Innovating in Practice : Perspectives and Experiences.

• Main Author: Russo-Spena, Tiziana
• Other Authors: Mele, Cristina, Nuutinen, Maaria
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2016.
• Subjects: Business.; Leadership.; Management.; Industrial management.; Economics > Sociological aspects.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319433806; 9783319433783
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (523 pages)

The purpose of the book is to devise an alternative conceptual vocabulary for studying innovation by stressing the role of social, contextual and cultural perspectives. This vocabulary is drawn on a service and on sociological perspectives on innovation based on the ontological assumption that innov...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword; References; Contents; List of Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 A New Book on Innovation: Why?; 1.2 Novelty of the Book: Innovating in Practice; 1.3 Structure; References; Part I: Perspectives: Conceptual Insights; Chapter 2: Schools of Innovation Thought; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Dimensions of Social Science Research; 2.3 The Process of Schooling; 2.4 Schools of Innovation Thought; 2.4.1 Linear and Planned School; 2.4.2 Iterative and Interactive Innovation School; 2.4.3 Practice-Based School; 2.5 Conclusion; References.
• Chapter 3: Extending the Context of Innovation: The Co-creation and Institutionalization of Technology and Markets3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Context of Innovation: A Service-Ecosystems View; 3.3 Institutionalization as an Underlying Process of Innovation; 3.4 Technological Innovation as the Institutionalization of Value Propositions; 3.5 Market Innovation as the Institutionalization of New Solutions; 3.6 Discussion and Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Market Innovation: Renewal of Traditional Industrial Networks; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Research Process.
• 4.2.1 The RAdical Market Innovations (RAMI) Research Program4.2.2 The Process and Principles of Synthesizing the Findings; 4.3 Conceptual Framework for Creating Innovative Market Definitions; 4.4 Managerial Framing of Market Innovations; 4.5 Challenges in Creating Innovative Market Definitions in Traditional Industrial Networks; 4.5.1 Market Size Myopia; 4.5.2 Embeddedness of Relevant Know-How; 4.5.3 Negative Impacts of Market Relationships on Systemic Innovations; 4.5.4 Need to Develop New Business Models to Match New Markets; 4.6 Conclusions; 4.6.1 Theoretical Contribution.
• 4.6.2 Managerial Implications4.7 Limitations and Further Research Avenues; References; Chapter 5: Practice-Based Approaches to Learning and Innovating; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Research Process; 5.3 Three Practice-Based Learning Approaches; 5.4 Key Mechanisms and Contribution to Innovation; 5.4.1 Processes Orientation; Contribution to Innovation Debate; 5.4.2 Social Aspects of Knowing and Learning; Contribution to Innovation Debate; 5.4.3 Attention to the Unorderly; Contribution to Innovation Debate; 5.4.4 Knowledge as Situated in a Spatio-temporal Context; Contribution to Innovation Debate.
• 5.4.5 Tools, Artefacts and ObjectsContribution to Innovation Debate; 5.5 Summary and Discussion of the Learning Features to Contribute to the Innovation Debate; 5.6 Implications and Further Avenues of Research; References; Part II: Perspectives: A Practice-Based View; Chapter 6: Innovating as a Texture of Practices; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Conceptual Background; 6.2.1 Innovation as an Outcome of Sequential Activities; 6.2.2 Innovation as Co-creation by A2A Collaboration; 6.2.3 Innovation as a Knowing in Interconnected Practices; 6.3 Research Design; 6.4 Innovating as a Texture of Practices.