhythm of the societal modernization. In these delicate times, the all-important relationship between ethics, leadership, teamwork, effective communication, productivity, and performance is brought to the attention, in particular, due to its benefits for our society, taking into consideration the pivotal advancement that a well governed relationship of this type could provide to the knowledge-based economy. The present research describes the implication of ethics in leadership, teamwork, effective communication, and productivity, which includes the application of ethical values as university graduates assume the role of each of the mentioned dimensions of study in the organizations. The absence of research that relates ethics to these four elements simultaneously was noticed. This information is essential to know how these dimensions influence the organizational level. The sample that included 410 university graduates was applied in Baja California, Mexico, and the industrial nucleus of great relevance, bordering California in the United States of America. The data was obtained using a questionnaire. A reliability and validity analysis of the measurement instrument was carried out in terms of the ethical values associated with the dimensions mentioned using the exploratory factor analysis by the principal components method. Qualitative items were also analyzed using the constant comparison method. The results obtained in this research provide a greater perspective and practical knowledge and support of usefulness and practical reality to businesspeople and employees, leaders and university graduates, and also extensive to students, teachers, and human beings in general, in order to be better prepared to give and apply solutions with their consequent ethical and productive achievements desired by all. Additionally, this current research has the purpose to raise the will to understand, at a higher level and at a more in-depth degree of knowledge, the relationship between ethics, leadership, teamwork, effective communication, productivity, and performance, in the attempt to foster a creative and innovative business environment, based on a robust and sustainable business administration and business competencies, capable to position at higher ranks the strengths, opportunities, aspirations and outcomes that today’s new economy is due to offer and diminish the dangerous effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the COVID-19 crisis in all the domains.

Building Smart City management concepts is based on the implementation and use of advanced technologies. The primary impulse for writing the article was the ambition to identify the current advanced technologies of Smart City management. The aim of the article is to propose a general model for the implementation of advanced technologies for Smart City management, based on the knowledge gained from the analysis of literature and case studies. In order to fulfill the set goal, it is necessary to obtain answers to two research questions. The findings were obtained through a secondary analysis of the literature, i.e., relevant articles from the scientific databases Web of Science and Scopus analysis of case studies of the best Smart Cities practices. According to the Smart City Index 2020 and IESE Cities in Motion, the leaders among the Smart Cities are Singapore and London, followed by Helsinki. In addition to the analyses, the article also uses methods of summarization, comparison, creativity, logic, induction and deduction. Smart Cities use 12 identified advanced technologies in their practice. Strategic management in Singapore, London and Helsinki adapts technology to the needs and requirements of its citizens, thus connecting the technological aspect with the managerial and social aspects. The contributions of the work include results for fellow researchers and a model for strategic management of new Smart Cities. The results of the article provide fellow researchers with the findings of a secondary analysis of relevant articles, from which they can draw when writing their own publications without the need for time-consuming search of the articles about this topic in databases. The general model of implementation of advanced technologies serves as a basis for strategic management of new Smart Cities that want to implement a technological base and at the same time do not want to forget the managerial and social aspects. Testing the model in practice with a new Slovak Smart City is part of future research activities.

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine mobile technology as being a key apparatus and interface for collaborative innovation, which allows organisations to develop their information ecology. Design/methodology/approach The qualitative research was performed by in-depth interviews, observations and field notes. The eight main interviews are supported by an interdisciplinary narrative literature review of knowledge management and associated fields. Findings This study validates the following propositions: mobile technology can offer users timely information, mobile technology can foster collaboration beyond physical and organisational boundaries, in general, mobile technology enables a wider amount of interactions between people. Thereby, this paper draws some implications about the knowledge management of creative (and non-creative) workers. Research limitations/implications The collected data sheds light on how organisations and individuals positioned themselves about mobile technology co-creative practices before the COVID era. Therefore, it shall be pertinent to further investigate these findings through a quantitative approach to better ascertain path models and to strengthen the new results with another qualitative perspective, in the post-COVID era. Practical implications The study highlights how mobile devices are facilitating collaborative innovation practices by improving management decisions, enabling new business and/or operating models, developing a flow of ideas inner/outer an organisation and fostering the ability to make innovation. Social implications Mobile technology transforms the way to work (knowledge creation and/or conversion) and it changes the relations between collaborators in a working environment (beyond physical boundaries). This study deciphers how a creative and/or decision-making person can change their work schedule and/or routines based on the use of mobile devices. Originality/value The added value of this transdisciplinary study is that it improves research on collaborative innovation and collective knowledge by revealing three pertinent characteristics of mobile technology: enabling quick decision; connecting with a glocal network and fostering collective creativity. It also creates a bridge between the fields of education and business.

