Managers of innovation : insights into making innovation happen /
Storey, John
Managers of innovation : insights into making innovation happen / John Storey and Graeme Salaman - Unites States of America : Blackwell Publishers, c2005 - ix, 193 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I : Introduction -- 1. Innovation : problems and possibilities -- 2. The Current state of knowledge about innovation -- Part II: Managers accounts of innovation -- 3. From tight control to the edge of anarchy: managing innovation in telecommunications -- 4. Managing creative workers in an innovative way -- 5. Contrasting approaches to innovation in engineered manufactured goods -- 6. Innovation in the voluntary sector -- Part III: Synthesis -- 7. Conclusions
This book looks at how to foster innovation in organizations, focusing on managers as the key participants in the process. * Presents an original theory about the characteristics of managers in "good innovative organizations" and "poor innovative organizations.
1405124628
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS
HD 45 .S845 2005
Managers of innovation : insights into making innovation happen / John Storey and Graeme Salaman - Unites States of America : Blackwell Publishers, c2005 - ix, 193 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I : Introduction -- 1. Innovation : problems and possibilities -- 2. The Current state of knowledge about innovation -- Part II: Managers accounts of innovation -- 3. From tight control to the edge of anarchy: managing innovation in telecommunications -- 4. Managing creative workers in an innovative way -- 5. Contrasting approaches to innovation in engineered manufactured goods -- 6. Innovation in the voluntary sector -- Part III: Synthesis -- 7. Conclusions
This book looks at how to foster innovation in organizations, focusing on managers as the key participants in the process. * Presents an original theory about the characteristics of managers in "good innovative organizations" and "poor innovative organizations.
1405124628
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS
HD 45 .S845 2005