Innovation agendas: the ambiguity of value creation

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Author(s): Lisa J. Daniel ^a , Jeremy A. Klein ^b

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[1] Adams, R., Bessant, J. and Phelps, R. (2006) ‘Innovation management measurement: a review’, International Journal of Management Reviews, 8, 1, pp.21–47.

[2] Alvesson, M. and Deetz, S. (2000) ‘A framework for critical research’, in Alvesson, M. and Deetz, S. (eds) Doing Critical Management Research, Sage, London, pp.139–65.

[3] Atuahene-Gima, K. and Murray, J. (2007) ‘Exploratory and exploitative learning in new product development: a social capital perspective on new technology ventures in China’, Journal of International Marketing, 15, 2, pp.1–29.

[4] Autio, E., Sapienza, H. and Arenius, P. (2005) ‘International social capital, technology sharing, and foreign market learning in internationalizing entrepreneurial firms’, Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth, 8, pp.9–42.

[5] Becker, F. (2007) ‘Organizational ecology and knowledge networks’, California Management Review, 49, 2, pp.42–61.

[6] Beckman, S. and Barry, M. (2007) ‘Innovation as a learning process: embedding design thinking’, California Management Review, 50, 1, pp.25–56.

[7] Berglund, H. (2007) ‘Risk conception and risk management in corporate innovation: lessons from two Swedish cases’, International Journal of Innovation Management, 11, 4, pp.497–513.

[8] Brown, J. and Duguid, P. (2001) ‘Knowledge and organization: a social-practice perspective’, Organization Science, 12, 2, pp.198–213.

[9] Butler, R., Price, D., Coates, P. and Pike, R. (1998) ‘Organizing for innovation: loose or tight control?‘, Long Range Planning, 31, 5, pp.775–82.

[10] Chen, M.-H., Chang, Y.-C. and Hung, S.-C. (2008) ‘Social capital and creativity in R&D project teams’, R&D Management, 38, 1, pp.21–34.

[11] Chesbrough, H. (2003) ‘The era of open innovation’, MIT Sloan Management Review, 44, 3, pp.35–42.

[12] Claver, E., Llopis, J., Garcia, D. and Molina, H. (1998) ‘Organizational culture for innovation and new technological behavior’, Journal of High Technology Management Research, 9, 1, pp.55–69.

[13] Clegg, C., Unsworth, K., Epitropaki, O. and Parker, G. (2002) ‘Implicating trust in the innovation process’, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 75, pp.409–22.

[14] Cohen, W. and Levinthal, D. (1990) ‘Absorptive capacity: a new perspective on learning and innovation’, Administrative Science Quarterly, 35, 1, pp.128–52.

[15] Daniel, L. (2012) ‘Leveraging bioindustry knowledge: clusters of globally competitive knowledge and innovation’, International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business, 4, 3/4, pp.221–41.

[16] Daniel, L. and Dawson, P. (2011) ‘The sociology of innovation and new biotechnologies’, New Technology Work and Employment, 26, 1, pp.1–16.

[17] Day, G. (2007) ‘Is it real? Can we win? Is it worth doing?‘, Harvard Business Review, 85, 12, pp.110–20.

[18] Eisenhardt, K. (1989) ‘Building theories from case study research’, Academy of Management Review, 14, 4, pp. 532–50.

[19] Etzkowitz, H. and Leydesdorff, L. (2000) ‘The dynamics of innovation: from National Systems and “Mode 2” to a Triple Helix of university-industry-government relations’, Research Policy, 29, 2, pp.109–23.

[20] Fleck, J., Webster, J. and Williams, R. (1990) ‘The dynamics of IT implementation: a reassessment of paradigms and trajectories of development’, Futures, 22, pp.618–40.

[21] Galbraith, J. (1982) ‘Designing the innovating organization’, Organizational Dynamics, 10, Winter, pp.5–25.

[22] Grint, K. and Woolgar, S. (1997) The Machine at Work, Polity Press, Oxford.

[23] Haner, U.-E. (2005) ‘Spaces for creativity and innovation in two established organizations’, Creativity and Innovation Management, 14, 3, pp.288–98.

[24] Hellström, T. (2004) ‘Innovation as social action’, Organization Science, 11, 5, pp.631–49.

[25] Hoffman, R. and Hegarty, W. (1993) ‘Top management influence on innovations: effects of executive characteristics and social culture’, Journal of Management, 19, 3, pp.549–74.

[26] Howells, J. (1996) ‘Tacit knowledge, innovation and technology transfer’, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 8, 2, pp.91–106.

[27] Hoyt, J. and Gerloff, E. (2000) ‘Organizational environment, changing economic conditions, and the effective supervison of technical personnel: a management challenge’, Journal of High Technology Management Research, 10, 2, pp.275–93.

[28] Inkpen, A. and Tsang, E. (2005) ‘Social capital, networks and knowledge transfer’, Academy of Management Review, 30, 1, pp.146–65.

[29] James, W. M. (2003) ‘Are we neglecting the soul of the innovation process?‘, Research Technology Management, 46, 3, pp.9–10.

[30] Jassawalla, A. and Sashittal, H. (2002) ‘Cultures that support product-innovation processes’, Academy of Management Executive, 16, 3, pp.42–54.

[31] Kenny, B. and Reedy, E. (2006) ‘The impact of organisational cultural factors on innovation levels in SMEs: an imperical investigation’, Irish Journal of Management, 27, 2, pp.119–42.

[32] Kristensen, T. (2004) ‘The physical context of creativity’, Creativity and Innovation Management, 13, 2, pp.89–96.

