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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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- Carlgren, Lisa, 1975, et al.
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Design thinking: Exploring values and effects from an innovation capability perspective
- 2014
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Ingår i: Design Journal. - 1460-6925. ; 17:3, s. 403-424
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The concept of Design Thinking (DT) is becoming widespread and is seen as improving firm innovativeness. However, studies of the potential value of DT are scarce in the areas of both design and innovation research. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding through investigating how companies that use DT in practice perceive the value it creates in their organizations. The paper builds on an interview study of large organizations in Germany and the US. We find that although some firms identified outcome-related values (such as new ideas, better products), many also underlined other benefits, more related to longer-term effects on competences, innovation processes and the mindset of company employees. We argue that for a company with a strategic intent to be more innovative, DT can be exploited in the development of long-term innovation capability through its contribution to the dimensions of resources, processes and mindset. We also propose the framework of innovation capability to discuss the values and effects of using DT.
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- Carlgren, Lisa, 1975, et al.
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Framing Design Thinking: The Concept in Idea and Enactment
- 2016
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Ingår i: Creativity and Innovation Management. - : Wiley. - 0963-1690 .- 1467-8691. ; 25:1, s. 38-57
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The concept of design thinking (DT) has emerged in management debates as promising innovation inspired by the way designers work. Despite the growing interest in DT, it is a difficult concept to study due to the lack of coherence between what DT ‘is’ in academic and practical terms. While there are numerous normative and often process-focused depictions ofDT, they seem limited in their ability to account for what occurs in practice. Given the discussion of DT as a concept, and emerging discussion of its enactment, a framing is needed that acknowledges both aspects. This paper proposes a framing of DT that makes it researchable in both theory and practice, and discusses commonalities and discrepancies in how the concept is usually portrayed in the literature. The paper builds on an empirical interview study in six large organizations, which led to the development of a framework structure and the identification of five themes characterizing DT: User focus, Problem framing, Visualization, Experimentation and Diversity. Each theme is associated with specific principles/mindsets, practices and techniques. The main contribution of this paper is to propose a framework that includesDT both as an idea and as the enactment of the idea, inspired by the works of Latour.
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- Carlgren, Lisa, 1975, et al.
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Implementing design thinking – an exploratory study of large companies using design thinking in innovation efforts
- 2011
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 2011 Tsinghua-DMI Inter- national Design Management Symposium HK in Hong Kong, 2011..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Despite the recent hype, the concept of design thinking still lacks a shared definition and practitioners are struggling to understand how it can be applied in their operations. Design thinking is often described as a method to create new value and innovation. So far, this argument mainly builds on a number of early success cases put forward by practitioners and design consultancies such as IDEO, but from an academic perspective there is still little empirical evidence that design thinking actually leads to innovation. This exploratory paper aims at empirically investigating current practices of implementing and using design thinking in innovation efforts in large companies. More specifically, it addresses how large companies that explicitly have tried to implement it perceive design thinking, the value it creates, and challenges linked to implementation. The paper builds on an interview study conducted in Germany and the US, with large firms that have chosen to apply design thinking in their innovation efforts. Preliminary findings from the study indicate that companies perceive design thinking in a variety of ways. Some benefits were identified such as a change in mindset, improved collaboration, a strong relation to users and iterative prototyping. A number of challenges were also put forward, mainly linked to the integration with existing processes, but also connected to the difficulties connected to the confusion around the concept itself.
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- Carlgren, Lisa, 1975, et al.
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Implementing Design Thinking in Large Organizations
- 2012
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the IPDM Conference 2012, Manchaster..
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- esign thinking (DT) has been promoted as a user-centered approach to innovation, suggesting that any firm could learn from the way designers think and work. Although the concept has gained substantial interest among practitioners, there is little coherence around the concept in theory, and empirical studies of DT in organizational settings are very scarce. This paper reports the findings from an exploratory study of the use of DT in large organizations, including product, software, service and healthcare firms. Based on interviews with key informants this paper describes a variety of views on how DT was perceived, used, integrated into existing processes, and who the “design thinkers” are. Implications are drawn for researchers as well as managers interested in implementing DT in their organizations. Especially the difficulties to articulate the meaning of DT seem to have implications for theory and practice.
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- Carlgren, Lisa, 1975, et al.
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Perceptions of the value of Design Thinking in innovation in large firms
- 2013
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Ingår i: EAD Conference 2013, Göteborg.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recently, Design Thinking (DT) has become a widespread concept, heavily promoted for improving a firm’s innovativeness. Yet, our understanding regarding the potential value of DT is still limited, in both design and innovation research. The purpose of this paper is therefore to investigate how companies that are using DT in practice perceive the value and the effects it creates in their organizations. The paper builds on a study of large organizations in Germany and the US, including 51 semi-structured interviews in 6 large firms. Early findings indicate that although many firms pointed at the expected outcome-related values (such as new ideas, better products), some also underlined other benefits, more related to effects on the innovation process, collaboration practices and company culture. It is thus argued that in addition to known short-term benefits, DT may also contribute to the strengthening of the long-term innovativeness of firms.
