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Author Hoholm, Thomas, 1973- author.

Title The contrary forces of innovation : an ethnography of innovation in the food industry / Thomas Hoholm
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Contents PART I -- Understanding Innovation as Process -- Constructing Ethnography -- PART II -- Introducing the Case StudyFermenting Fish: Innovation In Practice -- PART III -- An Analytic Scheme Of Innovation ProcessesThe Contrary Forces Of Innovation -- Conclusion
Machine generated contents note: -- PART I -- Understanding Innovation as Process -- Constructing Ethnography -- PART II -- Introducing the Case StudyFermenting Fish: Innovation In Practice -- PART III -- An Analytic Scheme Of Innovation ProcessesThe Contrary Forces Of Innovation -- Conclusion
Summary Why do innovations tend to 'explode' into multiple versions when inventors seek to realize them? Why do most innovators seem to promise too much certainty about the future? And why is it so hard for innovations to succeed in finding use and establish a market? Thomas€Hoholm presents a real-time study of the messy realm of industrial innovation. The complexity and the tensions of industrial innovation processes are fleshed out through the analysis of an intriguing case study from the food industry. By drawing together insights from innovation studies, science and technology studies, and studies of industrial networks, the controversies of innovation are investigated. Particular attention is given to the interaction between the mobilising of actors-networks and the exploration of knowledge, as well as to the interaction among the networks of interconnected processes called 'industry'. Through an ethnographic case study of innovation between the biomarine and agricultural industries, Hoholm has followed innovation processes from idea to commercialization. His study adds to our understanding of innovation dynamics, particularly related to path creation, network friction, and the relationships between divergence and convergence in industrial innovation processes
"The complexity and tensions of industrial innovation processes are fleshed out through the analysis of an intriguing case study from the food industry. Drawing together insights from multiple disciplines, this book shows the controversial nature of innovation processes."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Fishery processing -- Technological innovations -- Sweden
Organizational change -- Sweden
Ethnic food industry -- Sweden
Fermented fish -- Sweden
Impact of science & technology on society.
Food manufacturing & related industries.
Business innovation.
Organizational theory & behaviour.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Operations Research.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Science.
Ethnic food industry
Fermented fish
Organizational change
Ethnologie
Innovation
Lebensmittelindustrie
Sweden
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230302082
0230302084
9786613266361
6613266361
0230312608
9780230312609