[33] Landry, R., Amara, N. and Lamari, M. (2002) ‘Does social capital determine innovation? To what extent?‘, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 69, pp.681–701.

[34] Leonard, D. and Swap, W. (1999) ‘How managers can spark creativity’, Leader to Leader, 14, pp.43–8.

[35] Lewin, A. Y. and Koza, M. P. (2001) ‘Editorial on the special issue: multi-level analysis and co-evolution’, Organization Studies 22, 6, pp.v-xii.

[36] Liao, Y.-S. (2007) ‘The effects of knowledge management strategy and organizational structure on innovation’, International Journal of Management, 24, 1, pp.53–60.

[37] MacKenzie, D. and Wajcman, J. (1985) The Social Shaping of Technology: How the Refrigerator Got its Hum, Open University Press, Milton Keynes.

[38] MacKenzie, D. and Wajcman, J. (1999) Social Shaping of Technology, McGraw Hill, Buckingham.

[39] Maitlis, S. (2005) ‘The social processes of organizational ssensemaking’, Academy of Management Journal, 48, 1, pp.21–49.

[40] March, J. (1991) ‘Exploration and exploitation in organizational learning’, Organization Science, 2, 1, pp.71–87.

[41] Maurer, I. and Ebers, M. (2006) ‘Dynamics of social capital and their performance implications: lessons from biotechnology start-ups’, Administrative Science Quarterly, 51, 2, pp.262–92.

[42] McLoughlin, I. (1999) Creative Technological Change: The Shaping of Technology and Organisations, Routledge, New York, NY.

[43] McLoughlin, I. and Dawson, P. (2003) ‘The mutual shaping of technology and organisation: between cinema and a hard place’ in Preece, D. and Laurila, J. (eds) Technological Change and Organizational Action, Routledge, London, pp.20–36.

[44] McLoughlin, I. and Harris, M. (1997) Innovation, Organizational Change and Technology, International Thomson Business Press, London.

[45] Moultrie, J., Nilsson, M., Dissel, M., Haner, U.-E., Janssen, S. and Van der Lugt, R. (2007) ‘Innovation spaces: towards a framework for understanding the role of the physical environment in innovation’, Creativity and Innovation Management, 16, 1, pp.53–65.

[46] Myint, Y., Vyakarnam, S. and New, M. (2005) ‘The effect of social capital in new venture creation: the Cambridge high-technology cluster’, Strategic Change, 14, 3, pp.165–77.

[47] OECD (2005) Oslo Manual: Guidelines for Collecting and Interpreting Innovation Data, OECD, Paris, para.177.

[48] Orlikowski, W. (1992) ‘The duality of technology: rethinking the concept of technology in organizations’, Organization Science, 3, 3, pp.398–427.

[49] Pinch, T. and Bijker, W. (1987) ‘The social construction of facts and artefacts: or how the sociology of science and of technology might benefit each other’ in Bijker, W., Hughes, T. and Pinch, T. (eds) The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology of History, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, pp.17–82.

[50] Pohlmann, M. (2005) ‘The evolution of innovation: cultural backgrounds and the use of innovation models’, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 17, 1, pp.9–19.

[51] Prasad, A. (2002) ‘The contest over meaning: hermeneutics as an interpretive methodology for understanding texts’, Organizational Research Methods, 5, 1, pp.12–34.

[52] Rebernik, M. and Širec, K. (2007) ‘Fostering innovation by unlearning tacit knowledge’, Kybernetes, 36, 3/4, pp.406–19.

[53] Rindova, V. and Petkova, A. (2007) ‘When is a new thing a good thing? Technological change, product form design, and perceptions of value for product innovations’, Organization Science, 18, 2, pp.217–32.

[54] Robson, I. and Rawnsley, V. (2001) “Co-operation or coercion?‘, Supplier networks and relationships in the UK food industry’, Supply Chain Management, 6, 1, pp.39–48.

[55] Rogers, E. (1995) Diffusion of Innovations, Free Press, New York, NY.

[56] Rosa, J., Porac, J., Runser-Spanjol, J. and Saxon, M. (1999) ‘Sociocognitive dynamics in a product market’, Journal of Marketing, 63, pp.64–77.

[57] Scott, S. and Bruce, R. (1994) ‘Determinants of innovative behavior: a path model of individual innovation in the workplace’, Academy of Management Journal, 37, 3, pp.580–607.

[58] Trist, E. and Bamforth, K. (1951) ‘Some social and psychological consequences of the long-wall method of coal-getting’, Human Relations, 4, 1, pp.3–38.

[59] Weick, K. (1995) Sensemaking in Organizations, Sage, Thousand Oaks CA.

[60] Williams, R. and Edge, D. (1996) ‘The social shaping of technology’, Research Policy, 25, 6, pp.865–99.

[61] Wong, S.-Y. and Chin, K.-S. (2007) ‘Organizational innovation management: an organization-wide perspective’, Industrial Management and Data Systems, 107, 9, pp.1290–315.

[62] Wu, H. (2007) ‘Examining governance-innovation relationship in the high-tech industries: monitoring, incentive and a fit with strategic posture’, International Journal of Technology Management, 39, pp.86–104.

[63] Yli-Renko, H., Autio, E. and Sapienza, H. (2001) ‘Social capital, knowledge acquisition, and knowledge exploitation in young technology-based firms’, Strategic Management Journal, 22, 6/7, pp.587–613.

[64] Zammuto, R. (1984) ‘A comparison of multiple constituency models of organizational effectiveness’, Academy of Management Review, 9, 4, pp.606–16.