What started as a potentially valuable initiative at Kings & Company was threatening to degenerate into a routine system of rewarding a handful of employees who were brave and lucky enough to get their suggestions pass through multiple gates of evaluation. The company is in the business of manufacturing and selling home appliances in the Indian market. Its financials bear evidence of its success as a business. The CEO, Prakash Parekh, believed in the creative potential of individual employees and wanted to harness it to create sustainable value for the company. He, therefore, conceived of and implemented an employee suggestion scheme (ESS) whereby each employee could give suggestions to improve aspects related to his/her area of work, operations and business. The case describes how the ESS at Kings & Company has evolved from 2013, when it was initiated, till 2017. These changes are juxtaposed with a steady decline in employee satisfaction during the same period. Worried with such a trend, Parekh asks Uday Gupta, GM Human Resources, to review the ESS and recommend further changes, including dropping it altogether.

The present challenging environment determines organizations to differentiate themselves from their competitors finding creative solutions. Business Excellence Models (BEMs) is the appropriate instrument for organizations to create authentic competitive advantages. In dynamic and changing environments characterized by technological changes, a sustainable advantage requires strong dynamic capabilities and integrated elements of BEMs. A comparative analysis of BEMS evolution presented in the paper reflects the challenges and opportunities for further improvement in organizations. Excellence models have been used successfully also in business education. Business education reflects the added value to sound economic development, balancing social and economic interest (Emiliani, 2004). In general, it refers to competitive and motivated academic staff, quality of teaching and learning activities, leadership and management commitment, sustainability of university-business relationship, internationalization strategy and comprehensive curriculum adapted to business environment. There are a lot of environmental forces in different national environments that are placing the excellence dimension on higher education agenda. At the same time, limitations of BEMs models and the nature of higher education institutions put a lot of challenges on leadership and management of these organizations. The objective of the paper is to present and analyse the application of excellence models in higher education institutions and identify creative solutions for management performance.

Purpose of the research.The development of electronic technologies in modern socio-economic environment and the urgent need for their integration into higher education require a different type of teachers’ professional thinking based on their sustainable self-development. The paper provides a reflexive analysis of the implementation of electronic information-educational environment (EIEE) by the Yaroslavl branch of Plekhanov Russian University of Economics and offers an insight into interactive and management aspects of EIEE integration and use in the educational process.Materials and methods.To achieve the goal, the EIEE structural and functional components were identified, stages, system requirements and technical features of EIEE implementation were determined along with the prospects for EIEE further integration and development within the university. Analysis, synthesis, comparison and generalization approaches were used as general scientific methods of this research.Results.The paper gives an insight into the project of the Yaroslavl branch of Plekhanov Russian University of Economics on the use of EIEE as an imperative for high-level development of graduates’ common cultural, as well as general and specific professional competencies, to facilitate their competitiveness in the labour market. The urgency of innovations in the EIEE integration in universities is substantiated. The authors emphasize that the EIEE practical application requires achievement of a new level of communication skills, interaction of all participants in the educational process, based on a broader vision of the educational environment and a new level of teachers’ professional thinking, presupposing both creativity and management of their own mental processes associated with metacognition.Conclusion.As a result, the authors make conclusions on the implementation of various aspects of the university EIEE, such as administrative, managerial and interactive ones. According to the study, a wide application of EIEE can become a priority tool in solving problems of the effectiveness, which is proved by the evidence and examples from the educational experience given in the article.

