Understanding Novelty in Organizations A Research Path Across Agency and Consequences /

• Main Author: Frigotto, Maria Laura (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Organization.; Planning.; Leadership.; Knowledge management.; Management.; Industrial management.; Project management.; Business Strategy/Leadership.; Knowledge Management.; Innovation/Technology Management.; Project Management.

Providing a first tentative understanding of novelty and a set of implications for organizations to manage it, this book focuses on the potential offered by emergent novelty, namely novelty which is neither designed nor pursued. The author asks how organizations might increase their abilities and st...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• Part I. Novelty from the Background to the Spotlight
• 2. Novelty in Evolution
• 3. Novelty in Organization Studies
• Part II. A Framework for Novelty
• 4. Novelty Across Consequences and Control
• 5. Black Novelties and the Early Recognition of Emergence
• 6. White Novelties and their Capture
• Part III. A Primer
• 7. A Working Definition and Tentative Models
• 8. Management Strategies and Organizational Implications.