Stuart Napshin

A Methodology for Building Faculty Support for the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education

Evidence from extant literature indicates that faculty support is a critical driver for implementing the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), particularly for schools pursuing an advanced, cross-disciplinary level of sustainability integration. However, there is limited existing research offering insight into how to build faculty support for sustainability programs. Addressing this gap, the authors present an exploratory methodology using a survey and structural model to measure differential faculty support for sustainability. The methodology also increases awareness of the underlying drivers of and barriers to expanding the reach of sustainability across business faculty, ultimately allowing PRME institutions to address their distinct needs. The authors describe application of the methodology at a recent PRME signatory institution, including actions taken as a result of intriguing findings that identified difficulties in gaining broad faculty acceptance of PRME.

The influence of R&D partnerships on innovation in manufacturing firms: The moderating role of institutional attachment

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to investigate how a manufacturers relationship with firms operating in different institutional logics can facilitate or hinder the outcomes of research partnerships.Design/methodology/approach – The paper tests the study hypotheses based on a survey of 345 Chinese manufacturers.Findings – Results reveal that a manufacturers partnerships with private firms and government institutions are both directly related to the manufacturers innovation performance. However, the effectiveness of the research partnerships depends on the different institutional logics within which these organizations operate.Research limitations/implications – This study used a binary variable to capture the existence or absence of the partnership types examined implying that this variable does not capture the quantity of R&D relationships the firm is engaged in or the time period of such engagements.Practical implications – It is important for management to take into account the joint effect of bot...

Partner Attachment to Institutional Logics: The Influence of Congruence and Divergence

Partnerships are increasingly important to firm product innovation. They also increasingly involve parties that are attached to different institutional logics. We examine the effect of firm and partner attachments to the same and different institutional logics. Findings suggest that when partners are attached to the same institutional logic, new product development performance is positively influenced. However, when partners are attached to different institutional logics, new product development is negatively influenced. When controlling for attachment to different institutional logics, partnerships with private companies are more beneficial than partnerships with government research institutions.

R&D Partnerships: Differential Attachment to the Rule Systems that make up the Institutional Environment

Partnerships increasingly involve parties that differ in their attachment to rule systems that make up the institutional environment with policy and business systems being two notable examples. In this study, the effect of firm and partner attachments to the same and different rule systems is examined. Findings suggest that when partners are attached to the same rule system, innovation performance is influenced positively; when partners are attached to different rule systems, innovation performance is influenced negatively.