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The editors bring two terms, narrative and innovation, together in an interdisciplinary and interactive way. Narratives are ubiquitous and hold the potential to indicate future changes in politics, economies and markets. As "stressors" and stabilizers in organizations, narratives and changes in the consensus narrative indicate the need for strategic change or organizational stasis and may be utilized as a source for early recognition in strategic management. The use of narratives in management, however, makes it necessary to adopt a new perspective. This volume offers a polyphonic forum for the development of an interpretive approach towards business administration, strategic management, and entrepreneurship, by introducing instruments of semiotics, linguistics, narratology, and others. This compilation, therefore, presents a comprehensive overview of scientific and industrial perspectives beyond the mainstream. Content· Innovation· Narratology · Strategic Management · Entrepreneurship· Early Recognition Target groups· Lectures and students of economic and social sciences, cultural studies and philology· Leaders from business, politics and government EditorsDr. Andreas P. Müller is Professor of Intercultural Communication and Intercultural Management at Karlshochschule. He is Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration and Management.Dr. Lutz Becker is Professor of Management and Leadership at Karlshochschule International University, Karlsruhe, Germany, teaching and researching in the areas "Strategic Leadership", "International Management" and "Change & Innovation"

The editors bring two terms, narrative and innovation, together in an interdisciplinary and interactive way. Narratives are ubiquitous and hold the potential to indicate future changes in politics, economies and markets. As ""stressors"" and stabilizers in organizations, narratives and changes in the consensus narrative indicate the need for strategic change or organizational stasis and may be utilized as a source for early recognition in strategic management. The use of narratives in management, however, makes it necessary to adopt a new perspective. This volume offers a polyphonic forum for.

The concept of innovation features prominently in today's policy agendas. The Europe 2020 strategy and the respective 'flagship initiatives' validate this statement. Yet, a coherent correlation between innovation and the EU's competition policy seems to be still in need of clarification. By gauging various proxies, this contribution observes that the competition – innovation nexus, although well attended, may very well be ill-defined. By taking a closer look at the technology transfer regime and the abuse of dominance doctrine in EU competition law, we attempt to investigate if and how innovation features as an objective in the application of competition law. An explicit role for innovation appears to be limited to instances where competition law may contribute to optimal appropriation. Explicit references to 'environmental' determinants of innovation could not be found, yet discussing these could enhance the coherency in conceptualizing the innovation – competition nexus, and at the end of the day, in the EU's discourse relating to the importance of innovation in the years to come. The narrative described in this contribution may facilitate the orientation of EU competition law to innovation, as the broader policy agendas seem to require.

AbstractInnovating with the goal of conquering disease and injury is one of humanity's most admirable activities. With the variability of patients and diseases, medical innovation often involves complex interactions between the physicians in clinical practice and the rapid technological change from commercial firms. We apply aspects of interpretative hierarchy theory dealing with self‐reflective processes, particularly observation and description, to analyse these complex and dynamic relationships that foster innovation in medical technology. This systemic approach fixes certain parameters that help reduce complexity, (i) the notion of gain to adequately describe the change of observed technological hierarchies over time, and (ii) a systems description that allows clinical innovation to emerge as narratives. Our view of innovation in medical technology as an outcome of a high and low gain system finds its empirical illustration through the emergence of diagnostic solutions in medical imaging in the past decade. Finally, our research suggests epistemological and practical contributions to support the sound technological innovation in clinical practice with emphasis on selection criteria and holism for different stakeholders including physicians, firm managers and policymakers. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

The pandemic negatively impacted all aspects of human life, including tourism, which was even the worst affected, especially in Bali. This causes the legitimacy of the grand narrative of tourism to be delegitimized. This study aims to propose a paralogical idea, i.e. to build a mini-narrative as an innovation to overcome the fading legitimacy of tourism due to the pandemic. The deconstructive qualitative method is applied with heuristic and hermeneutic reading methods. Data were taken from texts contained in print media and non-print media employing observation, recording, and documentation, then analysed according to the research design by applying the theory of postmodernism. The results of the analysis show that the four forms of mini-narrative which are representing the characteristic of postmodernism namely appreciating nature, rising marginal, lessening idolization, and developing consciousness can be adopted as the concept of innovation in overcoming the fading legitimacy of tourism in the post-pandemic era.

Part I: Problematic frameworks and narratives of innovation. Why is imitation not innovation? / Benoit Godin -- 'Innovation fads' as an alternative research topic to pro-innovation bias: the examples of Jugaad and reverse innovation / Gerald Gaglio -- 'Best practices' as mimesis? Innovation policies in peripheral countries / Tiago Brandao and Carolina Bagattolli -- Innovation and the political state: beyond the myth of technologies and markets / Sebastian M. Pfotenhauer and Joakim Juhl -- Part II: What is left with the pro-innovation bias? Moving towards innovation through withdrawal: the neglect of destruction / Frederic Goulet and Dominique Vinck -- Comparing two cases of outlaw innovation: file sharing and legal highs / Johan Soderberg -- Unattended consequences of innovation / Karl-Erik Sveiby -- Part III: Reactions to innovation. Resistance as a latent factor of innovation / Martin W. Bauer -- Socio-technical dynamics of counter-hegemony and resistance / Herman Thomas, Lucas Becerra and Santiago Garrido -- 'No' and 'slow' innovation strategies as a response to increased innovation speed / Karl-Heinz Leitner -- Part IV: Alternative frameworks. Learning thanks to innovation failure / Dominque Vinck -- The economic rationality of NOvative behavior / Carolina Canibano, Maria-Isabel Encinar and Felix-Fernando Munoz -- Regulatory enforcement as sociotechnical systems maintenance / Lee Vinsel -- A discourse analysis of innovation in academic management literature / Beata Segercrantz, Karl-Erik Sveiby and Karin Berglund -- Physics or biology as models for the study of innovation / John Langrish -- Conclusion: towards critical studies of innovation / Benoit Godin and Dominique Vinck

Of late, innovation studies have taken a keen interest in exploring various components of informal sector grassroots innovations. While recognising the immense contribution of this scholarship in sensitising researchers and generating awareness, its connections to policymaking remain inadequate. In the absence of comprehensive policy discussions, the policy makers have often attempted to extrapolate the policies meant for formal sectors to suit the innovation requirements of the informal economy. The diverse, idiosyncratic nature of the informal grassroots innovation processes have not received adequate attention. Keeping in view the divergent motives, underpinnings and the nuances of informal sector grassroots innovations, this paper has undertaken a critical review of the various policy suggestions including intellectual property rights, commercialisation and standardisation on a mass scale, the role of awards and recognition for informal sector innovations, and the importance of feedback and standardisation. Based on ten years of ethnographic research in Kashmir, we identify key thematic insights into policy formulations for these innovations.