Management of innovation processes between control and creativity: An exploratory study of tools and practices

Pilotage des processus d’innovation entre contrôle et créativité: étude exploratoire des outils et pratiques

Sophie Bollinger () and Christian Martinez-Diaz
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Sophie Bollinger: BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Christian Martinez-Diaz: BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - AgroParisTech - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement

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Abstract: Faced with a debate in the literature on control vs. creativity, we focus on the use or rejection of management control tools and practices to steer creative activities within innovation processes. With a quantitative study of 169 French companies, we set out to explore the formal management control tools and informal management practices used by these organizations as part of their innovation processes. The results show that organizations need formal tools but also informal practices. While the tools and practices differ as the innovation process progresses, they are similar across organizations and types of innovation.

Keywords: Formal control; Informal practices; Innovation process; Management control; Creativity; Processus d’innovation; Pratiques informelles; Créativité; Contrôle formel; Contrôle de gestion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-10-12
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Published in Marché et Organisations, 2022, 2022/3 (45), pp.111-146. ⟨10.3917/maorg.045.0111⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/maorg.045.0111

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