The purpose. To describe periods of creativity of an outstanding scientist and organizer of branch science Vladimir Ivanovich Kovalevskyi, his contribution to creation and development of domestic agricultural research business. Methods. For decision of research tasks general scientific methods are used: analysis, synthesis, typology, and also methods of scientific knowledge — problem-chronological and comparative-historical. Results. V.I. Kovalevskyi biobibliography is reconstructed with its context filling with results of basic scientific works and disclosure of unknown page of creativity on the post of chairman of a prototype of National academy of agrarian sciences of Ukraine — Agricultural scientific committee of Ukraine (ASCU) — since September 1923 till June, 1924. Conclusions. It is proved that V.I.Kovalevskyi was elected the chairman of ASCU after academician V.I. Vernadskyi, B.G. Ivanytskyi, academician P.A. Tutkovskyi, professors S.L. Frankfurt, and S.F. Veselovskyi. For the period of his stay on a post ASCU moved to Kharkiv and organized the first nation-wide presentation at the First All-Union agricultural and handicraft-industrial exhibition in Moscow (1923), as well as multilateral international scientific cooperation.

The research paper studies the topical problem of increasing the competitiveness of modern enter-prises through the application of creative methods of innovation process management. The expediency of the use of creative methods of the innovation process management is revealed, which is predetermined by the necessity of the formation of long-term competitive advantages in the modern conditions of operation of the enterprises at the level of management tools. To achieve the goals set in the research paper, a system of general scientific and special methods of studying processes and phenomena in their interrelation and development is used, namely: system approach, methods of analysis, synthesis, modeling, systematization, grouping, logical generalization, structural and logical analysis. The research paper presents the role and place of creative management methods in an enterprise management system, which characterize the ways of influencing the management of an enterprise on the activity and interaction of employees of an enterprise involved in the creation of innovative ideas, products and solutions. The place of creative management methods as a tool for achieving the goals of providing innovation-oriented development of enterprises is grounded, which is a stable prerequisite for ensuring the competitiveness of companies in modern highly competitive innovative product markets. Recommendations for implementation of creative methods of innovation activity management of enterprises have been formed; the procedure and the main directions of the solution of existing problems of implementation of the innovation process at enterprises are proposed. The results of this research paper should be considered in the context of their importance to stimulate innovation-oriented development of enterprises, in particular, in the context of the vital need for the formation of sustainable competitive advantages under the conditions of liberalization of markets and globalization.

The development of education in the modern age, following the global progress of knowledge and technology, requires the engagement of managers in preschool institutions. Educational management primarily relies on detailed planning, decision making regarding goals and strategies, and the coordination of human resources. Its overall aim is the effective and efficient functioning of every aspect of the educational process. Through his work, the manager can contribute to the quality of knowledge flow and support the development of the educational system, which is very relevant for a developing country such as the Republic of Serbia. In preschool institutions, where the youngest generation socializes, learns and prepares for further education, the role of a manager needs to be reinforced. With the innovation, dedication and creativity in managing, the manager can strengthen the general organization and the network of employees, which can positively reflect on the inducement of children's potential and key competencies. The aim of this paper is to point out the significance of management in preschool institutions, with an emphasis on human resource management and its relationship with the role of a teacher. Additionally, the state of preschool institutions in the Republic of Serbia is analyzed, with the indication of certain weaknesses and potential chances of the educational system. In it, the implementation of management can serve as an incentive for prosperity.

