Complexity and innovation in organizations / Jose Fonseca.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fonseca, José, 1965-

Series:

Complexity and emergence in organizations.

Complexity and emergence in organizations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations--Management.

Technological innovations.

Business enterprises--Technological innovations.

Business enterprises.

Complex organizations--Management.

Complex organizations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (141 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781134577118

1134577117

9781134577125

1134577125

9780429228933

0429228937

9780203164945

0203164946

9780415250306

0415250307

9781280068560

1280068566

OCLC:

437083371