John Storey & Graeme Salaman 
Managers of Innovation [PDF ebook] 
Insights into Making Innovation Happen

Innovation is increasingly identified as the critical factor
in ensuring economic competitiveness. Departments of state and
quasi-governmental organizations in many countries including,
Austria, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, The Netherlands,
Sweden and the UK, have issued reports and calls to action; but
implementation will continue to be problematic unless the points
made in this book are taken into account.

Drawing on 350 in-depth interviews with senior managers, this
book presents an original theory about the characteristics of
managers in ‘good innovative organizations’ and
‘poor innovative organizations’. It pays close
attention to the attitudes, understandings, assumptions and
interpretations of managers, who are often the ultimate
decision-makers when it comes to innovation. The text is supported
by real-life, internationally-known cases such as Hewlett-Packard,
Zeneca and the BBC, as well as voluntary sector cases such as
Oxfam. It is also enriched by substantial and highly revealing
quotations from senior managers themselves.

Tabella dei contenuti

List of Figures and Tables.

Preface.

About the Authors.

Part I: Introduction.

1. Innovation: Problems and Possibilities.

2. The Current State of Knowledge about Innovation.

Part II: Managers’ Accounts of Innovation.

3. From Tight Control to the Edge of Anarchy: Managing
Innovation in Telecommunications.

4. Managing Creative Workers in an Innovative Way.

5. Contrasting Approaches to Innovation in Engineered
Manufactured Goods.

6. Innovation in the Voluntary Sector.

Part III: Synthesis.

7. Conclusions.

Appendix: Research Methods.

Bibliography.

Index

Circa l’autore

John Storey is Professor of Management at the Open
University Business School and a consultant to leading
corporations. He has authored and edited sixteen books on business,
management and organizations. He is a non-executive director on two
management boards.

Graeme Salaman is Professor of Organizational Studies at
the Open University Business School. He has worked as a consultant
in eight countries for clients such as Sun Microsystems, Willis,
BAT, the government of Ethiopia, Fujitsu, Allianz, Ernst and Young,
Rolls Royce, and Morgan Stanley.