The publication is devoted to the analysis of the biography and creativity of Gilil Pesakhovich Gindin (1923 – 1998), the designer in the field of domestic aircraft engineering, a specialist in the development of the aircraft wing. In the national history of science and technology, in particular in the aircraft engineering industry, there is almost no information about the biographies, design, technical, engineering or other achievements of those people who under the guidance of O.K. Antonov, created the world-famous domestic transport aircraft. For various reasons, the vast majority of those who directly develop and create airplanes remain in the shadow of the names of general designers - top managers. Therefore, we decided to devote a number of publications to research and description of the domestic aircraft industry personalities. On the basis of personal documents, interview materials of colleagues, contemporaries and information kindly provided by Gilil Peisakhovich’s son, the life path and facts characterizing Gindin G.P. professional achievements during his work at the enterprise, both under the guidance of O.K. Antonov, and afterwards are reproduced. Namely, data on the exploits of G. P. Gindin during the Great Patriotic War are presented, and a list of his military awards is given. Gilil Peisakhovich’s career path is described from a rank-and-file worker, a designer in the wing department to the brigade chief and the head of the KV-22 department. The main design achievements and innovative developments of Gindin G.P. are briefly described. In particular, the fact that with his direct participation the pressed panels of the wing with a length of 28 meters with one ending for the AN-124 "Ruslan" were developed, designed and worked out in production, which is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as a wing, which passed the entire stage of life tests without a single remark and breakdown. For the first time, some little-known data on the activities of the wing department and other features of the creation of the world-famous AN-124 "Ruslan" aircraft are published. In addition, the memoirs of contemporaries about personal, organizational, managerial and business qualities of a famous aircraft manufacturer are given. The publication concluded that Gilil Peisakhovich Gindin undoubtedly made a significant contribution to the development of the domestic aircraft industry, in particular in the field of designing, developing and improving the wing and its mechanization.

International audience; Faced with an environment that is changing faster and faster, companies have long sought to encourage the almost automatic emergence of new approaches that can respond or even anticipate these changes. The development of creativity has become an essential theme. For more than 20 years, companies have been promoting the concept of agility at the same time as they attempted to extend creativity to all employees. Managers have been called upon to implement the corresponding actions. Our research, based on semi-structured interviews with 35 global managers, analyses several aspects of the implementation of the concepts. We looked particularly at what managers think of agility, how this concept relates to the efforts made to develop creativity, what they experienced, and the conditions for success. The analysis of the responses highlights the significant differences in perception, often linked to the functions performed in the company or to nationalities. Regardless of the value associated with agility, the interviewees agreed on the importance of the manager's role while directing it in three different directions. The discussions also identify a series of necessary, but not sufficient conditions for creativity to emerge. Implications for Central European audience: This paper does not deal with a problem specific to Central Europe. It is a general problem going beyond regional limits, as international management tends to use the same concepts everywhere. However, in its processing, we sought to interview several managers from this geographic area. In the second phase, we plan to improve the representativeness of managers from Central Europe to understand better what is specific to them.

Taking the analysis of the Finnish case of public higher education as its starting point, this chapter discusses the following issues: the change in the mission of the university from being a knowledge-oriented to a pragmatically ‘utilitarian’ institution; the university as an institution situated between its academic mission and its entrepreneurial function; the impact of the policy of market competition and accountability on the quality, production and creativity of academic knowledge; the impact of globalisation on the natural sciences and the humanities in academia; and the new power equation involved in the relationships that exist between the faculties and administration.

In this paper, we address the relationship between the intelligence and creativity constructs, by providing equal-level definitions and a parsimonious description of context, allowing the identification of situations in which either one or the other construct prevails, as well as situations in which they overlap and collaborate. The description of context is performed by introducing the metaphor of the space-time continuum, crossing the dimensions of conceptual space S and available time span T, each one varying in continuity from extreme tightness to extreme looseness. The usefulness of the space-time continuum is not limited to the pure comparison between intelligence and creativity, but it can be extended to specific domains. We consider here design of education systems, management styles in business, and development of a creative identity and career. In each case, conceptual space S and available time T take on different and specific nuances, allowing for an in-depth analysis of situations as well as the design of novel approaches. Several paths for future research are highlighted.

