Annotated Bibliography: Innovation

Wall, P., & Englert, J. (2016). Business Ethnography: Inducing Liminality in Pursuit of Innovation. Journal of Business Anthropology, 1(1), 58-76.

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The purpose of this study is to establish how ethnographic studies influence liminality, and how the methods push for transformation in how researchers, stakeholders, and practitioners are incorporated in ethnography. This study employs a qualitative research methodology through the use of open-ended interviews and observation. The major finding was that ethnography creates a state of high fluidity which drives successful innovation transformations. The major conclusion was that ethnography induces the required liminality to seek innovation.

Tantalo, C., & Paton, B. (2013). Value Innovation through Value Co-creation. Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society, 24(1), 240-251.

This study aims to show the impact of partner cooperation on the value of innovation. A qualitative research method via a case study is employed to achieve the aim. The case study done on Palm revealed that pooling together the functions of several stakeholders helps to enhance value creation for organizations. The conclusion of this study shows that there is an improvement in innovation when multiple stakeholders leverage their resources together.

Tremblay, D.-G., & Yagoubi, A. (2017). From Open Innovation to Crowd Sourcing: A New Configuration of Collaborative Work? American Journal of Industrial and Business Management, 7, 223-244.

The aim of this study was to determine how collaborative and participatory platforms, such as crowdsourcing, drive innovation. A qualitative research methodology was used through participatory observation and comprehensive, semi-directed interviews. A collaborative economy is one of the three key pillars of Sensorica. The collaborative economy is based on a new model that is premised on peer to peer (p2p) connections. The study concludes by showing how projects can be implemented via p2p and open source. Another conclusion is that a collaborative economy has different values.

Carton, G. (2017). A Blue Ocean Strategy for "Blue Ocean Strategy": on Performativity of Strategic Management. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017(1), 17635.

The aim of this study is to examine how the concept of "Blue Ocean Strategy" is utilized by business management to create new niches in the market. A quantitative research methodology was used. This study came up with a major finding of the concept of performativity especially a new form of this concept; self-performativity. The major conclusion from this study is that the concept of performativity can be used improve management research. The study also concludes that strategic management is crucial for innovation.

Brunswicker, S., & Vanhaverbeke, W. (2011). Beyond Open Innovation in Large Enterprises: How Do Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises(SMEs) Open Up to External Innovation Sources. SSRN Electronic Journal, 1-38.

This paper aims at analyzing how SMEs are involved in open innovation strategies. A quantitative research methodology was used which involved a survey of a benchmarking database. One of the major findings was that SMEs deliberately prefer external innovation inputs. Another finding from this paper was that different search strategies would affect innovation in different ways. The major conclusion of this paper was that a search strategy that is widespread and driven by demand could enhance the probability of SMEs to develop innovations.