Innovation and the Creative Process: Towards Innovation with Care (New Horizons in the Economics of Innovation series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847203876 ISBN 13: 9781847203878

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

This book explores new frameworks and methods of understanding and analysing innovation. These are set against a backdrop of 'innovation with care', which is seen as a phenomenon that takes place among many actors with different perspectives, ideas and cultures that must be carefully woven together in order to achieve the benefits of innovation

The new perspectives presented by the contributors will be important in encouraging successful innovation across sectors, organizations and people. They examine how people and organizations deal with the tensions and paradoxes in the innovative process between creativity and innovation, variation and selection, and sense and strategy-making. The book also includes a sociological approach to innovation as a complement to economic perspectives in order to better understand how people can benefit from innovation in a number of interesting private and public cases. To benefit from innovation, it concludes, people depend less on formal roles and formal organization than on a caring approach that enables them to deal with and interpret evolutions across people, organizations and sectors.

This highly original, innovative book will provide fascinating reading for a diverse audience, including academics, researchers, policymakers and managers with an interest in innovation, organization studies, institutional theory and, more generally, business and management.

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About the Author

Edited by Lars Fuglsang, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847203876
• ISBN 13: 9781847203878
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Fuglsang Lars