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- Lindhult, Erik, et al.
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Innovation capabilities and challenges for energy smart development in medium sized European cities
- 2016
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Ingår i: Energy Procedia. - : Elsevier BV. - 1876-6102. ; :88, s. 205-211
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Transition towards becoming Energy smart city integrating different areas of energy production, distribution and use in a community requires a spectrum of capabilities. The paper reports on findings from the EU planning project PLEEC, involving six medium sized European cities. The purpose of the paper is to describe innovation capabilities and challenges in the complex, systemic innovation journey of cities in the transition to sustainability. A case of implementing an innovative project for electrical vehicles in Eskilstuna is presented illustrating both technological potentials and innovation challenges.
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- Björkman, Hans, et al.
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Angels and demons – The religion of Innovation?
- 2013
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Ingår i: The Proceedings of The XXIV ISPIM Conference - Innovating in Global Markets. - : ISPIM. - 9789522654212
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- History anticipates a link between religion and innovation, and religious aspects could be expected to impact also current innovation activities, positive or negative. This paper describes and discusses the relations between innovation and religion by means of a systematic literature review. The review points to six different causal claims between religion and innovation: (i) the Church as a platform for innovation and entrepreneurship; (ii) religion enabling or inhibiting innovation adaptation and diffusion; (iii) spirituality and ethics, and their relation to innovation, organisational development and human relation management; (iv) creation and utilisation of innovations in religious settings; (v) doctrinal innovation; and (vi) religion as scientific underpinning. This evokes an initiative for further studies on religion and innovation, and contributes to current understanding through providing a first-of-its kind literature review.
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- Bogren, Maria
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EN UTOPISK IDÉ? : Medverkan på (o)lika villkor i utvecklingspartnerskap
- 2010
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A utopian idea? Participation Under (Dis)Similar Conditions inDevelopment PartnershipsMaria Bogren Department of Social SciencesMid Sweden University, SE-831 25 Östersund, SwedenISSN 1652-8948, Mid Sweden University Licentiate Thesis 53;ISBN 978-91-86694-12-8 AbstractImportant societal issues nowadays do not get resolved through the care of the state; it is rather the case that solutions involve multiple actors. Such cooperation can be organized in partnership where actors from the public sector, private companies and non-profit organizations, for example, attempt to find solutions to a current societal issue. The target group affected by the problems can also be involved in the partnership. The aim of this study is to contribute to an increased understanding regarding cooperation in partnerships and especially the target group’s participation in partnerships. An idea regarding the target group’s participation stems from the European level to the national level and finally to the local level in a development partnership. I follow the local development partner-ship for two years with a view to examining the translation process of the idea regarding the target group’s participation. Data was collected through interviews, relevant documents and observation. What is more, the significance of the institutional surroundings regarding what happens in the partnership is discussed. The idea regarding the target group’s participation manifests itself on: a) how the target group should be represented; b) how it gains influence and c) how the role of the target group’s representatives should be shaped. The study shows that ideas change and adjust over time and also that the target group participates under different conditions compared to the rest of the representatives in the partnership. A way to strengthen the target group’s participation in the partnership can be through further organizing, thus increasing the legitimization level of the target group. Keywords: translation, target group, participation, public-private partnershipsSAMMANFATTNING Angelägna samhällsproblem får numera inte alltid sin lösning genom statens försorg utan istället involveras flera aktörer. Ett sådant samarbete kan organiseras i partnerskap där aktörer från exempelvis offentlig sektor, företag och ideella organisationer tillsammans försöker hitta lösningar på något aktuellt samhällsproblem. I partnerskapet kan även den målgrupp som berörs av problematiken involveras. Syftet med denna studie är att bidra till ökad förståelse när det gäller samverkan i partnerskap och speciellt när det gäller målgruppens medverkan i partnerskap. En idé om målgruppens medverkan följs från europeisk nivå, till nationell nivå och slutligen till lokal nivå i ett utvecklingspartnerskap. Jag följer det lokala utvecklingspartnerskapet under två års tid och använder dokumentstudier, intervjuer och observationer för att studera översättningsprocessen av idén om målgruppens medverkan. Dessutom diskuteras den institutionella omgivningens betydelse för det som händer i partnerskapet. Idén om målgruppens medverkan tar sig uttryck i idéer om hur målgruppen ska finnas representerad och hur den ska få inflytande samt hur rollen som målgruppsrepresentant ska utformas. Studien visar att idéerna förändras och anpassas över tid samt att målgruppen medverkar på olika villkor jämfört med övriga representanter i partnerskapet. Ett sätt att stärka målgruppens medverkan i partnerskapet kan vara genom ytterligare organisering för att på så sätt ge ökad legitimitet för målgruppen. Nyckelord: översättning, målgrupp, medverkan, privatoffentliga partnerskap
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- Florin, Ulrika, et al.
