Disentangling dynamics of the innovation journey : a becoming perspective (original) (raw)

The ability to translate creative ideas into innovations that sustain organizational growth is vital for the success and survival of firms (Anderson, et al., 2014; Slater, et al., 2014; Keupp, et al., 2012; Crossan & Apaydin, 2010). Whilst innovation, which we define as "“invention, development, and implementation of new ideas” (Garud, et al., 2013, p. 776) by people within an organisational context, are beneficial for both organizations and societies at large, undertaking concrete effort to transform a creative idea into an innovation in reality is perhaps the most vexing problem facing managers (Van de Ven , 2017; Garud, et al., 2017). Yet, since innovation research has largely focussed on innovation as an output rather than on the process of innovating itself, the dynamics of the messy, non-linear, organizational processes through which innovations are managed in practice, remains under-theorised and hence poorly understood (Fortwengel, et al., 2017; Van de Ven , 2017; Garud...