TSUKAHARA'S VAULT AND FOSBURY'S FLOP: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TWO GREAT INVENTIONS

Michael Bar-Eli (), Oded Lowengart, Mitsuo Tsukahara and Richard Douglas Fosbury
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Michael Bar-Eli: Department of Business Administration, School of Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
Oded Lowengart: Department of Business Administration, School of Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
Mitsuo Tsukahara: Tsukara Gymnastics Center, 5-8-12 Kitakarasuyama, Setagaya-Ku, Tokyo 157-0061, Japan
Richard Douglas Fosbury: Galena Engineering, Inc., 680 Second Avenue North, P.O. B. 425, Ketchum, Idaho, USA

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2008, vol. 12, issue 01, 21-39

Abstract: Studies on innovation and creativity have been quite rare, thus far in the sport management literature. In this study, a comparative analysis was conducted between two great inventions — Tsukahara's Vault and Fosbury's Flop. Mitsuo Tsukahara and Dick Fosbury responded to open-ended questions designed to capture various dimensions in the development of their innovations. A content analysis was conducted on the data obtained through this semi-structured interview technique. The comparison between these two cases revealed an amazingly similar pattern in the structure of the innovative process. The major conclusion drawn from this analysis is that the principles of optimisation and creativity-enhancement should be conceived as being complimentary, in the promotion of innovative processes in various areas.

Keywords: Innovation; creativity; evolution; incremental process (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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