Contextual Innovation Management : Adapting Innovation Processes to Different Situations (Hardcover)

List of Figures, Tables and Boxes Preface Chapter 1 Generations of innovation management 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Finding generations of innovation management 1.3 The generations of innovation management 1.4 From generations to co-existing approaches of innovation management 1.5 Concluding remarks Chapter 2 Why success factors are not successful 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Searching for success factors 2.3 Reviewing success factors 2.4 Concluding remarks Chapter 3 From contingency to contextual 3.1 Introduction: contingency theory 3.2 Contingency-theory and research strategies 3.3 Contextual innovation management, management theory and management practice 3.4 Applications of contingency-theory in management science 3.5 Applications of contingency-theory in innovation management 3.6 From contingency to contextual innovation management 3.7 Contextual innovation management and social constructivism 3.8 Concluding remarks Chapter 4 The theory of contextual innovation management 4.1 Introduction: from environment to context 4.2 Contextual factors: the core of a theory of contextual innovation management 4.3 The structure of a theory of contextual innovation management 4.4 Concluding remarks Chapter 5 A process for contextual innovation management 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The operationalization of contextual innovation management 5.3 Creating a vision on the company’s context 5.4 Developing the company’s general contextual innovation approach 5.5 Apply the contextual innovation management approach to a specific innovation process 5.6 Concluding remarks Chapter 6 Contextual innovation management in action * 6.1 Case Philips S&B: making the fuzzy front more efficient 6.2 Case: Boskalis/SMIT: integrating different innovation approaches 6.3 Case DSM Food Specialities: shortening the time-to-market 6.4 Case Stedin: from product-innovation to service-innovation 6.5 Concluding remarks Chapter 7 Organizing, implementing and　assessing　contextual innovation management 7.1. Introduction 7.2　Organizing contextual innovation management 7.3 Implementing contextual innovation management 7.4. Introduction 7.5　Concluding remarks Epilogue References Author Biographies Index