Challenging the innovation paradigm
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Challenging the innovation paradigm
（Routledge studies in technology, work and organizations, 9）
Routledge, 2012
- : hbk
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Description
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 and reconstruct the assumptions and one-sidedness of contemporary innovation research (generally known as the pro-innovation bias) by focusing on consequences of innovation, distinguishing between intended and unintended as well as desirable and undesirable consequences. Contributors illustrate how both the discourses of innovation and the consequences of innovation permeate all levels of society: in policy discourse, in academic discourse, in research funding, in national innovation systems, in the financial sector, in organizational and work contexts, and in environmental pollution. The volume offers a critical, multidisciplinary, and multinational perspective on the topic, with authors from diverse academic fields examining and making comparisons between a variety of national contexts.
Table of Contents
1. Challenging the Innovation Paradigm: The Prevailing Pro-Innovation Bias Pernilla Gripenberg, Karl-Erik Sveiby and Beata Segercrantz Part 1: Problematizing Innovation 2. On the Limits of What Can Be Said About 'Innovation': Interplay and Contrasts Between Academic and Policy Discourses Martin Fougere and Nancy Harding 3. : An Old Word for a New World, or the De-Contestation of a Political and Contested Concept Benoit Godin 4. The Unintended and Undesirable Consequences: Neglected by Innovation Research Karl-Erik Sveiby, Pernilla Gripenberg and Beata Segercrantz Part 2: Understanding the Systemic Nature of Innovation 5. Accelerating the Innovation Race: Do We Need Reflexive Brakes? Mervi Hasu, Karl-Heinz Leitner, Nikodemus Solitander and Urmas Varblane 6. Innovation and the Global Financial Crisis: Systemic Consequences of Incompetence Karl-Erik Sveiby 7. Weak Signals for Opting Out of the Innovation Race Karl-Heinz Leitner Part 3: Exploring Unintended Consequences of Innovation 8. Do Major Innovation Models Consider Unintended Consequences? A Review and Revised Framework Martin Lindell 9. From Autonomous Craftsmen to Compliant Resources: Implications for Undesirable Consequences of Innovation Beata Segercrantz 10. Organizational Innovations: An Exploratory Study of Negative Effects Almudena Canibano, Oihana Basilio and M. Paloma Sanchez 11. Information and Communication Technology as an Exporter of CO2 Emissions Mitsutaka Matsumoto and Kotaro Kawajiri 12. Challenging the Innovation Paradigm: Conclusions, Practical Implications and Future Research Karl-Erik Sveiby, Pernilla Gripenberg and Beata Segercrantz. List of Contributors. Index
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