Organizational capabilities for responsible innovation

Jilde Garst

Chapter 65 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Innovation Management, 2025, pp 254-256 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: To innovate responsibly, an organization needs to absorb knowledge of the values and norms in society and integrate these values into the design of its innovations. This requires not only specific skills at the team level but also capabilities at the organizational level. Three organizational capabilities have been identified as: a) value receptivity in which the organization actively searches for new insights into the values and norms; b) value reflexivity as the internal reflection on value priorities and translation; and c) value articulation as the level of diffusion of values, norms, and design requirements in the organization. Developing these capabilities supports an organization in guiding its innovations to societally desirable and ethically acceptable outcomes.

Keywords: Responsible innovation; Value sensitive design; Absorptive capacity; Values; Norms; Organizational capabilities; Dynamic capabilities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035306442
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