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- Remneland Wikhamn, Björn, 1973, et al.
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Open Innovation Groundwork
- 2020
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Ingår i: International Journal of Innovation Management. - 1363-9196. ; 24:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although the concept of open innovation has gained much attention in the field of innovation management, few studies have so far theorized how such initiatives are being enacted in practice. This study is based on an inductive empirical analysis of how AstraZeneca, a large biopharmaceutical corporation, implemented an open innovation initiative called BioVentureHub. In the paper we introduce a theoretical model of open innovation enactment based on four interrelated processes. Three of these processes - conceptualization, mobilization, and operationalization - include activities related to preparing for open innovation, what we call open innovation groundwork. The fourth process - facilitation - involves translating the groundwork into actual open innovation. The study contributes to the broader open innovation domain by its detailed account and theorizing of how open innovation is established in practice. Our methodological approach complements the previous research on open innovation that mostly are based on retrospective accounts or are conceptual in nature. Moreover, the study contributes by illustrating a novel initiative from the life science industry, where open innovation is frequently discussed but where still only a few empirical examples are found in academic literature
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- Styhre, Alexander, 1971, et al.
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The ambiguities of money-making: Indie video game developers and the norm of creative integrity
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Ingår i: Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal. - 1746-5656 .- 1746-5648. ; 15:3, s. 215-234
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: Indie developers are part of the creative fringe of the video game industry, fashioning an identity for themselves as a community committed to the development of video games as a cultural expression and art form. In playing this role, money-making is ambiguous inasmuch as economic return is honorable if such interests remain unarticulated and execute minimal influence on the development work process, while the possibility of producing a successful commercial video game is simultaneously one of the primary motivations for new industry entrants. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach: The paper reports on the empirical material drawn from a study of indie video game developers in Sweden, a leading country for video game development. Findings: To reconcile tensions between video game development in terms of being both cultural/and artistic production and business activity, easily compromising the perceived authenticity of the subject in the eyes of audiences (e.g. hardcore gamers), indie developers distinguish between monetary motives ex ante and compensation ex post the release of the game. Indie developers thus emphasize the metonymic function of money as this not only indicates economic value and currency but also denotes a number of business practices that indie developers have otherwise avoided in their career planning as they believe these practices would restrain their creativity and skills. Originality/value: The study contributes to the scholarship on video game development, the literature on creative industries, and the economic sociology literature examining the social meaning of money and how social norms and values are manifested in professional ideologies and practices. © 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited.
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- Styhre, Alexander, 1971
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Thinly and Thickly Capitalized Projects: Theorizing the Role of the Finance Markets and Capital Supply in Project Management Studies
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Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : SAGE Publications. - 8756-9728 .- 1938-9507. ; 51:4, s. 378-388
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the contemporary economy, finance industry interests and finance theory propositions increasingly determine investment behavior. Project management scholars access conceptual frameworks and methods that shed light on day-to-day project management practices, but such practices are themselves shaped by the supply and cost of finance capital. Consequently, project management scholarship would benefit from a closer look at finance industry practices to better understand how, for example, calculations and risk assessments matter for day-to-day project management practices. In order to theorize the project organization form, finance theory and its key concepts of risk and uncertainty need to be recognized and subject to scholarly inquiry. This article presents two cases of project work, wherein the former (life science ventures) is thinly capitalized on the basis of uncertainty in the development activities, whereas the latter case (housing production) is thickly capitalized, which indicates that subsidies, insurances, and exemptions increase investment appetite. In either case, economic and social welfare are not maximized, which calls for project management scholars to recognize the role of finance industry practices when allocating finance capital to various projects.
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- Walter, Lars, et al.
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Nursing, bedside care, and the organization of expert knowledge : Professional work as agencement
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Management. - : Elsevier BV. - 0956-5221 .- 1873-3387. ; 36:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Professional work such as nursing has traditionally been examined as being localized in the individual’s body where professional know-how and skills are residing in the cognitive faculties and in embodied action. Contrary to such a view, the concept of agencement, recently used in the social study of finance, underlines that agency is in the contemporary technoscientifically determined times of necessity distributed and includes a variety of tempospatially distributed resources. Reporting a study nursing work in a leukemia ward in a Swedish regional hospital, it is demonstrated that the conventional view of nursing as primarily being bedside care is only accommodating a subset of the totality of the nurses’ work. In addition to face-to-face care and patient interaction, nursing work is the mobilization of a great number of actors with different domains of expertise to safeguard the health care status of the patient. Speaking of nursing work as agencement is opening up for alternative and more accurate understandings of nursing work in an increasingly technologically determined health care system. © 2020
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