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- Carlgren, Lisa, 1975, et al.
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The Challenges of Using Design Thinking in Industry - Experiences from Five Large Firms
- 2016
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Ingår i: Creativity and Innovation Management. - : Wiley. - 0963-1690 .- 1467-8691. ; 25:3, s. 344-362
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Design Thinking (DT) is advocated as a user-centred approach to innovation, based on the way designers think and work. Despite being increasingly promoted as an approach to innovation, there is still little evidence of successful impact. Rather, indications suggest that firms find implementation challenging. The purpose of this paper is to analyse challenges of using DT in light of literature on innovation barriers, in order to discuss whether there is something unique about DT as a concept that makes it particularly challenging to use. The paper is based on an interview study of five large firms that all have at least five years of experience of using DT. The analysis shows that several of the perceived challenges can be linked to known barriers to innovation. However, other challenges have not previously been described in the innovation literature, and the paper suggests that there are some unique aspects of DT that makes it particularly challenging for firms to integrate it in innovation work. These are related to its core themes: user focus, problem framing, experimentation, visualization and diversity. Additionally, the paper contributes with an empirically based categorization of challenges that managers will find useful if they want to implement design thinking in their organizations.
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- Adler, N, et al.
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The Challenge of Managing Boundary-Spanning Research Activities: Experiences from the Swedish Context: The challenge of managing boundary spanning research
- 2009
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Ingår i: Research Policy. - : Elsevier BV. - 0048-7333. ; 38:7, s. 1136-1149
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Contemporary and future challenges when managing research involve coping with emerging prerequisites which include, among other things, a new knowledge production discourse, new research funding methods and new ways for international collaboration. Managers for boundary-spanning research activities need to combine the sometimes opposing logics and perspectives of the multiple stakeholders-the individual researchers searching for independence, sustainability and freedom and others searching for integration, relevance and predictability. Based on a collaborative research set-up including interviews, discussions and workshops with major Swedish research funding agencies, research program managers, experienced industry partners and key stakeholders, the paper identifies six main managerial challenges: (i) lack of focus on research management and unsatisfying prerequisites, (ii) weak identity and low status of the role of the research managers, (iii) few incentives for research management, (iv) lack of leadership development opportunities for researchers, (v) multiple (and sometimes contradictory) expectations from different stakeholders, and (vi) sustained funding. Finally, the managerial implications of these challenges for universities and funding agencies are discussed.
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- Bremer, Constantin, 1995, et al.
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Agile Organizations: Challenges and Tensions from the Employee Perspective
- 2021
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 22nd International CINet Conference. - 9789077360248 ; , s. 94-103
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Amidst increasingly dynamic and complex environments, new organizational forms deviating from the traditional managerial hierarchy and its underlying principles have emerged. Meanwhile, the agile movement has taken organizations of all types and sizes by storm. What started as a methodology for managing software development projects in a more pragmatic and human-centered way grew into a philosophy shaping the design of entire organizations, and further research on agile organizations is being called for. Viewed through the lens of self-managing organizations, we investigate agile organizations from the dynamic and social perspective of organizing. Drawing on interviews conducted with employees of a Swedish software company, we identify the tension of freedom–clarity as dominant and portray the related challenges employees experience as they navigate the agile organization. We also pinpoint inclusion, proactivity and trust as values agile organizations seem to be built upon, much in line with the thinking of the Agile Manifesto. Finally, we call for further research on new organizational forms from the organizing perspective and offer a refined framework to better reflect the dynamic, intertwined and inherently social nature of the challenges to be experienced within these organizational forms.
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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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- Börjesson, Sofia, 1964, et al.
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Developing Innovation Capabilities: A Longitudinal Study of a Project at Volvo Cars
- 2011
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Ingår i: Creativity and Innovation Management. - : Wiley. - 0963-1690 .- 1467-8691. ; 20:3, s. 171-184
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Many large firms are struggling to alter and develop their organizational capabilities. There are several discussions in the literature on what these capabilities comprise, and that there is a need to develop them. However, less attention has been paid to how companies can develop these capabilities in practice. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to organizational capability theory by providing insights derived from an empirical study of how organizational capabilities for innovation are developed in large firms, and how these findings compare to the theory. The paper is based on a longitudinal study of Volvo Cars conducted as a long-term collaborative research project. The authors were involved in a project called Vision 2020, which extended over a period of two and a half years, the findings from which highlight several activities that enabled the changes required for the development of organizational capabilities. The need to develop 'management capability' in terms of both cognition and the propensity to act is especially highlighted.
