Understanding Novelty in Organizations
Understanding Novelty in Organizations

Author: Maria Laura Frigotto

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-08-29

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 3319560964

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Providing a first tentative understanding of novelty and a set of implications for organizations to manage it, this book focuses on the potential offered by emergent novelty, namely novelty which is neither designed nor pursued. The author asks how organizations might increase their abilities and strategies to benefit from its early recognition. Such potential is broken down into positive terms and demonstrates how early recognition is beneficial both to organizations which aim to seize emergent innovations as well as those which aim to avoid emergent disasters. Understanding Novelty in Organizations aims to rethink the structure and strategies of organizations to gain a new balance between design and randomness in the generation of novelty. The varied perspectives presented in this work will engage scholars interested in novelty, innovation and creativity, and emergency management.

The Emergence of Novelty in Organizations
The Emergence of Novelty in Organizations

Author: Raghu Garud

Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 019872831X

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This volume seeks to develop processual understandings of how novelty emerges in the processes of organizing by drawing on scholarship from a diverse range of perspectives. The volume covers creativity, improvisation, invention, entrepreneurship, and innovation in organizations.

The Innovation Mode
The Innovation Mode

Author: George Krasadakis

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-07-29

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 3030451399

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This book presents unique insights and advice on defining and managing the innovation transformation journey. Using novel ideas, examples and best practices, it empowers management executives at all levels to drive cultural, technological and organizational changes toward innovation. Covering modern innovation techniques, tools, programs and strategies, it focuses on the role of the latest technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence to discover, handle and manage ideas), methodologies (including Agile Engineering and Rapid Prototyping) and combinations of these (like hackathons or gamification). At the same time, it highlights the importance of culture and provides suggestions on how to build it. In the era of AI and the unprecedented pace of technology evolution, companies need to become truly innovative in order to survive. The transformation toward an innovation-led company is difficult – it requires a strong leadership and culture, advanced technologies and well-designed programs. The book is based on the author’s long-term experience and novel ideas, and reflects two decades of startup, consulting and corporate leadership experience. It is intended for business, technology, and innovation leaders.

Organizational Hybridity
Organizational Hybridity

Author: Marya Besharov

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2020-12-07

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1839093544

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This book contains Open Access chapters This volume integrates and redirects research on organizational hybridity, the mixing of logics, forms, and identities that do not conventionally go together. It sets a foundation for continued analytical rigor and real-world relevance.

The Emergence of Organizations and Markets
The Emergence of Organizations and Markets

Author: John F. Padgett

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2012-10-14

Total Pages: 607

ISBN-13: 0691148872

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The social sciences have sophisticated models of choice and equilibrium but little understanding of the emergence of novelty. Where do new alternatives, new organizational forms, and new types of people come from? Combining biochemical insights about the origin of life with innovative and historically oriented social network analyses, John Padgett and Walter Powell develop a theory about the emergence of organizational, market, and biographical novelty from the coevolution of multiple social networks. In the short run, they argue, actors make relations, but in the long run, they argue, actors make actors. Organizational novelty arises from spillover across intertwined networks, which tips reproducing biographical and production flows. This theory is developed through formal deductive modeling and through a wide range of careful and original historical case studies, ranging from early capitalism and state formation, to the transformation of communism, to the emergence of contemporary biotechnology and Silicon Vally. -- from back cover.

The Generation, Recognition and Legitimation of Novelty
The Generation, Recognition and Legitimation of Novelty

Author: Gino Cattani

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2022-01-20

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1801179999

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Setting an agenda for a more holistic theory on the emergence, evaluation, and legitimation of novelty, this volume showcases how novelty emergence and novelty recognition correspond to two distinct phases of the journey of novelty, from the moment it is generated to the moment it takes root and propagates.

The Routledge Companion to Improvisation in Organizations
The Routledge Companion to Improvisation in Organizations

Author: Miguel Pina e Cunha

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-09-20

Total Pages: 537

ISBN-13: 1000933792

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This innovative volume provides a comprehensive overview of improvisation as a pervasive organizational process, essential in ever-changing business environments. Exploring theories of organizational action as well as contemporary challenges, it highlights improvisation’s rich potential in theory building and practice. The value and relevance of improvisational capabilities and processes in organizations are more apparent than ever: the global pandemic has forced organizations to reinvent themselves and to adapt to dramatic change on a massive scale. This surge in improvised activity starkly illustrates how the capability to improvise is key to organizational resilience: organizations that are able to improvise effectively are better prepared to bounce back and even thrive. From the latest thinking on improvisation in organizations to future avenues for research, this volume demonstrates the rich potential for both theory building and practice and provides a valuable resource for researchers and advanced students in organizational strategy, entrepreneurship, product development, information systems, disaster management, and HRM.

Radical Decision Making: Leading Strategic Change in Complex Organizations
Radical Decision Making: Leading Strategic Change in Complex Organizations

Author: D. Hruška

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-12-12

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1137492317

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Radical Decision Making offers a controversial new framework to the conventional strategic change management conversation. While many approaches provide a discussion on a singular level, Dr. Hruška blends theory and research of decision making and social interaction to develop a consistent framework of strategic change.

Research Handbook on Organizational Resilience
Research Handbook on Organizational Resilience

Author: Edward H. Powley

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2020-08-28

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1788112210

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This Research Handbook identifies how resilience has evolved as a critical theoretical concept in the organizational sciences. International resilience scholars conceptualize and explore the various ways resilience can be embedded in theory and practice, offering new and updated perspectives on the importance of resilience in multiple contexts.