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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821723803321

Titolo

Challenging the innovation paradigm / / edited by Karl-Erik Sveiby, Pernilla Gripenberg and Beata Segercrantz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2012

ISBN

1-136-32452-6

1-280-66251-4

9786613639448

0-203-12097-3

1-136-32453-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in technology, work and organizations ; ; 9

Altri autori (Persone)

SveibyKarl Erik

GripenbergPernilla

SegercrantzBeata

Disciplina

338/.064

Soggetti

Technological innovations - Economic aspects

Diffusion of innovations

Research, Industrial

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Challenging the Innovation Paradigm; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Series Editor Introduction; Preface; 1. Challenging the Innovation Paradigm:The Prevailing Pro-Innovation Bias; Part I Problematizing Innovation; 2. On the Limits of What Can Be Said about 'Innovation': Interplay and Contrasts Between Academic and Policy Discourses; 3. καινοτομιά: An Old Word for a New World, or the De-Contestation of a Political and Contested Concept; 4. The Unintended and Undesirable Consequences: Neglected by Innovation Research

Part II Understanding the Systemic Nature of Innovation5. Accelerating the Innovation Race: Do We Need Reflexive Brakes?; 6. Innovation and the Global Financial Crisis: Systemic Consequences of Incompetence; 7. Weak Signals for Opting Out of the Innovation Race; Part III Exploring Unintended Consequences of Innovation; 8. Do Major Innovation Models Consider Unintended Consequences? A Review and Revised



Framework; 9. From Autonomous Craftsmen to Compliant Resources: Implications for Undesirable Consequences of Innovation; 10. Organizational Innovations: An Exploratory Study of Negative Effects

11. Information and Communication Technology as an Exporter of CO2 Emissions12. Challenging the Innovation Paradigm: Conclusions, Practical Implications, and Future Research; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Innovation is almost always seen as a ""good thing"". Challenging the Innovation Paradigm is a critical analysis of the innovation frenzy and contemporary innovation research. The one-sided focus on desirable effects of innovation misses many opportunities to reduce the undesirable consequences. Authors in this book show how systemic effects outside the innovating firms reduce the net benefits of innovation for individual employees, customers, as well as for society as a whole - also the innovators' own organizations.This book analyzes the dominant discourses that construct