Innovation in technology and organization

By:

Clark, Peter

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London; Routledge; 1989Description: 242pISBN:

415004225

Subject(s):

Social Change

DDC classification:

303.484 CLA

Summary: Innovation has replaced efficiency as the dominant problematic for all types of organization. Yet, innovation has been the Achilles heel of the organization sciences. The problems of efficiency have dominated, and innovation has been treated as an infrequent, dramatic event. Orthodox organization design has neglected innovation in the product, the production process, the international market, corporate expertise and other areas in the search for simplistic empirical recipes. This book provides a comprehensive and coherent agenda and analysis of issues in the field of innovation in technology and organization. Addressing both the innovation-diffusion and the innovation-design perspective, this book assesses radical and incremental innovation as part of a total process. The book is of direct relevance to all those concerned to develop a policy-oriented theory and approach to strategic innovation and to situate innovation in its inter-organizational and temporal contexts. Peter Clark is Reader in Management and Principal Investigator in Innovation, Design and Operations Management at the Aston Business School, Birmingham. Neil Staunton is Research Fellow at the Work Organisation Research Centre at Aston Business School.

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Innovation has replaced efficiency as the dominant problematic for all types of organization. Yet, innovation has been the Achilles heel of the organization sciences. The problems of efficiency have dominated, and innovation has been treated as an infrequent, dramatic event. Orthodox organization design has neglected innovation in the product, the production process, the international market, corporate expertise and other areas in the search for simplistic empirical recipes.

This book provides a comprehensive and coherent agenda and analysis of issues in the field of innovation in technology and organization. Addressing both the innovation-diffusion and the innovation-design perspective, this book assesses radical and incremental innovation as part of a total process. The book is of direct relevance to all those concerned to develop a policy-oriented theory and approach to strategic innovation and to situate innovation in its inter-organizational and temporal contexts.

Peter Clark is Reader in Management and Principal Investigator in Innovation, Design and Operations Management at the Aston Business School, Birmingham. Neil Staunton is Research Fellow at the Work Organisation Research Centre at Aston Business School.

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