Salaman, Graeme and Storey, John
(2009).
‘Nature has no outline, but imagination has’ contrasting executive renditions of the ‘commitment to innovation’.
European Management Journal, 27(4),
pp. 234–242.
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Abstract
In recent years, corporate and governmental agency declarations of a commitment to, and exploitation of, ‘innovation’ has been pervasive and powerful. In this paper we show how executives rearrange such a dominant societal thematic in order to control their organization in a manner which fits with their interpretative schemas. Drawing upon in-depth research of discourse and action in two major corporations – one in banking and the other in advanced telecommunications equipment design and manufacture – we reveal how senior executives ‘ruled in’ certain ways of talking about innovation and strategy and also as a direct result, ‘ruled out’ other, alternative ways of thinking. Antecedent, formative thinking leading up to the banking crisis of 2008 is explored.
| Item Type: |
Journal Article
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| Copyright Holders: |
2008 Elsevier Ltd. |
| ISSN: |
0263-2373 |
| Funders: |
Economic and Social Research Council [grant number RES-334-25-0008] |
| Keywords: |
knowledge; strategy; innovation; executive directors |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Open University Business School |
| Item ID: |
12975 |
| Depositing User: |
John Storey
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| Date Deposited: |
29 Jan 2009 03:50 |
| Last Modified: |
24 Oct 2012 08:58 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/12975 |
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