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- Börjesson, Sofia, 1964, et al.
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The challenges of innovation capability building: Learning from longitudinal studies of innovation efforts at Renault and Volvo Cars
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of Engineering and Technology Management - JET-M. - : Elsevier BV. - 1608-4799 .- 0923-4748. ; 31:1, s. 120-140
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- This paper describes two initiatives to develop the capabilities for innovation in two automotive firms, focusing on the efforts of individuals in their two missions: to manage an innovation portfolio and to systematically build capabilities for innovation. The research is based on longitudinal studies of two European car manufacturers and makes several contributions. First, it contributes to innovation capability theory by addressing the efforts undertaken by managers to develop the capabilities for innovation, underlining the need for political astuteness and a learning perspective. Second, it shows the challenges involved in large mature firms and the need for explicit management support.
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- Elmquist, Maria, 1975, et al.
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Beyond intermediation: The open innovation arena as an actor enabling joint knowledge creation
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Journal of Technology Management. - 0267-5730 .- 1741-5276. ; 72:4, s. 273-295
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The open innovation paradigm has created opportunities for the emergence of new actors to provide support for open innovation. It is acknowledged that knowledge creation is pivotal to innovation, but this has yet to be discussed in the context of open innovation intermediation. This paper based on a longitudinal study of SAFER, a traffic and vehicle safety research centre in Sweden, explores the role of an actor whose objective is to support joint knowledge creation in open innovation. Theoretical models of knowledge creation are used in the analysis and the identified activities go beyond intermediation, and include peer collaboration and mobilisation of a collective strategic body. These activities are fundamental to an open innovation arena - here introduced as a new type of actor. The paper challenges the established focal firm perspective in open innovation and introduces the open innovation arena to underline knowledge creation among peers.
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- Elmquist, Maria, 1975, et al.
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Exploring the field of open innovation
- 2009
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Ingår i: European Journal of Innovation Management. - 1460-1060. ; 12:3, s. 326-345
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- Elmquist, Maria, 1975, et al.
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Leveraging on open innovation: A study of why organizations engage in open innovation collaboration
- 2013
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Ingår i: NFF conference in Iceland, August 2013.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The open innovation paradigm suggests that innovations do not necessarily originate from the organizations that commercialize them. Accordingly, organizations seek to find ways to obtain, integrate and commercialize knowledge from external sources. One way of engaging in open innovation is to be involved in open innovation arenas, where many organizations collaborate. So far, little empirical research has been done on why firms engage in such open innovation activities, beyond the obvious reason to access assets. Could there also be other motives? This paper investigates why organizations engage in open innovation collaboration. The setting is an open innovation arena involving 22 partner organizations collaboratively innovating in automotive safety. Data from interviews with each partner is the basis for the analysis. The results reveal many reasons for participating in the collaboration. Three main categories were discerned: business reasons (e.g. to improve image and recruit knowledgeable people), research reasons (e.g. to obtain better position within the area and access a broader knowledge base) and collective reasons (e.g. to form a joint agenda and to have a collective voice needed for making a difference). An important consequence of the different motives is that they constitute the basis for evaluating the performance of the collaboration. Where other studies primarily have assumed that firms collaborate to gain financial rewards or to increase the innovative capacity, this study suggests that also other performance criteria are important. As an effect the potential effectiveness of the collaboration is multifaceted and must be evaluated as such. The paper concludes that the expectations that organizations bring to open innovation collaboration vary to a large extent and that the desire to access external assets is one of several motives. Understanding that motives may also be commercial or collective is of utmost importance since such expectations will guide the actions, priorities and choices of each organization. Failing to recognize this may lead to collaborative inertia and thus puts the quality of the collaboration at risk.
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- Elmquist, Maria, 1975, et al.
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Open Innovation - Forschung in Europa
- 2009
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Ingår i: IP Manager - Journal for the Knowledge Economy. - 1868-8985. ; 2009:3, s. 50-51
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Open Innovation hat im Bereich der Innovationsforschung an Dynamik gewonnen. Obgleich es für sie viele Definitionen gibt, ist ihr Kernelement klar: Open Innovation ist die Öffnungdes Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprozesses für externe Akteure zur Steigerung des Unternehmenswertes.
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- Elmquist, Maria, 1975, et al.