The aim of this contribution was to investigate predictors of innovative work behavior (IWB) in nonprofit organizations.For instance, in schools, innovative solutions are crucial as thequality of education and therefore the schools' competitivenessdepends on their ability to keep pace with technological,economic, and societal transformations. We addressed thisissue in a quantitative study with 130 teachers in Dutch secondaryschools employing a time-lag design. In accordancewith self-determination theory, we investigated the role oftransformational leadership for enhancing IWB and the role ofbasic psychological needs satisfaction in mediating this relationship.By employing structural equation modeling, wefound that transformational leadership was positively relatedto the satisfaction of the teachers' needs for autonomy andcompetence. Furthermore, the satisfaction of the need forcompetence positively predicted teachers' IWB. In addition,perceived competence fully mediated the relationshipbetween transformational leadership and teachers' IWB.Accordingly, persons with leadership responsibilities shouldadopt a transformational leadership style and motivate theiremployees by providing individual attention, intellectual stimulation,and encouragement for goal striving. Specifically,leaders may provide feedback on employees' innovative ideasand their strategies for realizing innovative solutions, thushelping them to become increasingly confident about what they can achieve and improve concerning their contributionsto innovation development. For human resource development(HRD) professionals, our findings imply that efforts towardleadership training and development (e.g., training, coaching,and mentoring) should incorporate knowledge and practicalexperiences about transformational leadership as well as itsrole for employees' IWB and their contributions to organizationaland professional development.

Data availability statement: Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analysed in this study. Copyright :© 2020 The Authors. The changing dynamics and unpredictable forces of geo-politics and geo-economics have implications for leadership, politics, businesses and especially those in the financial and equity markets. However, these dynamics remain elusive to most business leaders who fail to adopt creative solutions in turning such challenges into lucrative and sustainable business enterprises. This article premises on an interview with Maxim Shashenkov, managing director of Arterial Capital Management, where he ponders on the complexities of the geo-politics and geo-economic rivalry that defines the current international business arena This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

Multicultural teams offer a number of advantages to international firms, including deep knowledge of different product markets, culturally sensitive customer service, and 24-hour work rotations. But those advantages may be outweighed by problems stemming from cultural differences, which can seriously impair the effectiveness of a team or even bring itto a stalemate. How can managers best cope with culture-based challenges? The authors conducted in-depth interviews with managers and members of multicultural teams from all over the world. Drawing on their extensive research on dispute resolution and teamwork and those interviews, they identify four problem categories that can create barriers to a team's success: direct versus indirect communication, trouble with accents and fluency, differing attitudes toward hierarchy and authority, and conflicting norms for decision making. If a manager--or a team member--can pinpoint the root cause of the problem, he or she is likelier to select an appropriate strategy for solving it. The most successful teams and managers, the authors found, dealt with multicultural challenges in one of four ways: adaptation (acknowledging cultural gaps openly and working around them), structural intervention (changing the shape or makeup of the team), managerial intervention (setting norms early or bringing in a higher-level manager), and exit (removing a team member when other options have failed). Which strategy is best depends on the particular circumstances--and each has potential complications. In general, though, managers who intervene early and set norms; teams and managers who try to engage everyone on the team; and teams that can see challenges as stemming from culture, not personality, succeed in solving culture-based problems with good humor and creativity. They are the likeliest to harvest the benefits inherent in multicultural teams.

Purpose: The study aims to address the low student motivation in learning and the lack of creativity, especially during lectures. Design/Methodology/Approach: The research used the qualitative descriptive research approach to determine the effectiveness of learning through an online instructional system. The participants comprised of 145 students of the Educational Administration study program. Practical Implications: The research findings indicated students’ increased interest in conducting the discussions with the lecturers and the other students, proving the effectiveness of information systems in learning. With the challenges associated with mobility coupled with the convenience information systems present like almost unlimited access to academic information, the future of education will be inseparable from information systems. Before the current situation, online learning thought it had been around for years, it was unpopular, mostly it was used in developed countries, but currently, the abrupt global confinement has led to online schooling and learning as a new norm at a national level and also turning out to be a global trend, influencing the mode of learning and delivery in developing countries, such as Indonesia. Originality/Value: There are several studies conducted on information management systems in higher education learning, but its adoption in mainstream learning systems in higher education has been treated with reservations’ policymakers in many countries. This study's value is to draw more attention to the empirical proof effectiveness of these systems in higher learning to stimulate policy shifts towards its adoption as mandatory mainstream learning systems even after the social lockdown measures are currently gripping the world., peer-reviewed

