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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (29 Nov 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0415250307
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415250306
  • Product Dimensions: 22 x 17.1 x 1.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 744,942 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This key book takes a critical look at major perspectives on innovation, suggesting that innovation is not a designed functional activity of a firm or an intentional process through which firms anticipate changes in conditions.


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People in organizations often speak of innovation as if it were the ultimate new idea one that would finally deliver them from the pressures of competition if they could only make the right rational choice. Since they believe that innovation is the realization of a rationally chosen goal, it is difficult to explain, even to themselves, why they never reach this promised land, and must instead keep innovating. From the perspective of rational choice, one can only conclude that failure to identify an innovation in advance is due to incompetence, and this inevitably leads to frustration and anxiety.
Complexity and Innovation in Organizations takes a different approach. Innovation is simply shown to be a new patterning of our experiences of being together, as new meaning emerges from ordinary, every-day work conversations. Viewed from a complex responsive process perspective, innovation feels less menacing and becomes a challenging, exciting process of participating with others in the evolution of wo

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4.0 out of 5 stars Real innovation cases with real people in real life, 21 Dec 2001
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At last a book that talks about innovation as it happens in companies. Not as some highly programmed process that bares no life and could as well be conducted by a bunch of robots. This book describes real innovation processes with real people in real everyday life. The cases described were not simply the product of filling in some forms but of years of research with the people innovating as they were innovating. Challenging reading for managers and scholars.
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