Manual Strategy & Innovation

Submitted by: dr.ir. I.S. Lammers & drs.ir. F. Bridoux

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Section One: Introduction: innovation, mapping the field

Reading 1: Van de Ven et al, The innovation journey, Ch. 1: Inroduction and Overview

Reading 2: Rogers, Diffusion of innovation

Reading 3: Roberts & Amit, The dynamics of innovative activity and competitive advantage: the case of Australian Retail Banking

Reading 4: Dougherty, Organizing for innovation

Section Two: New Product/service development, key issues and perspectives

Reading 1: Van de Ven et al., Ch. 2: Mapping the Innovation Journey

Reading 2: Brown & Eisenhardt, Product development: past research, present findings, and future directions

Reading 3: Von Hippel, Democratizing Innovation, Ch. 2 & 3

Reading 4: Gallouj & Weinstein, Innovation in services

SectionThree: Innovations & large firms: problems and paradoxes

Reading 1: Leonard-Barton, Core capabilities and core rigidities: a paradox in managing new product technologies and the failure of established firms

Reading 2: Henderson & Clark, Architectural innovation: the reconfiguration of existing product technologies and the failure of establishing firms

Reading 3: Dougherty & Hardy, Sustained product innovation in large mature organizations: overcoming innovation-to-organization problems

Reading 4: Hargadon & Douglas, When innovations meet institutions: Edison and the design of the electric light

Section Four: Innovation beyond the firm: innovation by collaborating and networks

Reading 1: Dyer & Nobeoka, Creating and managing a high-performance knowledge sharing network: the Toyota case

Reading 2: Powell, Koput, & Smith-Doerr, Interorganizational collaboration and the locus of innovation: networks of learning in biotechnology

Reading 3: Man & Duysters, Collaboration and innovation, a review of the effects of mergers, acquisitions and alliances on innovation

Section Five: Soft innovations. Developing memorable experiences

Reading 1: Hargadon & Bechky, When collections of creatives become creative collectives: a field study of problem solving at work

Reading 2: Lampel, Lant & Shamsie, Balancing act: learning from organizing practices in cultural industries

Reading 3: Schweitzer, Managing interactions between technological and sylistic innovation in the media industries

Case 1: Philips, Guerilla, Pallezina Production, Stage Entertainment, Joop van der Ende