Managers of Innovation Insights into Making Innovation Happen

by Storey, John; Salaman, Graeme

• ISBN13: 9781405124621
• ISBN10: 1405124628
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-10
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This book looks at how to foster innovation in organizations, focusing particularly on managers as the key participants in the process.

Author Biography

John Storey is Professor of Management at the Open University Business School and a consultant to leading corporations. He has authored and edited sixteen books on business, management and organizations. He is a non-executive director on two management boards.

Graeme Salaman is Professor of Organizational Studies at the Open University Business School. He has worked as a consultant in eight countries for clients such as Sun Microsystems, Willis, BAT, the government of Ethiopia, Fujitsu, Allianz, Ernst and Young, Rolls Royce, and Morgan Stanley.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	vi
Preface	vii
About the Authors	x
Part I Introduction	1	(34)
1 Innovation: Problems and Possibilities	3	(12)
2 The Current State of Knowledge about Innovation	15	(20)
Part II Managers' Accounts of Innovation	35	(106)
3 From Tight Control to the Edge of Anarchy: Managing Innovation in Telecommunications	37	(24)
4 Managing Creative Workers in an Innovative Way	61	(27)
5 Contrasting Approaches to Innovation in Engineered Manufactured Goods	88	(27)
6 Innovation in the Voluntary Sector	115	(26)
Part III Synthesis	141	(36)
7 Conclusions	143	(34)
Appendix: Research Methods	177	(8)
Bibliography	185	(6)
Index	191