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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sveiby, Karl Erik.

Gripenberg, Pernilla.

Segercrantz, Beata.

Series:

Routledge studies in technology, work and organizations ; 9.

Routledge studies in technology, work and organizations ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations--Economic aspects.

Technological innovations.

Diffusion of innovations.

Research, Industrial.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-136-32452-6

1-280-66251-4

9786613639448

0-203-12097-3

1-136-32453-4

9780203120972

OCLC:

798532953