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The Innovator’s Dilemma The Innovator’s Dilemma
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An Undertheorized Dimension of Post-Fordist Flexible Accumulation An Undertheorized Dimension of Post-Fordist Flexible Accumulation
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The Book’s Argument The Book’s Argument
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Commodity Fetishism, “Unmet Consumer Needs,” and the Production of the Future Commodity Fetishism, “Unmet Consumer Needs,” and the Production of the Future
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The Ethnographic Setting and Fieldwork The Ethnographic Setting and Fieldwork
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Outline of Chapters Outline of Chapters
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“How Did You Get from the Village Vanguard to Wall Street?” “How Did You Get from the Village Vanguard to Wall Street?”
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Contexts and Histories: From Designing Predictability to Incorporating Uncertainty Contexts and Histories: From Designing Predictability to Incorporating Uncertainty
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Incorporating Jazz Improvisation Incorporating Jazz Improvisation
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Introduction The Ubiquity and Ambiguity of Routinized Business Innovation
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Published:February 2019
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Abstract
This chapter introduces the main question the book addresses, namely how to explain the rise in innovation’s popularity together with the mounting suspicion that innovation has become a catch-all phrase that is devoid of meaning. It situates the rise of business innovation in the context of post-Fordist flexible accumulation and argues that the study of business innovation provides an opportunity to contribute to critical studies of capitalism as a future-producing and future-oriented social configuration with respect to three main concerns in such studies: commodity fetishism, “unmet” consumer needs, and the production of the future. The chapter’s first half presents the book’s main argument, the ethnographic setting and fieldwork, and the outline of chapters. Its second half provides a detailed analysis of one historical context that explains the emergence of business innovation as a key dimension of the contemporary business world. It argues that throughout the twentieth century organizational and management theorists gradually began to conceptualize organizations as entities whose logic encompasses uncertainty as a natural component that provides a crucial resource for their survival, and that a number of organizational theorists consequently turned to the creative arts in general, and jazz music in particular, in search for adequate organizational models.
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