Format:
1 online resource (287 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415522755
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9780203120972
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations Series
Content:
The book goes behind the innovation frenzy characterizing society today. It brings attention to the commercial waste, policy ineffectiveness and human suffering caused by the way corporations have executed and policy makers have regulated innovation. It emphasizes the unexploited opportunities of approaches that consider also long term and undesirable consequences of innovation
Note:
Cover -- Challenging the Innovation Paradigm -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Series Editor Introduction -- Preface -- 1. Challenging the Innovation Paradigm:The Prevailing Pro-Innovation Bias -- Part I Problematizing Innovation -- 2. On the Limits of What Can Be Said about 'Innovation': Interplay and Contrasts Between Academic and Policy Discourses -- 3. καινοτομία: An Old Word for a New World, or the De-Contestation of a Political and Contested Concept -- 4. The Unintended and Undesirable Consequences: Neglected by Innovation Research -- Part II Understanding the Systemic Nature of Innovation -- 5. Accelerating the Innovation Race: Do We Need Reflexive Brakes? -- 6. Innovation and the Global Financial Crisis: Systemic Consequences of Incompetence -- 7. Weak Signals for Opting Out of the Innovation Race -- Part III Exploring Unintended Consequences of Innovation -- 8. Do Major Innovation Models Consider Unintended Consequences? A Review and Revised Framework -- 9. From Autonomous Craftsmen to Compliant Resources: Implications for Undesirable Consequences of Innovation -- 10. Organizational Innovations: An Exploratory Study of Negative Effects -- 11. Information and Communication Technology as an Exporter of CO2 Emissions -- 12. Challenging the Innovation Paradigm: Conclusions, Practical Implications, and Future Research -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Sveiby, Karl-Erik Challenging the Innovation Paradigm Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9780415522755
Language:
English
Keywords:
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