The capability to innovate and to carry innovation successfully down to markets will undoubtedly be a crucial determinant of the global competition among firms in the few upcoming years. There is growing awareness among business leaders that innovative activity is the main driver of economic growth as well as a potential factor in meeting global market challenges. But for innovation to flourish, companies need to understand the core of innovation and the role organizational factors play in the process of innovation. In this book, we examined organizational structure, forms of innovation...

This volume centres on the domain in materials research that is the least investigated: how language teachers and learners use materials, as well as the factors that influence their use. Issues such as how teachers and learners working with materials inform materials writers, how teachers' perspectives influence how they perceive and enact materials, and the factors that contribute to teachers' use of both traditional and innovative textbooks are discussed here, as well as the theoretical frameworks that inform our current understanding of materials' use. The volume presents the reader with...