Scientific Communication, Innovation Networks and Organization Structures*

Perry, Nick

doi:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1993.tb00474.x

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“…Accordingly, innovative firms are characterized by meetings, both informal meeting among those vested in a certain part of the work and formal meetings where progress to date and problems encountered are explicitly addressed. Put differently, innovative efforts are characterized by the weekly review meeting and intense, active communication among those involved in the innovative effort (Perry, 1993).…”

Section: Where Does It Occur?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Leading for Innovation

Mumford

Newbold²,

Fichtel³

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Creativity, the generation of novel and useful ideas, and innovation, the transformation of these ideas into new products, processes, and services, are both critical for the long-term viability, profitability, and growth of organizations. Moreover, the complex, risky, and uncertain nature of innovative efforts demonstrates the importance of organizational leaders to effectively manage the innovative process. In this element, we discuss the role of leaders in effectively facilitating the creative problem-solving process that gives rise to innovative products, processes, and services. More specifically, we highlight the knowledge, skills, and behaviors needed to effectively lead across three integrated facets of this process-leading the people, leading the work, and leading the firm. This discussion promotes an understanding of how leaders manage those asked to engage in innovative efforts and, moreover, how leaders systematically integrate creative ideas within the organization to ensure the development and success of innovative products, processes, or services.

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Section: Where Does It Occur?mentioning

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Fichtel³

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“…Innovation networks can be used as a medium through which material and symbolic resources are mobilised and combined (Perry 1993). Of course, networks are also seen as structural conditions for social learning (Podolny/Page 1998).…”

Section: Innovation Network In the Building Sectormentioning

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Habilitation Thesis: Sustainable Technology - Studies on User Innovation, Social Learning and Innovation Networks

Ornetzeder¹

2016

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“…Understood as limiting cases, therefore, science and politics embody contrasting tendencies of action, rival principles of organization, disparate linguistic conventions, opposed structures of communication and different patterns of incentives. Since, historically, the cognitive efficacy and power of science has been predicated upon such relative autonomy, this constitutes a problem for decision makers who are seeking to circumscribe the use and implications of scientific findings (Perry 1993).…”

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Indecent Exposures: Theorizing Whistleblowing

Perry

1998

Organization Studies

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Whistleblowers' are defined as insiders who 'go public' in their criticism of the policy and/or conduct of powerful organizations. Their actions dramatize the more general issue of the relation between politics and truth, between power and knowledge and the institutions which sustain them. This is exemplified by those problems which arise out of the changing relation between scientific-technical expertise and the contemporary corporate system. The associated contradictions form the focus of this paper, in which the institutional and discursive characteristics of a cognitively efficacious technoscience are contrasted with the traditional premises of political action and the principles of political organization. The construction of innovation networks and the development of uncoupling practices are interpreted as working solutions to the problem of reconciling these otherwise distinct institutional imperatives with each other. These solutions, in their turn, presuppose the exercise of communication control over the scientific-technical and professional stratum, a control legitimated by a system of institutional and organizational myth and ceremony. The associated structurally generated dilemmas are thereby displaced onto individuals, a fraction of whom blow the whistle. This form of occupational 'suicide' is thus available for interpretation as either heroic or pathological. In this paper, however, the psychology of the whistleblower is viewed as less pertinent than the social construction and imputation of motives. The statistical (in)frequency of such behaviour is seen as being less pertinent than the extent and intensity of the controversy it promotes.

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Scientific Communication, Innovation Networks and Organization Structures*

Cited by 8 publications

References 14 publications

Leading for Innovation

Leading for Innovation

Habilitation Thesis: Sustainable Technology - Studies on User Innovation, Social Learning and Innovation Networks

Indecent Exposures: Theorizing Whistleblowing

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