Emergent combinations of frameworks, theories, and grounded action: one solution to overcoming the hurdles to innovation as a growth strategy
by Vikram Murthy
World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development (WRSTSD), Vol. 6, No. 1, 2009

Abstract: Corporations have rediscovered innovation as a growth strategy that underwrites both exploitative extraction and entrepreneurial exploration in turbulent times. In reviewing the research this paper posits three main hurdles to embedding it as a deterministic process in organisations: firstly, creative abrasions between process and practice; secondly, strategic contradictions that impact on organisation design; and thirdly, leadership engagement with, and endorsement of, innovation programmes. It argues using a case-study that only an emergent combination of academic, practitioner and praxis based frameworks, models and grounded action can overcome such hurdles.

Online publication date: Wed, 07-Jan-2009

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