Buch, Englisch, 486 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g
Volume IV Current and Emerging Trends
Buch, Englisch, 486 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g
ISBN: 978-1-138-85927-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Innovation is the means by which organizations survive and thrive in uncertain and turbulent conditions. Technological change, globalization, and changing patterns of consumption are compounding the complex and rapidly changing circumstances in which organizations operate. The average tenure of a Fortune 500 company has dropped from 40 to 15 years. One half of all USA start-ups go out of business before their fourth year. Innovation – the successful application of new ideas – allows organizations to understand, respond to, and lead the changes needed to endure and succeed in such environments. Innovation is what connects knowledge with economic action.
Innovation does not happen automatically: it has to be managed. We now have a substantial body of robust literature that explains why innovation needs to be managed, what is to be done and how it is to be done. The emphasis is on ‘robust’ - ie high-quality theoretical and empirical - research because innovation is an area renowned in its demand for and supply of simplistic solutions. It is a concept that is often misunderstood and misrepresented. Organizations want quick and easy answers to their innovation problems, and there’s no shortage of consultants prepared to sell them. Innovation management is also highly topical and there is no shortage of mediocre research in the field (there is a rapid increase in the number of journals with ‘innovation’ in the title).
Fortunately we have a substantial number of seminal, ‘classic’ articles. It is the intent of this collection to publish a structured selection of these papers. Together they will provide an authoritative guide on the field, its development, core content, and current and emerging issues. It will provide a guide through the maze of confusion around the nature, process and outcomes of innovation management, and will be an invaluable source for those studying and researching the subject. This will include those in the increasing number of specialist postgraduate courses in the area, and in undergraduate programmes in business and engineering.
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Introduction to Volume IV 52 Design, meanings, and radical innovation: a metamodel and a research agenda 53 Clarifying business models: origins, present, and future of the concept54 The process of new service development: issues of formalization and appropriability 55 Innovation in megaprojects: systems integration at London Heathrow Terminal 5 56 Learning to adapt: organisational adaptation to climate change impacts 57 Innovation communities 58 Why do users contribute to firm-hosted user communities? The case of computer-controlled music instruments 59 Introduction to Open Innovation 60 Open for innovation: the role of openness in explaining innovation performance among U.K. manufacturing firms 61 How open is innovation? 62 The role of technology in the shift towards open innovation: the case of Procter & Gamble 63 “In case of fire, please use the elevator”: simulation technology and organization in fire engineering 64 Organizational learning and the technology of foolishness: the case of virtual worlds at IBM 65 China’s innovation system and the move towards harmonious growth and endogenous innovation 66 Mexican maquiladoras: new capabilities of coordination and the emergence of a new generation of companies 67 Innovation for inclusive growth: towards a theoretical framework and a research agenda 68 Thriving in the automated economy.
