EconPapers    
Economics at your fingertips  
 

Actions driving and legitimizing radical innovations in a large firm

Johansson Magnus, Rani Dang (dang@gredeg.cnrs.fr) and Rick Middel
Additional contact information
Johansson Magnus: Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Université de Gothenburg, Suède - IIE - Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Université de Gothenburg, Suède - GU - Göteborgs Universitet = University of Gothenburg
Rick Middel: Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Université de Gothenburg, Suède - IIE - Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Université de Gothenburg, Suède - GU - Göteborgs Universitet = University of Gothenburg

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: In a longitudinal real time case study over 14 months, we follow the process of radical innovation in an incumbent Swedish firm. Applying institutional theory and the concept of legitimacy, we try to shed new light on the firm process of developing and implementing radical ideas. We deconstruct the black box of individual actions undertaken in the process and trace the effect of these actions on the development and legitimacy for the radical idea. We find that when an idea lack top management support and the process of innovation are interrupted, lower level employees' action can have a defining impact of the survival. In the literature there is a perceived need for a consistent view on how to organize the bottom up processes of innovation within a firm. Emerging from the qualitative grounded analysis we thus formalize these actions undertaken in a radical innovation process.

Keywords: Legitimacy; Radical Innovation; Actions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-04-25
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-ent, nep-hme, nep-ino, nep-knm and nep-ppm
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00727515
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published in The Conference for Organisational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities (OLKC), Apr 2012, Valencia, Spain. pp.3

Downloads: (external link)
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00727515/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00727515

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD (hal@ccsd.cnrs.fr).

 
Page updated 2024-12-28
Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00727515