Search and recombination are important mechanisms in the creativity phase of innovation. Digital transformation and the resulting pervasive digitalization of the innovation function have often been associated with increasing possibilities for search and recombination. In this paper, by systematically integrating the search and recombination literature with the literature on digitalization, we demonstrate that digitalization may engender new idiosyncratic tensions in the organizational antecedents of search and recombination and, by implication, in their likely outcomes. We propose that, depending on the interactions among the idiosyncratic tensions identified herein, knowledge recombination might spur very different outcomes, including knowledge layering, knowledge integration, knowledge grafting, or even no recombination at all (which we label “search for the sake of search”). These outcomes may not always be the initially planned desired outcomes. Finally, we provide implications of our integrative framework pertaining to product development and to organizing for innovation.

Purpose – to explore a crowdsourcing data-driven approach to construct crowdknowledge databases for innovation through supporting creative idea generation. In the approach, social media will be used as platforms to crowdsource knowledge for producing the databases. Findings. Creativity is an essential element of innovation, but producing creative ideas is often challenging in design. Many computational tools have become available recently to support designers in producing creative ideas that are new to individuals. As a standard feature, most of the tools rely on the databases employed, such as ConceptNet and the US Patent Database. This study highlighted that the limitations of these databases have constrained the capabilities of the tools and, thereby, new computational databases supporting the generation of new ideas to a crowd or even history are needed. Crowdsourcing outsources tasks conventionally performed in-house to a crowd and uses external knowledge to solve problems and democratize innovation. Social media is often employed in crowdsourcing for a crowd to create and share knowledge. Originality/value/scientific novelty of the research. This paper proposes a novel approach employing social media to crowdsource knowledge from a crowd for constructing crowd knowledge databases. Practical importance of the research. The crowd knowledge database is expected to be used by the current computational tools to support designers producing highly creative ideas that are new to the crowd, in new product design, and ultimately to innovation. Research limitations/Future research. In this study to provide insights and potential directions for future research are discussed that challenges of employing described approach. Paper type – theoretical.

Given the emerging challenges in a globalized and integrated world, achievement of organizational goals requires new kinds of leadership beyond classical thinking, centered on creativity, innovation, insight, logical sense, and acknowledging customer demands and preferences. Thus, this paper analyzes some emerging leadership styles in globalized at information age. In this context, lateral and thought leadership will be examined from various perspectives. In this study, after a brief theoretical analysis, focused on the evolution and the main characteristics of both leadership styles. Next, the similarities and differences of the leadership with each other and with conventional leadership will be studied. The paper will then be summarized achieved findings at conclusion. The major finding is that both leaderships, as a relatively new approach, focuses on meeting the challenges of corporate business emerging in a globalized world with a slight difference methods and implementation.

