‘Authoring’ Open Innovation: The Managerial Practices of an Open Innovation Director

Abstract

This chapter asks how we can understand the managerial practices in open innovation, a recently popularized way of organizing innovative work. Open innovation implies opening up the borders of the organization, creating a context where conventional steering and managerial tools no longer apply. Utilizing a collaborative research approach, following an open innovation collaboration over 8 years, this chapter outlines the managerial practices that direct the collaboration. These practices are important for meaning making and identity creation in the collaboration and can be understood as a form of authorship, a continuous intervention strategy to manage, develop and change the organizational context.

Citation

Ollila, S. and Yström, A. (2015), "‘Authoring’ Open Innovation: The Managerial Practices of an Open Innovation Director", Research in Organizational Change and Development (Research in Organizational Change and Development, Vol. 23), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 253-291. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0897-301620150000023006