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Is Radical Innovation Management Misunderstood? Problematising The Radical Innovation Discipline

In: Radical Innovation Challenges Corporate to Climate

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  • JIMMI NORMANN KRISTIANSEN
  • FRANK GERTSEN

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This paper poses a critical view on radical innovation (RI) management research and practice. The study investigates how expected RI performance influences firms’ understanding of their RI capability. RI performance is often based on output measures such as market shares or fiscal return. On the contrary, RI capability building advocates for exploration, learning, and accepting uncertainty. Hence, RI capability building often focuses on the processes of the firms, and not the outcome. Thus, it is argued that the RI capability-building and RI performance expectations are based on different managerial orientations. Coupling a discussion of the literature with case findings from four large international firms, this paper identifies a discrepancy between RI capability-building and RI performance within literature and practice. This is regarded to be a major contributing factor to RI program failure. This study presents three misunderstandings related to RI research and practice and discusses implications of these findings.

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  • Jimmi Normann Kristiansen & Frank Gertsen, 2023. "Is Radical Innovation Management Misunderstood? Problematising The Radical Innovation Discipline," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Joe Tidd (ed.), Radical Innovation Challenges Corporate to Climate, chapter 3, pages 23-45, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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    Keywords

    Innovation; Technology; Radical; Breakthroughs; Disruptive; Blue Ocean; New Product Development; Design Thinking; Business Model Innovation; Climate Change;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • O3 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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