Evidence-Based Innovation Leadership: Creating Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Organizations

by Jon-Arild Johannessen, Hanne Stokvik

Overview

Creativity in organizations is traditionally considered to be the domain of design, marketing, and research and development. In practical terms, this means that innovation and its implementation tend to become the sole responsibility of a few people rather than becoming part of the everyday pulse of life that runs throughout an organization. As we transition from an industrial society to a global knowledge and innovation economy, we need new breed of leaders and a new understanding of leadership. 

Jon-Arild Johannessen and Hanne Stokvik delve into the necessary conditions for this new type of leadership, which they call “innovation leadership,” and develop a holistic model that includes entrepreneurial action, innovative leadership, creative energy fields within organizations, high-tech wealth creation, and innovation as a business process. Their step-by-step explanations include 50 reader reflection tasks, case letters, and business cases. All of these are predicated upon the principles process-pedagogy, a mode of teaching and learning that encourages readers to collaborate with their peers in order to develop their innovative thinking and communication skills. What this means is that readers of this book not only come to understand innovation leadership but train to become innovation leaders, themselves. 

For its cutting-edge ideas, its clearly structured chapters, and its proactive approach to encouraging readers to implement their learning, Evidence-Based Innovation Leadership is essential reading for researchers, students, practitioners, and anyone else eager to become a better innovation leader in today’s knowledge economy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787696365
Publisher:	Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date:	11/30/2018
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jon-Arild Johannessen is a Professor (full) at Kristiania UniversityCollege and Nord University, Norway, where he specializes in knowledge management and innovation.
Hanne Stokvik is a Ph.D. student at Nord University. She specializes in innovation and entrepreneurship.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD
CHAPTER 1. PROLOGUE: INNOVATION MANAGEMENT 5
CHAPTER 2. ENTREPRENEURIAL MANAGEMENT 
CHAPTER 3. INNOVATION AND VALUE CREATION
CHAPTER 4.  IDEA GENERATION AND INNOVATION
CHAPTER 5. HIGH-TECH VALUE CREATION 
CHAPTER 6. INNOVATION AS A NEW BUSINESS PROCESS
CHAPTER 7.  EPILOGUE: ASPECTS OF A THEORY OF INNOVATION LEADERSHIP 

Editorial Reviews

The authors explain the development of entrepreneurship and innovation leadership throughout organizations to generate creative energy fields. They discuss the development of an innovation leader; the conditions necessary for entrepreneurial action; the elements of innovative leadership; how to develop innovation in organizations through creative energy fields; how to develop high-tech value creation; how an organization can increase the extent of its innovation; and the conditions for developing innovation in established organizations. It includes reflection tasks and case letters based on evidence from research.

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The authors explain the development of entrepreneurship and innovation leadership throughout organizations to generate creative energy fields. They discuss the development of an innovation leader; the conditions necessary for entrepreneurial action; the elements of innovative leadership; how to develop innovation in organizations through creative energy fields; how to develop high-tech value creation; how an organization can increase the extent of its innovation; and the conditions for developing innovation in established organizations. It includes reflection tasks and case letters based on evidence from research.

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