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Record Nr.

UNINA9910679547403321

Autore

Fonseca Jose <1965->

Titolo

Complexity and innovation in organizations / / Jose Fonseca

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2002

ISBN

9781134577118

1134577117

9781134577125

1134577125

9780429228933

0429228937

9780203164945

0203164946

9780415250306

0415250307

9781280068560

1280068566

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (141 pages)

Collana

Complexity and emergence in organizations

Disciplina

658.514

Soggetti

Technological innovations - Management

Business enterprises - Technological innovations

Complex organizations - Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter Innovation as complex responsive processes of relating -- chapter 2 Mainstream thinking about innovation in organizations -- chapter Innovation as a rational planning process -- chapter Innovation as a social and political process -- chapter 3 The role of the individual in the process of innovation -- chapter The role of the individual -- chapter 4 The conversational nature of the innovation process -- chapter Repairs to the water distribution system -- chapter 5 Innovation as complex responsive processes The complexity sciences as source domain for analogies with -- chapter What innovation is -- chapter 6 Innovation and the



reconfiguration of power relations -- chapter The story of an electronic product catalogue -- chapter The take off of the product catalogue -- chapter 7 Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

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.