Constructing Enterprise Level Knowledge: Exploratory Methods and Transforming Contexts

Anne Lorentzen

Chapter 5 in Fieldwork in Transforming Societies, 2004, pp 78-96 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract One research field that has turned to the study of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is that of innovation studies and my research has been part of this trend. I started to research industrial and technological development in Hungary at the beginning of the 1990s and later in Poland. For obvious reasons, theories and frameworks in innovation research were at the outset based on Western experiences. The research field in general is characterised by a tradition of macro-level and quantitative statistical approaches (Nelson, 1993; Lundvall, 1992; Kim and Nelson, 2000), which have also been followed when dealing with innovation in CEE (Fritsch and Brezinski, 1999; Hirschhausen and Bitzer, 2000). This chapter argues that the construction of knowledge of innovation in CEE requires open, flexible and exploratory research methods as well as highly critical use of existing theory. It requires the creation of knowledge of the micro-level, where decisions on innovation are taken. More focus should be put on the development of new insights than on the replication of known ones.

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Total Quality Management; Research Interview; Innovation Study; Western Theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230522701_5

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