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Corporate Research Laboratories and the History of Innovation (Hardcover)
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Corporate Research Laboratories and the History of Innovation (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
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With the beginning of the twentieth century, American corporations
in the chemical and electrical industries began establishing
industrial research laboratories. Some went on to become
world-famous not only for their scientific and technological
breakthroughs but also for the new union of science and industry
they represented. Innovative ideas do not simply appear out of the
blue and spread on their own merit. Rather, the laboratory's
diffusion takes place in a cultural context that goes beyond
corporate capital and technological change. Using discourse
analysis as a method to comprehensively capture the organizational
field of the early American R&D laboratories from 1870 to 1930,
this book uncovers the collective meanings associated with the
industrial laboratory. Meanings such as what and where a laboratory
is supposed to be, who the scientist is, and what it means to
practice science provided cultural resources that made the transfer
of the laboratory from academic science into an industrial setting
possible by rendering such meanings understandable and operable to
big business and organizational entrepreneurs fighting for hegemony
in a rapidly evolving market. It analyzes not only the corporations
that established laboratories in the United States but also their
contexts - economic, political, and especially scientific - showing
how "the industrial laboratory" was transformed from an
organizational novelty into an expected institution in less than
two decades. This book will be of interest to researchers,
academics, historians, and students in the fields of organizational
change, discourse studies, the management of technology and
innovation, as well as business and management history.
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