Understanding Novelty in Organizations [electronic resource] : A Research Path Across Agency and Consequences /
Frigotto, Maria Laura.author.
Providing a first tentative understanding of novelty and a set of implications for organizations to manage it, this book focuses on the potential offered by emergent novelty, namely novelty which is neither designed nor pursued. The author asks how organizations might increase their abilities and strategies to benefit from its early recognition. Such potential is broken down into positive terms and demonstrates how early recognition is beneficial both to organizations which aim to seize emergent innovations as well as those which aim to avoid emergent disasters. Understanding Novelty in Organizations aims to rethink the structure and strategies of organizations to gain a new balance between design and randomness in the generation of novelty. The varied perspectives presented in this work will engage scholars interested in novelty, innovation and creativity, and emergency management.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
1. Introduction -- Part I. Novelty from the Background to the Spotlight -- 2. Novelty in Evolution -- 3. Novelty in Organization Studies -- Part II. A Framework for Novelty -- 4. Novelty Across Consequences and Control -- 5. Black Novelties and the Early Recognition of Emergence -- 6. White Novelties and their Capture -- Part III. A Primer -- 7. A Working Definition and Tentative Models -- 8. Management Strategies and Organizational Implications.
Providing a first tentative understanding of novelty and a set of implications for organizations to manage it, this book focuses on the potential offered by emergent novelty, namely novelty which is neither designed nor pursued. The author asks how organizations might increase their abilities and strategies to benefit from its early recognition. Such potential is broken down into positive terms and demonstrates how early recognition is beneficial both to organizations which aim to seize emergent innovations as well as those which aim to avoid emergent disasters. Understanding Novelty in Organizations aims to rethink the structure and strategies of organizations to gain a new balance between design and randomness in the generation of novelty. The varied perspectives presented in this work will engage scholars interested in novelty, innovation and creativity, and emergency management.
Organization.
Planning.
Leadership.
Knowledge management.
Management.
Industrial management.
Project management.
Organization.
Business Strategy/Leadership.
Knowledge Management.
Innovation/Technology Management.
Project Management.