ROUND THE CLOCK: COLLABORATIVE WORK IN THE INTERNATIONAL MOULDING INDUSTRY

Joao Vieira da Cunha and Miguel Pina E Cunha ()
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Miguel Pina E Cunha: Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Economia, Rua Marquês de Fronteira, 20, 1099-038 Lisboa–, Portugal

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2001, vol. 05, issue 01, 49-71

Abstract: This case presents the development of an administrative innovation aimed at introducing an organisational arrangement that allows new product development and innovation to occur around the clock. This innovation had an underlying plan that was swept away by a wave of unforeseeable events, forcing its participants to improvise to attain their goals. We show how this process evolves around four stages of increasing structure, and to argue that innovation and creativity can, in fact, happenbecauseof rules and norms and notin spiteof them.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1142/S1363919601000270

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