Making Sense of Innovation in the Built Environment
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Making Sense of Innovation in the Built Environment

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Making Sense of Innovation in the Built Environment

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This book offers a new understanding of innovation in the built environment. The ways meaning of innovation is constructed has important implications for policymakers, project managers, academics and students. Through a longitudinal research study into innovation in firms and projects, the book addresses some key themes, challenges and concerns that practitioners face when managing innovation in the built environment. It examines the key drivers for innovation in the construction, engineering and infrastructure firms and projects. In particular, the questions of how and why innovation becomes recognised and sustained over time are explored. Different theoretical perspectives are considered to explain different aspects of innovation. This includes sensemaking, organisational and individual identity, storytelling and narration.

The book has practical implications for how organisational activities become labelled as 'innovation' and for what purpose. It shares some lived stories of innovation as mobilised by practising managers. The connectivity between the formal narratives of innovation at the policy level and the lived narratives of innovation articulated by practitioners is explored. Combining the theory with practice, this book presents an insightful view on the implications of innovation in the business world today.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2019
ISBN
9781351117326
Edition
1
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Architecture General

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. 1 What does innovation mean?
  9. 2 Labelling activities as innovations
  10. 3 Constructing identities and images as innovative
  11. 4 The narrative turn in innovation studies
  12. 5 Innovation and storytelling
  13. 6 The evolution of innovation narratives in the built environment
  14. 7 Innovation leadership
  15. 8 Employees' motivation to contribute innovative ideas
  16. 9 Lived stories about innovation
  17. 10 Leading innovation in megaprojects
  18. Glossary
  19. Index