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Challenging the Innovation Paradigm (Hardcover)
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Challenging the Innovation Paradigm (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations
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Innovation is almost always seen as a "good thing". Challenging the
Innovation Paradigm is a critical analysis of the innovation frenzy
and contemporary innovation research. The one-sided focus on
desirable effects of innovation misses many opportunities to reduce
the undesirable consequences. Authors in this book show how
systemic effects outside the innovating firms reduce the net
benefits of innovation for individual employees, customers, as well
as for society as a whole - also the innovators' own organizations.
This book analyzes the dominant discourses that construct and
reconstruct the assumptions and one-sidedness of contemporary
innovation research (generally known as the pro-innovation bias) by
focusing on consequences of innovation, distinguishing between
intended and unintended as well as desirable and undesirable
consequences. Contributors illustrate how both the discourses of
innovation and the consequences of innovation permeate all levels
of society: in policy discourse, in academic discourse, in research
funding, in national innovation systems, in the financial sector,
in organizational and work contexts, and in environmental
pollution. The volume offers a critical, multidisciplinary, and
multinational perspective on the topic, with authors from diverse
academic fields examining and making comparisons between a variety
of national contexts.
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