Jose Fonseca

Complexity and Innovation in Organizations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This key book takes a critical look at major perspectives on innovation, suggesting that innovation is not a designed functional activity of a firm or an intentional process through which firms anticipate changes in conditions.

Produktdetails

• Complexity and Emergence in Organizations
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 171mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 206g
• ISBN-13: 9780415250306
• ISBN-10: 0415250307
• Artikelnr.: 22333543

Autorenporträt

Jose Fonseca is Associate Professor of Management at the Universidade Lusiada in Lisbon, invited Professor at the MBA programme of the Universidade Nova and fellow of the Complexity and Management Centre at the University of Hertfordshire.

Inhaltsangabe

Series preface
1 Introduction
2 Mainstream thinking about innovation in organizations
3 The role of the individual in the process of innovation
4 The conversational nature of the innovation process
5 Innovation as complex responsive processes
6 Innovation and the reconfiguration of power relations
7 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index