Innovation in Complex Products and Systems: Implications for Project-Based Organizing

In this chapter we put projects at the centre stage of firms' activities – i.e. product and process innovation, strategy formulation and implementation, capability building and learning, organizational structure and design, and systems integration (the capability to combine diverse knowledge ba...

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Published inProject-Based Organizing and Strategic Management Vol. 28; pp. 3 - 26
Main Authors Davies, Andrew, Brady, Tim, Prencipe, Andrea, Hobday, Michael
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Emerald Group Publishing Limited 12.10.2011
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Summary:In this chapter we put projects at the centre stage of firms' activities – i.e. product and process innovation, strategy formulation and implementation, capability building and learning, organizational structure and design, and systems integration (the capability to combine diverse knowledge bases and physical components into functioning systems). Based on the findings of a 10-year research programme into firms producing high-value capital goods – known as complex products and systems (CoPS) – we draw out conceptual insights about project organizing that can inform and contribute to the development and reformulation of more universally applicable formal theories of strategic management and organization.
ISBN:9781780521923
1780521928
ISSN:0742-3322
DOI:10.1108/S0742-3322(2011)0000028005