A Complexity Perspective on Innovation Processes for Subsea Technology Development

Autor/in	Aasen, Tone Merethe Berg
Titel	A Complexity Perspective on Innovation Processes for Subsea Technology Development
Quelle	In: International Journal of Learning and Change, 3 (2009) 3, S.294-307 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1740-2875
DOI	10.1504/IJLC.2009.024694
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Innovation; Fuels; Industry; Oceanography; Technological Advancement; Work Environment; Organizational Culture; Perspective Taking; Norway + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Treibstoff; Industrie; Ozeanografie; Technological development; Technologische Entwicklung; Arbeitsmilieu; Unternehmenskultur; Zukunftsperspektive; Norwegen
Abstract	In today's business thinking, innovation is commonly equated with progress, indicating an underlying assumption that company management have the power to choose a specific future and control the way into it. Drawing on examples from a longitudinal research initiative in the Norwegian petroleum company StatoilHydro, this article raises some of the problems with this thinking. Experiences from the study indicate that most people in the organisation do not consider what they do in their everyday organisational life as "innovation", but rather as the provision, testing and use of technology. This suggests that the recognition of everyday activity as acts of innovation is an emergent phenomenon, expressed and potentially idealised in retrospection. The importance ascribed to technology as the enabler of a chosen future also makes topical the conceptualisation of "technology" in terms of innovation. (Contains 1 note.) (As Provided).
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