Central problems in the management of innovation
Management Science
Fumbling the future: how Xerox invented, then ignored, the first personal computer
Fumbling the future: how Xerox invented, then ignored, the first personal computer
Distributed Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 2)
Technology integration: making critical choices in a dynamic world
Technology integration: making critical choices in a dynamic world
Sorting things out: classification and its consequences
Sorting things out: classification and its consequences
Critics' Corner: Critical Resistance to the Jazz Metaphor
Organization Science
Managing as Designing
Networks of Innovation: Change and Meaning in the Age of the Internet
Networks of Innovation: Change and Meaning in the Age of the Internet
Narrative Networks: Patterns of Technology and Organization
Organization Science
Legitimating Nascent Collective Identities: Coordinating Cultural Entrepreneurship
Organization Science
Dealing with Unusual Experiences: A Narrative Perspective on Organizational Learning
Organization Science
Knowledge Collaboration in Online Communities
Organization Science
The role of narratives in collaborative information seeking
Proceedings of the 17th ACM international conference on Supporting group work
When explanations "cause" error: A look at representations and compressions
Information-Knowledge-Systems Management - Complex Socio-Technical Systems --Understanding and Influencing Causality of Change
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Sustaining innovation is a vital yet difficult task. Innovation requires the coordinated efforts of many actors to facilitate (1) the recombination of ideas to generate novelty, (2) real-time problem solving, and (3) linkages between present innovation efforts with past experiences and future aspirations. We propose that innovation narratives are cultural mechanisms that address these coordination requirements by enabling translation. Specifically, innovation narratives are powerful mechanisms for translating ideas across the organization so that they are comprehensible and appear legitimate to others. Narratives also enable people to translate emergent situations that are ambiguous or equivocal so as to promote real-time problem solving. With their accumulation, innovation narratives provide a generative memory for organizations that enable people to translate ideas accumulated from particular instances of past innovation to inform current and future efforts.