Realising the Potential of the Network Perspective in Innovation Studies
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Even a cursory review of the various business and management sub-disciplines in the post-war period reveals the ebb and flow of a whole series of management and organisational innovations: the 1980s heralded the rise of ‘Quality Circles’, ‘Portfolio Management’, MBWA (‘Management by Wandering Around’), and the focus on ‘Excellence’, to name but a few; in the 1990s the fashionable themes shifted to ‘Downsizing’, ‘TQM’ (Total Quality Management), ‘BPR’ (Business Process Engineering), the ‘Learning Organisation’, and the ‘Virtual Organisation’. Carter and Conway (2000: 1) are sceptical about the motivation and utility surrounding the packaging and re-packaging of such managerial and organisational panaceas:
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