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- Basu, Eve-Michelle
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Typifications of Contemporary New Venture Units : An Exploratory Analysis of Visual Registers
- 2020
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Ingår i: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings. - 0065-0668 .- 2151-6561.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Innovation ‘labs’ and ‘garages’ and units sometimes simply called ‘X’ are mushrooming in large corporations. Such new venture units are, however, not a novel phenomenon and have gone in and out of fashion since the 1970s. Extant work conceives of these units as vehicles for corporate venturing and discusses them as places that allow internal new ventures to grow in an environment, designed specifically to support and protect the development of fledgling new ventures with the appropriate culture and routines, until they are ready to be adopted by the mainstream organization. This understanding is, however, colored by the common conceptual and methodological choices of prior research and may overlook other meanings of NVUs. In this study, we thus problematize the ‘settled’ view of NVUs in the literature and study corporations’ intersubjectively shared, situated and culturally embedded ideas about NVUs, and their essential characteristics, that are embodied in visual representations of NVUs. For this purpose, we explore recurring, typified symbolic instantiations of actors and acts, as well as the use of visual language, in 464 images used to present and introduce NVUs on the websites of 30 large, European corporations. We find that the habitat of NVUs, and life inside it, (i.e. NVUs way of working and working conditions) and not ventures and outputs are central to the visual discourse."
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- Fünfschilling, Lea, et al.
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Innovation-as-Maintenance – A New Perspective on the Relation Between Innovations and Institutions
- 2020
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Ingår i: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings. - New York : Academy of Management. - 0065-0668 .- 2151-6561.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Innovation is currently often seen as a panacea for all of today’s ‘grand challenges’, such as climate change and other persistent problems related to sustainability. Underlying this belief is the assumption that innovation, especially when radical enough, brings relevant change. In this paper, we problematize this assumption by shedding light on the role of innovation for maintenance and stability. Drawing on innovation studies and organizational institutionalism we suggest that the question of change versus maintenance is often a matter of level of analysis, which we go on to show through two empirical case studies of radical innovation. By conceptualizing innovation-as-maintenance, we offer a more nuanced discussion on the role of innovation for societal change and sustainability.
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- Kok, Holmer, et al.
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R&D Team Composition and the Internal Versus External Diffusion of Inventions
- 2020
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Ingår i: Academy of Management Proceedings. - : Academy of Management. - 0065-0668 .- 2151-6561.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Extant literature has demonstrated how R&D team composition influences the diffusion of new inventions. Yet, this literature has largely overlooked whether these benefits stemming from subsequent inventions are captured by the originating firm or by its competitors. In this study, we explore how R&D team characteristics influence diffusion within the same firm as well as beyond, arguing that the organizational position of the team, its size, and its tenure affect internal and external diffusion differently. An empirical analysis of 19,719 patented inventions developed by a large electronics conglomerate provide robust evidence for the differential effect of R&D team composition on subsequent diffusion within and beyond the firm. The findings of this study contribute to literature on knowledge diffusion, value creation and capture, and team compositions.
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