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Keeping Alive Inter-Organisational Innovation Through Identity Work And Play

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  • JANE WEBB

    (Department of Technology Management and Economics, Chalmers University of Technology, Vera Sandbergs allé 8, 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden)

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This paper discusses how people draw on the strategic interests and motivations of their home organisations in negotiating the activities inter-organisational collaboration for innovation will include. Through presenting ethnographic snapshots of a case involving fifteen partner organisations, the paper explores how members of a coordinating group make sense of the possibilities and constraints for joint work. As they discuss new activities, they engage in identity work and identity play, simultaneously identifying with their home organisations and the meta-organisation. This finding challenges previous research assuming the importance of a coherent and stable collective identity for collaborative work. Instead the author suggests that innovation practitioners leave space for multiple objectives to emerge over time within joint activities in order to keep alive inter-organisational innovation. The author calls for more research into how the interplay of organisational identities enables and constrains the practices of organising for inter-organisational innovation.

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  • Jane Webb, 2017. "Keeping Alive Inter-Organisational Innovation Through Identity Work And Play," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 21(05), pages 1-22, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijimxx:v:21:y:2017:i:05:n:s1363919617400096
    DOI: 10.1142/S1363919617400096
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