Abstract
The chapter gives insight into the efforts that are undertaken by innovation management to ensure that diffusion processes can be systematically planned and controlled. Using examples from manufacturing, telecommunications and civil engineering, the chapter shows that the conditions under which innovations spread through business and society are not predetermined. They can be altered in a variety of ways, which enables innovation management to interfere not only with the speed and direction of diffusion processes, but also with its subject matter and the roles of the actors that are involved. In line with the spatial turn of business and management studies, this can be interpreted as a purposive design of the topological structures underlying diffusion models to avoid complexity.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
G. Tarde, The Laws of Imitation (Trans. E. C. Parsons) (Henry Holt, New York, 1903)
Z. Griliches, Hybrid Corn. Econometrica 25, 501–522 (1957)
M. Gort, S. Klepper, Time paths in the diffusion of product innovations. Econ. J. 92, 630–653 (1982)
E.M. Rogers, Diffusion of Innovations, 4th edn. (The Free Press, New York, 1995)
E. Mansfield, Econometrica 29(4), 741–766 (1961)
P.-F. Verhulst, Notice sur la loi que la population poursuit dans son accroissement. Corresp. Math. Phys. 10, 113–121 (1838)
N. Bacaer, A Short History of Mathematical Population Dynamics (Springer, London, 2011)
J.C. Fisher, R.H. Pry, Technol. Forecast. Soc. Chang. 2, 75–88 (1971)
ITU, Mobile cellphone subscriptions, http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/stat/default.aspx. Accessed 31 Jan 2016
S.C. Bhargava, Technol. Forecast. Soc. Chang. 49, 27–33 (1995)
D. Comin, B. Hobijn, E. Rovito, J. Technol. Transf. 33, 187–207 (2008)
F.D. Davis, A Technology Acceptance Model for Empirically Testing New End-User Information Systems: Theory and Results (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, 1986)
F.D. Davis, Perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and user acceptance of information technology. MIS Q. 13(3), 319–340 (1989)
I. Ajzen, Organ. Behav. Hum. Decis. Process. 50(2), 179–211 (1991)
V. Venkatesh, M.G. Morris, G.B. Davis, F.D. Davis, User acceptance of information technology: toward a unified view. MIS Q. 27(3), 425–478 (2003)
J.A. Schumpeter, The Theory of Economic Development (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1934)
M. Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (transl. T. Parssons) (Allen & Unwin, London, 1930)
S. Taylor, A. Spicer, Time for space: A narrative review of research on organizational spaces. Int. J. Manag. Rev. 9(4): 325-346 (2007)
A. Ropo, R. Höykinpuro, Narrating organizational spaces. J. Organ. Change Manag. 30(3), 357-366 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1108/JOCM-10-2016-0208
B. Warf, S. Arias, The Spatial Turn: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge, London, 2008)
H. Lefebvre. The Production of Space (Blackwell, Oxford, 1991)
A. Fritzsche, Engineering determinacy: the exclusiveness of technology and the presence of the indeterminate, in Philosophy and Engineering (Springer, Dordrecht, 2009), pp. 305-312
T. Kelley, J. Littman, The ten faces of innovation: IDEO's strategies for beating the devil's advocate and driving creativity throughout your organization (Doubleday, New York, 2005).
J. Bessant, Riding the Innovation Wave (Emerald, Bingley, 2017)
M.E. Kraft, B.B. Clary, Citizen participation and the Nimby syndrome: public response to radioactive waste disposal. West. Polit. Q. 44(2), 299–328 (1991)
B. Patrick, F. Albrecht, Can we trust AI? An empirical investigation of trust requirements and guide to successful AI adoption. J. Enterpr. Inf. Manag. ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print) (2021). https://doi.org/10.1108/JEIM-06-2020-0233
A. Tiwana, Platform Ecosystems. Aligning Architecture, Governance, and Strategy (Morgan Kaufmann, Walthem, 2014)
A.J. Steur, N. Bayrle, S-Curves in platform-based business: facing the challenge of the tipping point, in Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (2020)
E. Subrahmanian, Y. Reich, S. Krishnan, We Are Not Users: Dialogues, Diversity, and Design (MIT Press. Cambridge, 2020)
N. Gershenfeld, Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop-from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication (Basic Books, New York, 2008)
A. Fritzsche, et al., “Innovating in the Open Lab.” The new potential for interactive value creation across organizational boundaries. Reihe: De Gruyter Studies in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (2020)
U. Eco, La Struttura Assente (Bompiani, Milan, 1972)
P.S. Du Gay, L. Hall, A.K. Janes, H. Madsen, H. Mackay, K. Negus, Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman (Sage, London, 2013)
P. Kroes, Technical artefacts: creations of mind and matter, in Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, vol 6. (Springer, Dordrecht, 2012)
A. Fritzsche, K. Dürrbeck, Technology before engineering: how James Bond films mediate between fiction and reality in the portrayal of innovation. Technovation 92, 93102080. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2019.05.006
A. Fritzsche, Spreading innovations: models, designs and research directions, in Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society (Springer, Cham, 2018), pp. 277–294. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67798-9_14
C. Lüthje, C. Herstatt, The lead user method: an outline of empirical findings and issues for future re-search. R&D Manag. 34(5), 553–568 (2004)
D. Mahr, A. Lievens, Virtual lead user communities: drivers of knowledge creation for innovation. Res. Policy 41(1), 167–177 (2012)
K.R. Lakhani, Broadcast search in problem solving: attracting solutions from the periphery, in Proceedings of the Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology. Technology Management for the Global Future (2006), pp. 2450–2468
J.B.A. Haller, A.C. Bullinger, K.M. Moeslein, Innovation contests—An IT-based tool for innovation management. Bus. Inf. Syst. Eng. 3(2), 103–106 (2011)
A. Reckwitz, The Invention of Creativity: Modern Society and the Culture of the New (Polity Press, Cambridge/ Malden, 2018)
K.M. Moeslein, A. Fritzsche, The evolution of strategic options, actors, tools and tensions in open innovation, in Strategy and Communication for Innovation (Springer, Cham, 2017), pp. 61–76
E. von Hippel, Democratizing Innovation (MIT Press, Cambridge, 2005)
M. Hu, A. Fritzsche, Innovation, the public and the third space: understanding the role of boundary objects in open laboratory work. Technol. Anal. Strat. Manag. 33(10), 1159–1170. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2021.1928627
A. Fritzsche, Making without fabrication: Do-it-yourself activities for IT security in an open lab. Technol. Forecast. Soc. Change 158, 120163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120163
W. Kamlah, P. Lorenzen, Logical Propaedeutic. Pre-school of Reasonable Discourse (University of America Press , Lanham, 1984)
P. Janich, Methodical constructivism. Issues and images in the philosophy of science, in Cohen Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 192, ed. by D. Ginev, R.S. (Springer, Dordrecht, 1997)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2023 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Fritzsche, A. (2023). Innovation Management and the Purposive Design of Diffusion Processes. In: Bunde, A., Caro, J., Chmelik, C., Kärger, J., Vogl, G. (eds) Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05946-9_14
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05946-9_14
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-031-05945-2
Online ISBN: 978-3-031-05946-9
eBook Packages: Physics and AstronomyPhysics and Astronomy (R0)