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The value of a failed R&D project: emerging evaluation criteria for innovation projects
- 2009
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Ingår i: R and D Management. - : Wiley. - 0033-6807 .- 1467-9310. ; 39:2, s. 139-152
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In literature and R&D organizations alike, project success consists in minimizing the deviations from set targets in terms of quality, cost and time. The main management task is to execute and monitor progress to reduce risks - assuming that project attributes are known, necessary resources can be estimated and a reasonable time table can be agreed upon. In such a context, evaluating project success is easy. However, in an innovative context, setting project targets initially is difficult and the contributions of the projects sometimes are of an unexpected nature. This paper investigates if projects can be evaluated in terms of how they contribute to the building of innovative capabilities of the firm instead of independently. Based on a case study at the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisians and the theoretical framework of innovation fields, a framework for evaluating projects from an additional perspective is proposed. Based on the following four criteria: financial resources, the development of a structured, refined and expanded strategic vision, developed competences (with related suppliers) and identification of knowledge gaps (occasionally with related partners for knowledge production), this framework shows how seemingly failed R&D projects can instead be considered as invaluable to the overall innovation process.
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- Elmquist, Maria, 1975, et al.
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Triangulating relations to explore openness of innovation
- 2009
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Ingår i: Academy of Management Conference, Chicago, August 2009.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In a longitudinal study of an open innovation arena, we study how the leadership practices come to focus on managing relations rather than processes in innovative work. The arena, which is called SAFER, engages world leading companies in automotive safety to jointly develop both innovations and methods to improve the competitiveness of its constituents, who are often each other’s most fierce competitors. The set up allows us to explore how the innovation collaboration develops from several of the collaborating parties’ viewpoints. We aim at develop a multifaceted understanding of how open innovation practices are managed on three leadership levels, from the perspective of the arena itself, as an intermediary in the process, and from the perspectives of the collaborating parties.Exploring openness of innovation by triangulating relations is…blurry. Patterns develop over time, and there is no chance that a snapshot gives you the whole picture.
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- Elmquist, Maria, 1975
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Vehicles for innovation and learning: The case of a neglected concept car project
- 2007
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Ingår i: Knowledge and Process Management. - : Wiley. - 1092-4604 .- 1099-1441. ; 14:1, s. 1-14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the competitive automotive industry product development processes are increasingly structured, leaving little room for learning and hence developing the knowledge needed for creating the innovative new products that are essential in order for automotive companies to remain competitive in the long run. Previous studies underline the importance of explicitly managing innovation and knowledge creation in order to successfully develop innovative products. It is our contention that the concept car constitutes an important arena for learning and creating useful knowledge in the automotive industry. This paper presents a detailed analysis of a concept car project at Volvo Cars (the YCC project), tracing how it was used from a learning perspective. Based on this longitudinal study, this paper argues that there is a need to manage more explicitly the learning opportunities provided by concept car projects in order to leverage on the knowledge created. It also discusses some of the barriers to learning that are illustrated by the case study. Finally the paper suggests further research directed towards innovative activities, such as concept cars in order to better understand the nature of their interface with established NPD processes. © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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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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- 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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- Ollila, Susanne, 1968, et al.
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Managing Open Innovation: Exploring Challenges at the Interfaces of an Open Innovation Arena
- 2011
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Ingår i: Creativity and Innovation Management. - : Wiley. - 0963-1690 .- 1467-8691. ; 20:4, s. 273-283
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Collaborating with peers to gain access to knowledge is an attractive alternative for organizations keen to improve their innovativeness, and the rising popularity of open innovation has resulted in the emergence of new actors in the innovation process. Previous research focuses mainly on the firms that collaborate with these actors. This paper adopts the perspective of an open innovation actor and the managerial challenges involved. It is based on a case study of SAFER, a Swedish traffic and vehicle safety research unit with 22 collaborating partners. The unit, which is here called an open innovation arena, differs from an intermediary in that it both enables open innovation within a specific field of expertise and envisages itself as a key player in that same field. The case study reveals three types of challenges for the management of an open innovation arena: challenges that arise at the interface with partner organizations, challenges related to collaboration between the partners, and challenges related to the arena itself.
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- Pohl, Hans M, 1966, et al.
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Radical innovation in a small firm – a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) development project at Volvo Cars
- 2010
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Ingår i: R and D Management. - : Wiley. - 0033-6807 .- 1467-9310. ; 40:4, s. 372-382
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The potential paradigmatic shift in technology from the internal combustion engine to electric propulsion via hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) has been addressed by most automakers, and has produced very different outcomes. This paper uses the framework of core capabilities to discuss how the small automaker, Volvo Cars, made substantial progress in its HEV development using an approach based on limited resources and a low risk. A comparison with Toyota's successful but very resource-demanding Prius project reveals some factors contributing towards rapid development in a context of limited resources, including focused project objectives, tight collaboration with suppliers of the new technologies, reuse of existing technologies and an unaggressive, bottom-up approach to change the firm's values and norms and other core capability dimensions. This paper provides an empirical illustration of how a small company in a mature industry worked with radical innovation in a development project drawing on the combination of organizational slack, entrepreneurial employees and an extensive use of external (knowledge) suppliers.
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