INTRODUCTION Innovation in large organizations can emerge from many sources; the
challenge is often not so much the generation of ideas but the ability to cultivate and evolve …

Another person who has been a great source of inspiration is Barbara Czarniawska. Thank
you for your insightful comments on my draft manuscript and for your willingness to …

Over the past few decades, the literature on innovation management has focused on
explaining how to be innovative in one's own organization. Even though there is a variety of …

The present paper introduces a view of how ideas develop in organizations that goes
beyond the traditional focus on either individual or structural conditions for creativity and …

The ability to perform innovation is dependent upon the way in which the relevant actors are
organized. This becomes of particular importance when emphasis is on experience-based …

This paper explores the social dimension of innovation and discusses alternative
approaches to deal with paradox and conflict across what is typically called knowledge …

This thesis contributes to the understanding of how to create organizational change and
innovation in companies of the Norwegian Architects, Engineering and Construction (AEC) …

The perspective in this chapter is that continual change of an organization is the normal
situation. This perspective also frames the theory of science arguments for understanding …

The aim of this article is to analyse how innovation policy is staged and legitimised through
the dramatised social process of an event. The context is taken from an annual event, Skåne …

This article explores the practical implementation of two innovative projects in Denmark and
Sweden. The research is motivated by the high political interest in innovations as a modern …