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- Bremer, Constantin, 1995, et al.
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Practicing Agility: Proposing an Agile Organization Design Manifesto
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The interest in business agility and agile organizations is high on CEOs’ agendas in response to rising degrees of uncertainty and change. In line with dominating management theories, agility is typically positioned as an organization’s capability to be flexible, and agile organizations are entities which successfully leverage this capability for managing turbulent environments. In this paper, we develop an alternative to this agility as capability paradigm, focusing instead on what it means to practice agility from the inside. We draw on Mary Parker Follett and the experiences of managers and employees in a case study of an organization “born agile”, designed according to the principles of the Agile Manifesto, to outline the agility as practice paradigm, which gives primacy to people and relationships rather than focusing on assets, methods and tools. Based on the tension-embracing agility as practice paradigm, we develop a Manifesto for Agile Organization Design and discuss implications for managers and employees navigating the agile organizational space. In essence, this manifesto requires all organizational members to adopt, embrace and enact a creative and experimental attitude that seeks to collaboratively find new ways forward, seeing tensions as opportunities for finding a new common ground, leadership as distributed, strategy and organization design as emergent and structures as flexible.
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- Berglund, Henrik, 1973, et al.
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CBIs studie om innovationsledning
- 2011
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- CBI har under andra halvåret 2010 och första halvåret 2011 genomfört en studie av innovationsledning hos 38 utvalda svenska företag inom tillverkning, IT och Telekom. Syftet var att undersöka hur företagen leder och organiserar innovation samt vilka utmaningar de står inför. Frågorna har besvarats av antingen VD eller en medlem i ledningsgruppen med insyn i företagets hantering av innovation.Resultatet visar att -de flesta företagen inte skiljer på radikal och inkrementell innovation-i många företag används ordet innovation för all produkt- och tjänsteutveckling-de flesta företag ser en ökning av innovationstakten inom sin respektive bransch-de flesta företag uttrycker att innovation är viktigt, samtidigt som få företag har innovationsfrågor bland sina tre största utmaningar-hälften av företagen använder någon form av rutin för att stärka sin förmåga att skapa nya produkter och tjänster, men endast ett fåtal använder flera olika rutiner-förstainnovationsföretagen (mindre, relativt nystartade företag) skiljer sig från de övriga i det att de är starkt innovationscentrerade-många företag välkomnar stöd från akademin, men endast ett fåtal önskar stöd att öka sin innovationsförmågaCBIs samtliga seniora forskare har genomfört intervjuerna.
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- Fredberg, Tobias, 1974, et al.
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Role Confusion in Open Innovation Intermediary Arenas
- 2011
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Ingår i: New Forms of Collaborative Innovation and Production on the Internet, eds. Wittke, V. & Hanekop, H.. - 9783863950200
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Intermediaries have become an increasingly important part of innovation collaborationarrangements such as open innovation. Much attention has been given tostructural arrangements for open innovation, but less interest has been given tohow people experience the participation in open innovation work. This chapter isbased on a longitudinal case study of SAFER, an open innovation intermediaryarena for research on traffic and vehicle safety. It investigates how participants inthis arena experience their situation as they spend time on things typically "outside"their tasks in their home organizations. The study provides insight into thetensions and confusion that the participants experience in their work, as they constantlyneed to renegotiate their positions both within their home organizations,and in the relation to the intermediary arena and the other organizations.
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- Rylander Eklund, Anna, 1972, et al.
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Towards a Follettian foundation for self-managing organizations: Learning to lead together through making together
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The interest in self-managing organizations has grown steadily in the past decade as indicated by the rising number of popular management books that explore ‘new ways of working’ based on ‘progressive’ or ‘liberated’ organizations like Semco, W.L. Gore, Buurtzorg and Zappos. A new field of research is emerging that examines these self-managing organizations as ‘a novel organizational form’ characterized by their ‘radical decentralization of authority’ (Lee and Edmondson, 2017), focusing on the structural characteristics that set these organizations apart from others. In this paper we propose an alternative perspective for exploring these organizations; based on the relational process philosophy of Mary Parker Follett and a review of the most influential practitioner-oriented books in the ‘new ways of working’ movement, we suggest that what unites these organizations is processual worldview and a profound belief in the capacity of all people to act intelligently and creatively given the right conditions. We argue that Follett’s conceptualization of group organizing and integrative attitude offers an appropriate foundation for developing a language to describe a processual, relational worldview that underpins a collaborative, participatory process of self-governance that could better support the exploration of the practices of organizations in the ‘new ways of working’ movement.
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