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Making Sense of Innovation in the Built Environment

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This book offers a new understanding of innovation in the built environment. The ways meaning of innovation is constructed has important implications for policymakers, project managers, academics and students. Through a longitudinal research study into innovation in firms and projects, the book addresses some key themes, challenges and concerns that practitioners face when managing innovation in the built environment. It examines the key drivers for innovation in the construction, engineering and infrastructure firms and projects. In particular, the questions of how and why innovation becomes recognised and sustained over time are explored. Different theoretical perspectives are considered to explain different aspects of innovation. This includes sensemaking, organisational and individual identity, storytelling and narration.

The book has practical implications for how organisational activities become labelled as 'innovation' and for what purpose. It shares some lived stories of innovation as mobilised by practising managers. The connectivity between the formal narratives of innovation at the policy level and the lived narratives of innovation articulated by practitioners is explored. Combining the theory with practice, this book presents an insightful view on the implications of innovation in the business world today.

List of contents

Chapter 1 What does innovation mean?

Chapter 2 Labelling activities as innovations

Chapter 3 Constructing identities and images as innovative

Chapter 4 The narrative turn in innovation studies

Chapter 5 Innovation and storytelling

Chapter 6 The evolution of innovation narratives in the built environment

Chapter 7 Innovation leadership

Chapter 8 Employees' motivation to contribute innovative ideas

Chpter 9 Lived stories about innovation

Chapter 10 Leading innovation in megaprojects

About the author

Natalya Sergeeva is an Associate Professor in the Management of Projects at the Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, University College London, UK.

Summary

The book provides a detailed examination of the drivers for innovation in construction, engineering and infrastructure organisations. In particular, the questions of how and why innovation becomes recognised and sustained over time are explored.

Product details

Authors Natalya Sergeeva, Natalya (The Bartlett School of Construc Sergeeva, Natalya (The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management Sergeeva
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd.
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.06.2021
 
EAN 9781032094182
ISBN 978-1-0-3209418-2
No. of pages 162
Series Spon Research
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture
Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches

Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Decision-Making & Problem Solving, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Culture, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Strategic Planning, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Information Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Project Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Communication / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, Knowledge Management, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Quality Control, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Operations Research, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management Science, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Construction / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Development, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Structural Adjustment, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Project Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Infrastructure, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Operations Research, ARCHITECTURE / Project Management, Technology: general issues, Business communication & presentation, Organizational theory & behaviour, Management: leadership & motivation, Project management, business strategy, Office & workplace, Management & management techniques, Research & development management, Economic systems & structures, Personnel & human resources management, Finance & accounting, Management decision making, Production engineering, Operational research, Engineering: general, Building construction & materials, Industrial quality control, Building construction and materials, Architecture: professional practice, Construction & heavy industry, Research and development management, Construction and heavy industry

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