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Norms and Ethics : Prerequisites for Excellence in Co-production
- 2015
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Ingår i: Högskola och Samhälle i Samverkan HSS´15.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Knowledge production is increasingly made in broader Mode 2 (Gibbons, 1994) network of stakeholders and contributing actors, e.g. in the form of participatory, interactive and action research. Historically this has always been an important part of scientific and academic activity, particularly important in certain scientific fields of research, e.g. engineering, business administration, organization and working life research, pedagogics and social work studies, as well in methodological traditions like action research and participatory research (Reason & Bradbury, 2008). When roles in knowledge production are more interconnected traditional research ethics focused on ethical treatments of research objects when they also are subjects (e.g. information, consent, and confidentiality) need to be significantly supplemented. When knowledge is seen as co-produced in interaction between equal parties with different contribution to the process and knowledge interest, this creates the need for recognition and guidance of special norms and ethical codes as prerequisites for excellent practice. This paper is aiming to explore and discuss norms of excellence and ethical concerns in co-production between academia and enterprises and how collaboration could be organized to increase both validity and utility of the knowledge created in such settings. All parties in such collaborative setting have the responsibility to generate practical agreements as to form the ground for a beneficial co-production, however this includes rules for securing non-violation of rights, like confidentiality and intellectual property. The parties share responsibility in review and control of quality of processes and results in relation to these agreements, although it differs in what matters considered important to address in academic traditions and enterprises cultures. The purpose of this paper is to develop an extended set of norms and ethical principles for co-production oriented research. The main focus is relational dimension between involved parties instead of how one party (the researcher) treats other affected parties. We have therefore developed a list of norms with clarification and argument as basis for their use. Examples are: acknowledgement and respect should be given to different forms of knowledge, theoretical and practical, explicit and formal as well as implicit and tacit; care should be taken to provide space for expression of different perspectives of involved parties in order to secure validation and useful results, open discussion on equal terms; democratic dialogue, is a core medium for good co-productive relations, different knowledge needs and interests of involved and concerned parties, practical as well as scientific; to the co-production should be considered in the aims and procedures, and that the parties have a mutual responsibility to develop sufficient understanding of the needs and interests of others. The proposed norms developed in this paper can be considered as a tool or a guideline for the development of ethical and excellence co-produced research.
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- Grahn, Sten, et al.
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Barriers to Value Specification when Carrying out Digitalization Projects
- 2021
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Ingår i: Technology Innovation Management Review. - : CARLETON UNIV GRAPHIC SERVICES. - 1927-0321. ; 11:5, s. 54-64
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- If digitalization projects aim to effectively create value for a company, one precondition is having a shared view among company staff and project members of what the "desirable" value is. However, it has been shown that few companies fully understand the value that digitalization projects can create for them, while many companies still launch digitalization projects without this understanding. This contributes to the current "alarmingly" low success rate for digitalization projects. Development of effective methods to specify the desired values of digitalization projects is thus important. One step in developing improved specification methods is to ask what the possible barriers are to improving current value specification practices. The purpose of the current study is to address this. We analyzed several digitalization projects regarding how specifications of desired project value were carried out, finding that very limited resources are spent on specifying desired values in digitalization projects, and that this limits project success. Likewise, there are several barriers to increasing resources for specifying desired values. Our findings contribute to understanding the development of value specification methods that aim to overcome these barriers and thus could help improve the success rate of digitalization projects.
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- Grahn, Sten, et al.
