Idea generation in highly institutionalized fields: A dual process model of ideation

Marine Agogue () and Eva Boxenbaum ()
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Marine Agogue: HEC Montréal - HEC Montréal, CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Eva Boxenbaum: CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Copenhagen Business School - CBS - Copenhagen Business School [Copenhagen]

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Abstract: The early phase of innovation processes in highly institutionalized fields relies on the capabilities of actors to generate new ideas that break with the field frame. Informed by a dominant logic, a field frame shapes collective cognition and can thus prevent the generation of new ideas and block innovation. An important question facing innovation research is thus how actors can generate ideas that break with the field frame in highly institutionalized fields? To answer this question, we draw on insights into dual process modeling from cognitive sciences. Dual process modeling emphasizes the different nature of the conscious (deliberate) and subconscious (implicit) systems involved in ideation. We further elaborate on how these two systems relate to four streams of research that management scholars evoke to model microprocesses of generating new ideas, namely metaphors, conceptual blending, bricolage and innovative design reasoning. We identify metaphors and bricolage as central to the subconscious system, which play an important role in maintaining the field frame, whereas conceptual blending and innovative design reasoning can be instrumental in generating ideas in the conscious system, thereby potentially enabling actors to generate innovative ideas that break with the field frame. Hence, this paper clarifies processes that unfold at the individual level of analysis during innovation activities and proposes leverages for actors to innovate within highly institutionalized fields.

Keywords: Field frame; dual process model; institutional theory; ideation; innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-08-01
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Published in Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2014, Aug 2014, Philadelphia, United States

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