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The Management Of Innovation Problem

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  • JOHN STOREY

    (The Open University Business School, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK6 7AA, United Kingdom)

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The vital importance of innovation in today's competitive climate has been widely canvassed. But while theneedfor more innovation is intensively proclaimed, the response for some time now has been widely regarded as falling well short of what is required. In other words, there is and has long been a perceived "innovation problem" in the UK and of course in many other countries. There is a large literature exploring the barriers to innovation and this has identified a whole array of factors ranging from the macro-level (such as a tendency towards short-termism) to the micro-level (including personality traits and team characteristics). This article reports the results from a new extensive study which addresses the "problem" by attending to the perceptions, assumptions, interpretations and cognitions of managers — i.e. those actors who determine organisational priorities and who make crucial resource allocation decisions. These managerial ways of seeing have vital consequences for organisational innovation. This article reports on the marked variety of managerial interpretations of innovation; it presents new ways of classifying these and it describes the practical implications of these insights.

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  • John Storey, 2000. "The Management Of Innovation Problem," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 4(03), pages 347-369.
  • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijimxx:v:04:y:2000:i:03:n:s1363919600000196
    DOI: 10.1142/S1363919600000196
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    1. Avraam Papastathopoulos & Christina C. Beneki, 2011. "Predicting Innovation Activity In European Manufacturing Firms: A Multi-Country Empirical Study," International Journal of Management and Marketing Research, The Institute for Business and Finance Research, vol. 4(2), pages 49-65.
    2. Tran Thi Bach Yen & Le Binh Minh & Tran Thu Huong, 2019. "Analyzing the Barriers to Innovation Development in Emerging Economies: Vietnamese Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) as an Empirical Case," Asian Economic and Financial Review, Asian Economic and Social Society, vol. 9(1), pages 64-77, January.
    3. Jakub Tabas & Michaela Beranová & Jan Vavřina, 2011. "Barriers to development of the innovation potential in the small and medium-sized enterprises," Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, Mendel University Press, vol. 59(7), pages 447-458.
    4. Edeltraud Guenther & Anne-Karen Hueske & Sanjay Kumar & Rhama Parthasarathy, 2017. "Sustainable management at Indian Railways: how a self-evaluation tool for barrier analysis facilitates green procurement [Nachhaltige Unternehmensführung bei der Indischen Eisenbahn: Wie ein Selbst," Sustainability Nexus Forum, Springer, vol. 25(3), pages 235-246, November.
    5. Gonzalo Maldonado-Guzmán & José Trinidad Marín-Aguilar & Sandra Yesenia Pinzón-Castro, 2017. "Service Innovation in Mexican Small Business," Advances in Management and Applied Economics, SCIENPRESS Ltd, vol. 7(4), pages 1-1.
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    7. Nisar Ahamad Nalband & Saad Alkelabi & Dafieah Awad Jaber, 2016. "Innovation Practices in Saudi Arabian Businesses," International Journal of Business and Management, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 11(4), pages 136-136, March.
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    11. Lijing Tong & Ningyue Liu & Min Zhang & Liming Wang, 2018. "Employee Protection and Corporate Innovation: Empirical Evidence from China," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 153(2), pages 569-589, December.

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