This book offers a new understanding of innovation in the built
environment. The ways meaning of innovation is constructed has
important implications for policymakers, project managers,
academics and students. Through a longitudinal research study into
innovation in firms and projects, the book addresses some key
themes, challenges and concerns that practitioners face when
managing innovation in the built environment. It examines the key
drivers for innovation in the construction, engineering and
infrastructure firms and projects. In particular, the questions of
how and why innovation becomes recognised and sustained over time
are explored. Different theoretical perspectives are considered to
explain different aspects of innovation. This includes sensemaking,
organisational and individual identity, storytelling and narration.
The book has practical implications for how organisational
activities become labelled as 'innovation' and for what purpose. It
shares some lived stories of innovation as mobilised by practising
managers. The connectivity between the formal narratives of
innovation at the policy level and the lived narratives of
innovation articulated by practitioners is explored. Combining the
theory with practice, this book presents an insightful view on the
implications of innovation in the business world today.
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