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Barriers to value specification when carrying out digitalization projects
- 2021
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Ingår i: Technology Innovation Management Review. - : Carleton University. - 1927-0321. ; 11:5, s. 54-64
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- If digitalization projects aim to effectively create value for a company, one precondition is having a shared view among company staff and project members of what the "desirable" value is. However, it has been shown that few companies fully understand the value that digitalization projects can create for them, while many companies still launch digitalization projects without this understanding. This contributes to the current "alarmingly" low success rate for digitalization projects. Development of effective methods to specify the desired values of digitalization projects is thus important. One step in developing improved specification methods is to ask what the possible barriers are to improving current value specification practices. The purpose of the current study is to address this. We analyzed several digitalization projects regarding how specifications of desired project value were carried out, finding that very limited resources are spent on specifying desired values in digitalization projects, and that this limits project success. Likewise, there are several barriers to increasing resources for specifying desired values. Our findings contribute to understanding the development of value specification methods that aim to overcome these barriers and thus could help improve the success rate of digitalization projects.
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- Grahn, Sten, et al.
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How to Deal with Differing Views of Resource Efficiency when Carrying out Digitalization Projects
- 2020
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Ingår i: Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering. - : IOS Press BV. - 2352-751X .- 2352-7528. - 9781614994398 ; 13, s. 71-82
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Having project goals that are shared among project members are preconditions for resource efficient as well effective projects and operations. However, specifying and communicating project goals require an ability to identify goals that are indeed commonly shared. Rapid technological developments may require digitalization projects that lead to large portions of existing company staff being redundant, making it possible to assume that the quest of finding a commonly shared view of what is resource-efficient' will be increasingly challenging. Development of methods to specify project goals that are incentivizing for all project members and staff can hence be assumed to be important. One step in developing improved specification methods is to ask how the process to specify desired value from digitalization projects handles possible disagreements of what is desired value'. The purpose of this study was to answer this question. We analyzed several digitalization projects, and how specifications of desired project results impacted project outcomes. We found that potential disagreements regarding desirable project outcomes generally are avoided by avoiding specification of what a desirable resource efficiency outcome is, and how actual project outcomes should be measured. However, we also found that this practice also led to unsatisfying project outcomes regarding resource-efficiency improvements, and that improved methods to specify desired value from digitalization projects should be developed. Our findings support earlier findings that the general failure rate of digitalization projects is high, often due to insufficient specification of desired projects outcomes before the projects are initiated. Our findings contribute to the understanding that despite this, there are also perceived benefits of spending limited resources on specification of desired outcomes. If attempts to improve the success rate of digitalization projects by improving specifications of desired project outcomes is to succeed, these perceived benefits must be considered. © 2020 The authors
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- Grinbergs, Johan, et al.
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Partnerskap – en arena for entreprenörskap?
- 2008
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Ingår i: Arenor for entreprenörskap. - Örebro : Forum för småföretagsforskning. - 9189301250
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- Grinbergs, Johan, 1972-
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Pratnerskap - Ett sätt att organisera regional tillväxt : Perspektiv på regional utveckling som fenomen och en analys av ett tillväxtprogram
- 2014
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- During the first decade of the 21st century, there has been a shift in the view of what role regions should play in the creation of growth. From being governed from a national level more and more of the responsibility of creating growth is being transferred to a regional level. One example of this development has been the Regional Growth Program (RGP), which were implemented in all regions in Sweden during the period 2004 to 2007. This dissertation studies the RGP in the county of Västmanland, where a number of actors within the program have been interviewed as well as meetings within the program have been monitored. The interviews have been analyzed through a phenomenological oriented method which has resulted in six empirical themes. They consist of the following themes: region, growth, entrepreneurship, cooperation and competition, results, and talk and action. The last theme which concerns talk and action is being examined more thoroughly through the observations of meetings in the RGP and interviews with central actors. This theme is viewed as the most central and essential theme of the study. The dominating view of the central actors is that there is “too much talk and too little action” in the RGP In the latter part of the dissertation the theme of talk and action is examined further using a organizational perspective. The RGP is organized in so called “partnerships”, where the differences become very clear when compared to organization in a more traditional form. In traditional organizations, output can be observed as manufactured units or the value created in services performed. From such a perspective, consensus, efficiency and action – becomes the rational to strive for to maximize the effectiveness. Such a traditional view of organization is less useful for RGP – but is still in use since they are the dominant perspectives on how we value “good” organizing. In the case of the RGP the partnership have being assigned to cooperate and find new, better ways to stimulate the regional growth. The success of the partnership is still measured by quantitative indicators, which is not very logical since it is almost impossible to see if the partnership has had anything to do with affecting these indicators. With the support of theories from Brunsson (2006) I therefore propose the “talk organization” as an alternative to the “action organization” – and also see the potential of redefining the partnership as a form of such a talk organization. The advantages of such an approach could be to view the talking as an important prerequisite to potential action, and furthermore we can revalue the importance of creating talk opportunities to occur in such partnerships. This creates a view full of conflicts in relating to the traditional view of organization that advocates consensus and order – but in the supposedly creative talking partnerships the issue may be to uphold conflict, and a wide range of different views to be able to create something new. The dissertation has a theoretical focus that highlights the connection, but also contradictions, between the structural and symbolic in organizing and also how it may affect the potential for development and change.
