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    • Adsul, Tejas Rajratna (2021-07-14)
      Innovations are fundamental for a sustainable growth of science. Studying the process of innovation and understanding how rate of discovering creative and new ideas can be optimized is essential in order to ensure the ...
    • Hoppenfeld, Jared; Graves, Stephanie J.; Sewell, Robin R.; Halling, T. Derek (Taylor & Francis, 2019-06-04)
      Sedentary behavior has increased over the last several decades, and this has led to major life-threatening health issues. Texas A&M University Libraries has introduced an innovative idea in three of their buildings. This ...
    • Scoresby, Richard Blair (2018-08-01)
      CEOs face a number of options regarding how to lead their firms in pursuing innovation. Two important modes of innovation are internal innovation through R&D and external innovation through acquisition activity. Past ...
    • Lopez, Ricardo (2012-07-16)
      Idea generation is one of the major initial steps of the design process. Designers frequently use analogies to explain concepts, predict potential problems, and generate ideas. Analogous design can stimulate idea generation ...
    • Vadakkepatt, Gautham Gopal (2011-10-21)
      In this dissertation, I develop frameworks and models capturing the effects of marketing capital and R and D capital on firm growth and sustained membership in the Fortune 500 cohort. Drawing on the resource-based view ...
    • Hanson, Nicole Lynn (2015-07-27)
      Global firms are increasingly moving new product development (NPD) to large emerging markets, such as India and China. In my dissertation, I study two potential NPD strategies that a global firm can pursue when entering ...
    • Lavergne, Christopher Bernard (Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)
      The purpose of this study was to determine factors influencing cotton producer adoption of Precision Agriculture in the cotton belt according to members of the American Cotton Producers of the National Cotton Council. The ...
    • Coopersmith, Jonathan (2020-07-24)
      Failure is an integral and normal part of a technology's evolution. Widely viewed, failure extends from the commercial collapse of a firm promoting new technology and the inability of a technology to profit in the marketplace ...
    • Wurtz, William (2009-05-15)
      Changes brought about primarily by accelerating information technology have elevated innovation to the forefront of organizations’ strategic concerns as the only sustainable competitive advantage. Innovation in turn requires ...
    • Florkowski, Melanie (2023-04-21)
      Animals are in constant interaction with single-celled organisms. These microbes inhabit an animal’s environment as well as most surfaces of the body, including the skin and gut. The intimate relationship animals have with ...
    • Hemler, Christopher Kyle (2021-12-07)
      Traditional scholarship maintains that the United States Marine Corps’ operational success in the Pacific War rested upon two dominant factors: committed theoretical preparation and courageous battlefield action. Put simply, ...
    • Edwardson, Nicholas (2014-08-13)
      Any single health service organization today is likely engaged in dozens of concurrent, often times unrelated change initiatives. Each of these change initiatives is likely supported by evidence that demonstrates the ...
    • Griffin, James M.; Ladmirault, Robert Joseph Jr (Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy, 2019-04)
    • Sy, Valerie (2022-04-04)
      Sustaining long-term viability requires that firms undergo many changes throughout their lifecycles. When a firm recognizes that its current strategy is unsatisfactory, it may engage in strategic renewal—a process of ...
    • Parker, Robert Reed (2011-08-08)
      When systems designers are making decisions about which components or technologies to select for a design, they often use experience or intuition to select one technology over another. Additionally, developers of new ...
    • Stewart, Stephen Alan (2023-06-16)
      Historically, states have taxed intangible income in the state where a firm’s intangibles are located. However, over the past two decades, states have begun adopting market-based sourcing (MBS), which causes the intangible ...
    • Karuppoor, Srinand Sreedharan (Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)
      The ability to design is the distinguishing characteristic of an engineer. Recent research has increased our understanding of both the engineering design process and effective means for teaching that process to neophyte ...