Innovation Management and Organizational Learning: a Discursive Approach

摘要：

This paper deals with how to design innovative organizat ions through theoretical and managerial insights. The theoretical framework is based on the structuration theory, with a focus on language and conversations within and across innovation projects. As a setting for the theoretical model, two case studies are presented and discussed: the first analyses an innovation projects structuration through conversations via e-mails. The second is an action research whose purpose is to design a project-oriented organization to improve the innovation capability of an industrial firm. These two field studies lead to a final appraisal of the relevance of a discursive approach to better understand innovation processes and their contribution to organizational learning.

关键词： innovation communities conversation organizational design organizat ional innovation

作者: Zhao Tianran

作者单位: School of Management, Wuhan University Technology, Wuhan, P.R.China, 430070

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 4th International Conference on Productinnovation Management(第四届产品创新管理国际会议)

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

页码: 1554-1559

在线出版日期: 2009-08-22（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）