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- Guziana, Bozena, 1963-, et al.
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Environmental leadership : The Environmental Technology Sector in Sweden from an Ecopreneurship Perspective
- 2012
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Ingår i: Sustainable Development. - Poznan : Poznan. - 9788361643258 ; , s. 187-200
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Economic actors and entrepreneurs are the central agents of change in the process of transformation needed to solve environmental challenges. The growing recognition of environmental issues has provided entrepreneurs with new opportunities, resulting in the emergence of ecopreneurs. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the character of ecopreneurship in the environmental technology sector, with focus on environmental responsibility and environmental leadership at both the company and sector level. The survey of companies and representatives of branch organisations in four environmental technology subsectors: Waste Management & Recycling, Bioenergy Fuels, Wind Energy Technology and Solar Energy Technology is based on telephone and personal interviews as well as on environmentally related information and statements on the websites. The literature review shows that there are different approaches to categorizing ecopreneurs and sustainability entrepreneurs. A key dimension is the value and motives of entrepreneurs, with dichotomy between opportunistic ecopreneurs, and those driven more by nonprofit value. Environmental technology and cleantech are commonly accepted as being green businesses as these sectors deliver environmental preferable products and services. According to the results there is a strong awareness about this environmental friendly profile within subsectors of environmental technology industry, both within branch organizations and within companies. However, this awareness does not always lead to a broader, green-green view of the environmental leadership. In many cases the branch organizations and the companies within environmental technology sector represent a more opportunistic approach towards environmental issues. Only one of branch organizations addresses environmental impacts of members.
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- Hafting, Tore, et al.
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Developing collaborative power in working life : linking American pragmatism and action research
- 2013
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Ingår i: American Pragmatism and Organisation. - : Gower Publishing Ltd.. - 9781409427865 ; , s. 205-222
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter argues that American pragmatism can inspire and support an important shift in prevailing social science discourses on power towards non-coercive, collaborative understandings of power consistent with a participatory democratic politics and way of life. It draws out an understanding of non-coercive, collaborative power from the works of Dewey and Follett, and illustrates its relevance for the analysis of power in the domain of action research. Collaborative power is here understood as power in the making’. Its chief merit is ensuring, first and foremost, cooperation between parties. The significance of collaborative power is more broadly applicable than the local communities in which the concept was originally developed. The concepts of circular response and integration of interest are useful in analysing collaborative power at the micro, meso and macro levels of society. Powerful people are, by virtue of their proprietary rights, able to change and reduce the effects of collaborative power.
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- Johansson, Anders W, et al.
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Emancipation or Workability? : Critical versus pragmatic scientific orientation in action research
- 2008
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Ingår i: Action Research. - : Sage Publication. - 1476-7503 .- 1741-2617. ; 6:1, s. 95-115
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article a distinction between a pragmatic and a critical orientation of action research is made. These orientations can be considered, implicitly or explicitly, to be the main alternatives in AR today. What are the assumptions behind, and practical implications for, AR projects with different orientations? A number of themes are introduced where a tension between the two are identified and illustrated in the form of a dialogue and friendly quarrel between proponents from each side. It is argued that the two orientations suit different research contexts and cannot easily be combined. The pragmatic orientation is well suited for contexts where concerted and immediate action is needed, whereas the critical is preferable where transformative action needs to be preceded by critical thinking and reflection. In the former, power to act is a desired outcome, and in the latter, unequal and invisible power relations need to be unveiled before they can be transformed. The responsibility of the researcher, as well as the form of knowledge developed, differs between the two orientations.
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- Lindhult, Erik, et al.
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72 hours to innovation as creative democracy
- 2008
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Opening up innovation processes requires the development of forceful and efficient practices and methods that is able to mobilize and pool the creative capacities of a broader range of people. This paper will focus on a collaborative innovation design – the Innovation Plant - that in its concentrated form is a 72 hours innovation race. The purpose of the paper is to conceptualize and interpret the “72 hours to innovation” methodology from the point of view of “creative democracy”, the mobilisation of the creative capacity of all. As a form of crowd sourcing, the methodology develops concentrated creativity in order to radically accelerate innovation.
