Innovation and Networks: Linking Diffusion and Implementation

Donald Hislop (), Sue Newell (), Harry Scarbrough () and Jacky Swan ()
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Donald Hislop: Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
Sue Newell: Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
Harry Scarbrough: Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
Jacky Swan: Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 1997, vol. 01, issue 04, 427-448

Abstract: This paper examines the appropriation of IT-based innovations within firms. It argues that such innovations represent a challenge to the tendency in the existing literature towards the analytical separation of diffusion and implementation as distinct theoretical domains. In contrast, this paper develops a more transcendent analysis of such innovations by focusing on the cognitive translations and appropriations which link idea generation, diffusion and implementation. This analysis identifies the processes linking wider inter-organisational diffusion networks and intra-firm distributions of expertise as playing a crucial role in the appropriation of innovation. We refer to these as processes ofarticulation: a formulation which leads to a reappraisal of the networking activities of boundary-spanning individuals.

Keywords: Innovation; knowledge; networks; diffusion; articulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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