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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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      Making Sense of Innovation in the Built Environment book

      ByNatalya Sergeeva
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2018
      eBook Published 18 December 2018
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351117340
      Pages 162
      eBook ISBN 9781351117340
      Subjects Built Environment, Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Engineering & Technology
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      Sergeeva, N. (2018). Making Sense of Innovation in the Built Environment (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351117340

      ABSTRACT

      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.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|21 pages

      What does innovation mean?

      chapter 2|18 pages

      Labelling activities as innovations

      chapter 3|13 pages

      Constructing identities and images as innovative

      chapter 4|11 pages

      The narrative turn in innovation studies

      chapter 5|10 pages

      Innovation and storytelling

      chapter 6|11 pages

      The evolution of innovation narratives in the built environment

      chapter 7|8 pages

      Innovation leadership

      chapter 8|15 pages

      Employees' motivation to contribute innovative ideas

      chapter 9|30 pages

      Lived stories about innovation

      chapter 10|11 pages

      Leading innovation in megaprojects

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