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- Lindhult, Erik
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Are Partnerships Innovative?
- 2008
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Ingår i: Partnership - As a Strategy for Social Innovation and Sustainable Change. - : Santérus förlag. - 9789173350112
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- Lindhult, Erik
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Att bedöma och uppnå kvalitet i interaktiv forskning
- 2008
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Ingår i: Gemensamt kunskapande – den interaktiva forskningen praktik. - Växjö : Växjö University Press. - 9789176366219 ; , s. 333-349
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- Lindhult, Erik, et al.
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Complexity approach to joint value discovery in service innovation management
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Ingår i: The Proceedings of The XXV ISPIM Conference 2014 Dublin, Ireland - 8-11 June 2014. - Dublin, Ireland. - 9789522655912
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The paper describes how complexity notions can be useful to model Servitization dynamics in industrial companies moving from product based to service oriented configuration. It is a movement towards joint value discovery in industrial service innovation management increasing potentials for radical or architectural innovation. Based on process oriented research on global industrial companies identifying transition phases of Servitization, a complexity model is developed to understand, predict and guide the process, mechanisms, and outcomes of increased capacity for joint value discovery. The model synthesizes and extends to service innovation management a complexity approach originally introduced by Goldstein, Hazy and Lichtenstein (2010) and called the Cusp of Change Model. The theoretical developments are particularly useful in guiding leadership of innovation in broader organizational and networked settings, contributing to development of service innovation strategies as well as systemic leadership of innovation activity in services in global industrial companies.
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- Lindhult, Erik
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Democratizing Innovation - Theoretical considerations
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Ingår i: The Proceedings of The XXIII ISPIM Conference 2012. - 9789522652430
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- There are today trends towards democratizing innovation (von Hippel, 2005) in line with the vision of creative democracy earlier recognized by thinkers like Dewey (1939) and Follett (1998). User involvement and the internet as a medium for interaction is broadening the participation in innovation processes. What is lacking in innovation research is conceptual and theoretical understanding of democratizing dimensions of innovation management grounded in theories of participatory democracy. The purpose of the paper is to contribute with understanding of the character of democratic innovation management based on four variants of theory of participatory democracy. The study is performed through synthesis of liberal, communitarian, discursive and interactive theories of participatory democracy, and investigating how these theories contribute with understanding of participation and the mobilization of creative capacities of people as well as how to integrate them freely into collaborative, innovative and efficient innovation processes.
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- Lindhult, Erik
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Development of Total Innovation Management Approach for Service Innovation
- 2012
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Ingår i: 2012 International Symposium on Management of Technology, ISMOT 2012. - 9781467345934 ; , s. 28-32
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Stronger global completion provides an impetus for servitization in global industrial companies, that is, to shift from selling products to selling integrated products and services. To increase efficiency in service innovation there is a need to reorganize innovation system and build suitable capabilities, something which require significant organizational transformation. The purpose of the paper is to describe a Scandinavian effort to develop a Total Innovation Management (TIM) approach to service innovation. Firstly, a theoretical framework for innovation system for service is developed. Secondly, through a case illustration it is shown that servitization in practice imply complex dynamics of many factors, forces and agency which both works towards and restricts servitization. To deal with this dynamic there is a need for a TIM approach.
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- Lindhult, Erik, et al.
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Nietzschean transcendence as core entrepreneurial challange
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Ingår i: Paper to Nordic Academy of Management Conference NFF 2011, Stockholm.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- By appropriating learning from the social and cultural sciences, entrepreneurship and innovation as research fields can be enriched and deepened. Nietzsche can make a contribution to the understanding of entrepreneurship as a matter of transcending the established order, through the creative work of actors. E.g. in order to be able to handle “radical” forms innovation and entrepreneurship, Nietzchean conceptual resources and perspectives can be helpful. He is a philosopher of the unconventional par excellence. An important aspect of transcendence is the overcoming and self-transcendence of the self. The concept of ubermensch by Nietzsche is here intriguing and ambivalent in the reception of his work - seemingly an analogy to the ambivalence of the entrepreneur-hero in the entrepreneurship literature. Closer reading indicate a more complex understanding of men through creative work overcoming themselves, and breaking loose of established customs and norms.
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