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The chapters of this volume help answer the question: what is the role of controversies in innovation? Being anchored in different theoretical frameworks (organization studies, theories of industrial networks, and infrastructure theory), studies in this volume converge in taking a practice- and process-oriented approach to innovation, and focus on some controversial aspects relating to how innovation (in the forms of a new medical artefact, an IT system, a new organizational solution or a public-driven change/reform) unfolds in practice. While controversies might be perceived as barriers to creative change and a hindrance to innovation, observations reported in this volume produce a somewhat different view – that controversies can also have an energizing role.
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The Editors would like to thank the Research Council of Norway for funding some of the healthcare projects in which they have been involved. Most notably the REACH project (Responsive Architectures in Collaborative Healthcare Services), and the BEPPLO project (227145/O70 Conditions for Change of Practice when Implementing Electronic Health and Care Messages).
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Hoholm, T., La Rocca, A., Aanestad, M. (2018). Introduction: Controversies in Healthcare Innovation – Service, Technology and Organization. In: Hoholm, T., La Rocca, A., Aanestad, M. (eds) Controversies in Healthcare Innovation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55780-3_1
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