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Post 9/11 events not only exposed the visible and invisible aspects of the often intertwined self‐interest of political, economic and especially religious elites, but also presented a practical and ideological vacuum susceptible to “once and for all” opportunistic fantasies of ultra and Neo‐conservative, cum religious, fanatics. The purpose of this paper is to counter balance the constant flow of Neo‐liberal and religious‐fundamentalist propaganda that is having a destructive effect on hard‐won civil ideals and democratic freedoms.

This paper presents a study of the relationship between visible and invisible power in the context of a historical study of the great age of tolerance and co‐existence between Jews, Muslims and Christians. The paper uses Benvenisti's “double history” methodology to recover what is visible on the surface and the “buried history” of what is invisible to discern the implications the Spanish Convivencia has for contemporary debates over political and religious “purity”.

This paper discovers dangerous signs of a continuing ahistorical hubris amongst elites and others that denies the historical evidence for the possibility of mutual accommodations between political and religious communities. This paper locates the need to recover lost, or discounted, multiple histories and (in)visible portents of a future other than the triumphalism of Western, especially “exceptionalist” US interests.

This paper demonstrates the need for more research into the use/misuse of historical evidence within (in)visible power mechanisms designed to serve ideological and hegemonic interests.

In our uncertain age, this paper is notable for developing a historically grounded vision of a real‐politic new world order based on mutual accommodation and respect.

The purpose of this paper is to identify forthcoming fields of innovation management themes with an outline for the most important areas and directions of academic research and management practice.

Key trends in innovation research are derived from an extensive literature review. In addition, major macroeconomic trends and new technologies were identified to finally develop a conceptual framework.

The paper identifies seven major fields for future research in innovation management theory and practice. These areas are namely customer orientation, network organisation, sustainability, frugality, intellectual property, business model and global innovation. Based on the paper literature review, the paper develops a conceptual framework built on intra‐firm and external openness as well as the short‐ and long‐term strategic perspective. Future research areas are finally introduced.

The paper shows a new conceptual framework and establishes a holistic view of innovation management themes in the next years. Based on the framework, future research areas may be identified and managers can identify important concepts.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possibility of using the new marketing research tool of prediction markets (PMs), which integrates customers to into the marketing research process. The research questions are: does taking part in PMs influence customers’ brand perception? Is there a danger of damaging a brand through this tool?

The paper uses a series of five short-term (less than one hour) and five long-term (three weeks) experimental online PMs where customers are integrated into marketing research and apply a series of online-surveys before and after taking part as virtual stock market traders. Subjects of research are taken from the sporting goods industry.

The paper shows that PMs can be used by marketing researchers without the danger of damaging the brand of the products that are subject of the PMs, although customers are being integrated to improve the markets’ forecasting accuracy.

The study's subject are medium priced sporting goods only. Possibly in other product fields, results may differ. Thus, the authors see a field for further research in this limitation.

Managers for marketing intelligence have more reason to make use of the efficient and rather new tool, PMs. Marketers can potentially improve their forecasting accuracy by integrating customer information into their reports. In addition, the authors see a high potential in the area of innovation management as well.

There has been no research on perceptions of PMs and brands at all so far.

To identify key themes and emerging trends in research on innovation management likely to be of increasing importance in the next five to ten years.

Conducts a literature review of highly regarded peer-reviewed journals. Proposes a two-dimensional framework for locating innovation management themes according to the internal or external orientation and their strategic and operational significance.

How do you get – and keep – a competitive edge today? As companies around the world get to grips with ever more intense global competition, innovation and how to manage it effectively are right at the top of the business agenda. This is something that is highly relevant for both large and small organizations. Small and medium-sized companies now use innovation toolkits and networked organizational structures; bigger companies are integrating innovation management into their management processes and adopting open innovation methods. Innovation is central to economic growth and to raising standards of living for people across the world. But since 2006, when the concept of open innovation began to receive wider attention, there has not been much in the way of a discussion of new ideas in this area. What are the key trends for future innovation management? And how can we evaluate their significance either as research topics or for management practice?

Identifies innovation management research areas that are receiving increasing attention and notes others – such as crowdsourcing – that are yet to emerge as distinct areas of study. Shows how different themes overlap and interconnect.

Provides an overview of areas with significant potential to contribute to innovation management research. Notes that these may also be of interest in academic and professional education.

Globalization, advanced by technologies of production and information, created seamless world markets with profound impacts on the world economy. Vast amounts of wealth have been created, but that wealth has been unequally distributed. Such inequality has meant that large numbers of young people have not been able to find the kinds of jobs and careers that provide the “goods” life extolled in a consumer society. Nor do the dominant values of rationality, neo-liberalism or secularism hold much appeal. These conditions have encouraged the emergence of a number of subcultures of transgression, identity-granting communities of meaning which provide members with a sense of community with recognition and empowerment. As many such subcultures repudiate dominant norms, we note how they resemble the medieval carnival, which Bakhtin showed was a time and place of inversion, transgression, and celebration of the grotesque. It allowed the common people encapsulate realms of agency to articulate disdain and resistance. Yet this served to reproduce the dominant system.

In much the same way, insofar as globalization is intimately tied to cities, we have seen the growing importance of cities as nodal points for global commerce as well as sites for entertainment and tourism. These factors, together with the longstanding anonymity and toleration of the city, have become focal points for the emergence of a number of oppositional subcultures. They include those who embrace extreme body modification, numerous forms of body adornment through piercings (rings, posts, studs), tattoos, and surgical modifications such as implanted horns, furrows, or split tongues. Following Simmel, adornment can be seen as a means of inclusion within a group and differentiation from others. The practitioners of extreme body modification label themselves “urban primitives,” who see themselves rejecting global modernity, the occupation-based status hierarchies of the dominant occupational system and its shallow, materialistic culture. They see themselves as a moment of the “transvaluation of values” in which Dionysian passion triumphs over Apollonian control and restraint. This is especially evident in various genital decorations in which what heretofore has been private and exposure was a matter of shame. There has been a “cultural transformation of the pubic sphere.” While such groups find community, identity and recognition, they must also be understood as a key ingredient of the city in a global age in which diversity, cosmopolitanism, and the offbeat constitute essential moments of urban ambience.

This article describes the personal experiences of a person with Asperger's syndrome who has used various services aimed at improving clients' mental health, both public and private. A number of experiences are described as summarised below.a) Post‐traumatic stress caused by experiences of school bullying, being dismissed from a job, and a period of unemployment resulted in the author's referral to a Christian counselling centre. There, specialised counselling sessions proved very beneficial.b) Difficulties in social skills resulted in the author being referred by his general practitioner to a psychiatric nurse, who in turn referred him to an excellent social skills and assertiveness course run by the Mind mental health charity. Experience of further social skills training is also described.c) Low self‐esteem and recurrent insomnia as a result of poor inter‐personal experiences and lack of career progress relative to peer group led to an extended sequence of counselling sessions with a private Christian counsellor. Guided cognitive therapy with this counsellor resulted in a substantial alleviation of both the low self‐esteem and the insomnia.d) The author also received further counselling, from a different counsellor to acquire assertiveness skills, and the ability to deal with aggressive people.In all, the author's experience of mental health intervention was mainly low‐cost Christian counselling, working through self‐help books, and the occasional social skills course. Very little use was made of medication and none of hospital‐based services.