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Managers of Innovation: Insights into Making Innovation Happen

ISBN: 978-1-4051-2461-4
Paperback
208 pages
December 2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • This book looks at how to foster innovation in organizations, focusing on managers as the key participants in the process.

  • Presents an original theory about the characteristics of managers in “good innovative organizations” and “poor innovative organizations.

  • Pays close attention to the attitudes, understandings, assumptions and interpretations of managers.

  • Uses real-life case studies to illustrate its argument, including Hewlett-Packard, Zeneca, the BBC and Oxfam.

  • Based on a new data set of 350 in-depth interviews with senior managers – the largest study of its kind.

  • Enriched by substantial and highly revealing quotations from senior managers.
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