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Tables of Contents for Complexity and Innovation in Organizations
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Series preface
ix
Introduction
1
10
The paradox of innovation
4
1
The inevitability of change
5
2
Innovation as complex responsive processes of relating
7
2
Outline of the book
9
2
Mainstream thinking about innovation in organizations
11
18
Classical and neoclassical economics
11
3
Evolutionary economics
14
4
Innovation as a rational planning process
18
3
Innovation as a social and political process
21
6
The evidence
27
1
Conclusion
28
1
The role of the individual in the process of innovation
29
22
Oliveira's story of innovative concrete pipes
31
13
The role of the individual
44
3
Networks of conversations
47
2
Conclusion
49
2
The conversational nature of the innovation process
51
18
The story of systems development at a water utility
54
12
The absence of the heroic entrepreneur
66
1
Power relations
67
1
Conclusion
68
1
Innovation as complex responsive processes
69
25
The complexity sciences as source domain for analogies with human interaction
70
2
Interpreting the analogies in terms of human action
72
2
Differences between mainstream thinking and the perspective of complex responsive processes
74
1
What organizations are
75
5
How innovation arises
80
11
What innovation is
91
1
Conclusion
92
2
Innovation and the reconfiguration of power relations
94
17
The story of an electronic product catalogue
95
8
The transformation of meaning
103
4
The take off of the product catalogue
107
3
Conclusion
110
1
Conclusion
111
10
Conversation as the process of dissipating meaning
111
4
Relationship as the condition for living with anxiety
115
1
The emergence of meaning
116
2
The institutionalization of meaning
118
1
The challenge to the institutionalization of meaning
119
2
Bibliography
121
4
Index
125