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Introduction : How does novelty emerge?
No full textIn this introductory chapter, we clarify how contemporary organizational scholars view emergence and novelty. As the use of these terms has grown, their meanings have become increasingly diffuse. In response, we explicate three lenses that tease out core distinctions between different philosophical and theoretical approaches to studying emergence. Each of the three lenses, which we call respectively spatial emergence, relational emergence, and temporal emergence, is based on a unique pairing of underlying assumptions about the exogenized or endogenized nature of both space and time. Each also has particular implications for practitioners seeking practical insights into emergence, and for researchers conducting studies on emergence. In addition, we introduce the chapters in this volume, which offer a variety of philosophical, theoretical, and empirical perspectives on the theme of novelty emergence. In introducing the chapters in Part I, which engage directly with this theme, we emphasise the interplay between the three lenses. The remaining chapters in Part II address developments more generally in the domain of process organization studies
Can Large Firms Really Leverage Radical Innovation? In Search of New Dimensions and Strategies
No full textEmerging trends in the digitization of product and services, the increased relevance of distributed and combinatory innovation as well as the sharing (collaborative) economy are urging the need for new forms of incumbent’s innovation, based on the development of new capacities to deal with ambiguity. The aims of this symposium are twofold. First, we develop emerging insights on new dimensions and strategies required to established firms to handle exploration and exploitation opportunities in the light of the new competitive scenarios. Second, we consolidate a number of key research directions to provide a common ground for discussion of the strategic priorities in the light of recent industry transformations. We assembled four papers focusing on complementary perspectives: the types of trajectories of impact (and disruption) depending on the nature of innovations, the importance of cognitive frames in decision-making processes (incumbents’ response to disruptive innovation), the mechanisms enabling organizational support for the successful development of novel ideas from daily work and the relevance of balancing exploration and exploitation activities across multiple modes. Following the presentations, two high-profile scholars leading the interactive plenary session (Mary Tripsas, Boston College; Justin Jansen, Rotterdam School of Management) will unpack and discuss the actual and future research avenues about the ability of incumbent firms to leverage radical innovations and their impact on management practices
The Emergence of Novelty in Organizations
No full textThe contributions in this volume offer both theoretical insights and empirical studies on, inter alia, innovation, music technology, haute cuisine, pharmaceuticals and theatre improvisation. In doing so, they throw light on the importance of emergence, improvisation and learning in organizations, and how both practitioners and scholars alike can best understand their own assumptions about process. In addition, the volume includes general essays on process perspectives in organization studies
Conceptions of process in organization and management : the case of organizational identity
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Commentary: The Process of Relational Contracting: Developing Trust-Based Strategic Alliances Among Small Business Enterprises
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Technological innovation oversights and foresights
No full textTechnological Innovation analyzes why companies choose certain new technologies, from a technological, economic, and institutional perspective. The contributors demonstrate how innovation outcomes can be systematic and enacted by technology entrepreneurs who are able to break away from constraints of the past in order to actively manage innovation in the present. Based upon multidisciplinary research on technological choice, the book bridges research and practice. Technology Innovation will appeal to academics, students, researchers, consultants, and practitioners who are concerned with technology management
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The Paradox of Stability and Change : Elias’ Processual Sociology
No full textThe chapter explores the contribution of the process sociologist Norbert Elias to processual organisational scholarshi
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