Making Sense of Innovation in the Built Environment
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 addr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Milton :
Routledge,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1. What does innovation mean?; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Definitions of innovation; 1.3. Types of innovation; 1.4. Factor-based approaches to innovation; 1.5. Economic perspective on innovation; 1.6. Institutional perspective on innovation; 1.7. Processual perspective on innovation; 1.8. Why innovation continues to be important; Summary; References; 2. Labelling activities as innovations; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Weick's sensemaking framework; 2.3. Nature of sensemaking; 2.4. Sensemaking and project management
- 2.5. Sensemaking and innovation2.6. Critique and limitations of sensemaking; 2.7. Beyond sensemaking: Towards a theoretical framework for innovation; Summary; References; 3. Constructing identities and images as innovative; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Understanding an innovative organisation; 3.3. Organisational identity perspective; 3.4. Building an identity of an innovative project; 3.5. Constructing self-identities; Case vignette: Constructing identities of organisationsas sustainable innovative leaders; Summary; References; 4. The narrative turn in innovation studies; 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. The meaning of innovation through narratives4.3. Properties of innovation narratives; 4.4. Innovation as a narrative in the built environment; 4.5. Narrative interactions; Summary; References; 5. Innovation and storytelling; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Storytelling in organisation studies; 5.3. Stories, roles and self-identities; 5.4. Storytelling in innovation studies; 5.5. The role of storytelling in the innovation process: Towards a conceptual framework; Case vignette: A story shared by a CEO aboutthe construction of a building; Summary; References
- 6. The evolution of innovation narratives in the built environment6.1. Introduction; 6.2. Grand narrative: The need for innovation; 6.3. Owners and operators driving innovation; 6.4. Suppliers are innovating through projects; 6.5. Leading innovation in temporary organisations; 6.6. The paradoxes of innovation in the built environment; Case vignette: Capable innovative ownerstimulating innovation from suppliers; Summary; References; 7. Innovation leadership; 7.1. Introduction; 7.2. Innovation champions in organisation studies; 7.3. Innovation champions in the built environment
- 7.4. Innovation brokers7.5. Innovation culture; 7.6. Digital technologies as enablers to innovation; Case vignette: Innovation Hub at Heathrow; Summary; References; 8. Employees' motivation to contribute innovative ideas; 8.1. Introduction; 8.2. Employee and idea contribution process; 8.3. Individual and contextual characteristics influencing the idea contribution process; 8.4. Understanding radicality of innovative ideas; 8.5. Conceptualising radicality of innovative ideas; Summary; References; 9. Lived stories about innovation; 9.1. Introduction; 9.2. Multiple meanings of innovation