Authors: Andreas Brekke; Synnøve Rubach; Thomas Hoholm
The intention of this paper is firstly to explore theoretically how the actors in the building construction industry can enhance their own and the collective innovation potential through planned learning processes both in interorganizational and intraorganizational settings. The main contribution to the IMP discourse is to supply additional understanding to the IMP network models related to the link between intra- and interorganizational innovation/learning processes.Secondly, we connect this to preliminary empirical data generated from a case study of a regional innovation project related to the construction industry. However, even though the regional innovation project is well up and running, the construction industryis not yet involved in the project. This has made it impossible to study how and in what way the innovation project has commissioned new intraorganizationalactivities in the industrial companies. So far, those involved in the project are mainly consultancy companies and R&D actors. Progress has been steered by activities aiming at producing basis a rehabilitation pilot. A college building has been selected as the potential pilot, but the financing of the actual rehabilitation depends on a positive outcome of a political decision process. So far the case under study could be defined as stuck in the idea structure, decoupled fromthe existing activated structure, i.e. the construction industry (Brunsson, 1989/c2002:Håkansson&Waluszewski, 2002). However, we have related what actually has happened to the proposed model for linking intra- and interorganizational innovation/learning processes and we have speculated on possible further outcomes of the regional innovation project
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Publish Year: 2012
Conference: Rome, Italy (2012)