The companies in production sector in intense competitionenvironment fall behind as a result of not showing performance in desired leveland leave from the sector. In particular, psychological factors that employeesexperience in the organization have a positive or negative effect. One of themost important factors in the positive or negative effects of thesepsychological effects is leadership style. Within the scope of the aim of thestudy is to analyze the relationship between moral leadership, creativity, effectivecommunication, emotional exhaustion and instrinsic motivation variables onengineers working in production sector. When the data obtained as a result ofthe study is analyzed, it was concluded that Emotional Exhaustion had negativebut intrinsic motivation had a positive effect on employees. SPSS 25 Program was used to analyze the datacollected from 427 white-collar employees in the production sector. Afterconfirmatory and explanatory factor analysis and reliability analysis,correlation analysis, regression analysis and interobserver effect analysiswere performed., Yoğun rekabet ortamında üretim sektöründe bulunanfirmaların istenilen seviyede performans sergileyememeleri sonucunda, yarıştageriye düşmekte ve sektörden çıkmak zorunda kalmaktadırlar. Özellikleçalışanların örgüt içinde yaşadıkları psikolojik etkenler, olumlu yada olumsuzyönde etki etmektedir. Bu olumlu yada olumsuz yöndeki etkiler genellikleçalışanların ve örgütün performansında ortaya çıkmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacıda üretim sektöründe çalışan mühendisler üzerinde ahlaki liderlik, yaratıcılık,etkili iletişim, duygusal tükenme ve içsel motivasyon değişkenleri arasındakiilişkilerin analiz edilmesidir. Çalışmanın sonucunda elde edilen veriler analizedildiğinde; Duygusal Tükenmenin çalışanlar üzerinde negatif ama içselmotivasyonun olumlu yönde etkisinin olduğu sonucuna varılmıştır. Araştırmanınamacı kapsamında Üretim sektöründe bulunan 427 beyaz yakalı çalışan ile anketçalışması yürütülmüştür. Verilerin analiz edilmesinde IBM SPSS 25 İstatistikPaket Programı kullanılmıştır. Likert ölçeğinin kullanıldığı sorulardaDoğrulayıcı ve açıklayıcı faktör analizi yapıldıktan sonra güvenirlilik analiziyapılmıştır. Araştırma modeli kapsamında; Değişkenler arasındaki ilişkilerinincelenmesinde korelasyon analizi; hipotezlerin test edilmesinde regresyonanalizi ve ara değişken etkisinin analizinde sobel testi kullanılmıştır.

The effect of leadership behavior on work performance is highly context sensitive. We address this notion by investigating leadership behavior in one important but understudied organizational context—namely, professional service firms (PSFs). We examine how partners’ leadership behavior in a PSF relates to employee self-leadership, creative climate, and work performance (N = 442). The results show that partners’ consideration leadership behavior is positively related to employees’ perceived work performance. Moreover, partners’ consideration and intellectual stimulation leadership behavior are especially important drivers of self-leadership and creative climate in a PSF, which in turn are positively related to employees’ work performance. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

This paper aims to explore controlling, one of the key management functions, and autonomy at work, a determinant of employee control. Another purpose of this research is to examine the differences in autonomy or, more precisely, to find out to what degree autonomy among non-managers may affect creativity, innovation and business performance of an organization. The research was performed in food companies in the Republic of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The data collected via a questionnaire were analysed by the SPSS statistical software. Five-level Likert scale was used to rate the responses. The main findings show that employees in food companies in Serbia perceive a higher level of autonomy than their counterparts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and that the level of autonomy varies among different departments, the highest being in marketing and sales.

Researchers of related topics agree that the large-scale top-down development of a creative cluster by a real estate developer may obstruct rather than facilitate creativity and creative entrepreneurialism. OCT Loft, a design industry park in Shenzhen, China, is being celebrated as an exception. Based on analyses of primary and secondary data, we find that the Loft’s success can be attributed to two factors. First, the choice of design as the target industry was appropriate. Design is a fast-growing industry and thus needs space for expansion. Second, the developer chose tenants with good reputations in the industry rather than those offering the highest rent. Both these factors are difficult to implement. First, a growing industry is hard to find in a city where urban regeneration is needed. Second, the majority of developers cannot pass up maximising rent for a good reputation as OCT did. Indeed, OCT was able to pursue the Loft’s creative success because giving a good impression to potential clients was expected to result in future opportunities that would raise profit further. In sum, a large-scale top-down development can facilitate creative entrepreneurialism but only when the developer is not hasty in demanding an immediate return on investment.

Since the Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging phenomenon, there is a lack of holistic understanding of what IoT is and what business opportunities it can offer for entrepreneurs and existing companies. This article has three main parts. First, it introduces IoT as a broad, socio-technical phenomenon. As a part of this goal, the article covers various elements within the technological, physical, and socioeconomic environments that comprise IoT. Second, this article proposes two approaches for creating new business models using IoT: a sustaining approach and a disruptive approach. The article concludes with a brief reflection on the extent to which the future of IoT can be predicted. This discussion brings up the limitations of the approach for creating new business models outlined in this article and provides guidelines on how this approach should be used. The ultimate goal of this article is to stimulate thinking, creativity, and entrepreneurship in relation to the IoT.