Management is a practice that runs on ideas. Unfortunately, ideas that organizations must constantly change are prevalent. This can easily lead to junky ‘Fast Management’: management that is change-obsessed, attention-starved and over-hyped; that binges on mass-produced ideas; and that lacks...

Management is a craft and reflexivity can enhance how this craft is practiced. Alas, organizations seldom provide circumstances that are conducive to reflexivity and, moreover, often individualize responsibility for reflexivity. This paper posits that the clinical practice of medicine provides...

The thesis sets out to study regulatory innovation inside government from the perspective of user innovation and to do so in a way that is critically performative. The empirical subject matter is ‘laboratories’ (Da. Styringslaboratorier): a form of innovation process focused on developing...

What is driving the declining quality of innovation-driven entrepreneurship? In this paper, we argue the growing entrepreneurship industry is an important yet overlooked explanation. This rapidly growing industry has transformed the nature of entrepreneurship and encouraged a particular form of...

This manuscript provides an overview of key theories and themes in Innovation Management research through a series of short essays engaging with seminal texts and critical ideas in the field. Each essay gives an introduction to a particular paper or book and is intended to complement students'...

The current Covid-19 pandemic brings about dramatic challenges for frontline police officers and their organisations. This will, we argue, likely have two implications for frontline learning and innovation. Firstly, the pandemic will surely occasion a surge of frontline improvisation and...

As it becomes apparent that users are an important source in innovation in society and in individual organizations, scholars are realizing that user-directed innovation policy might contribute to improving social welfare. How such policy might be designed, however, is uncertain, as are the costs...

While frontline workers are an important source of organizational innovation, research presents diverging accounts of disclosure and hiding in the frontline innovation process. This study examines why and how frontline workers hide their innovations, drawing on 32 months of multi-site...

Entrepreneurship is surrounded by ideology and its attendant myths. This study examines how this entrepreneurial ideology is propagated in a specific setting, namely university in-cubators. Based on interviews with employees and student-entrepreneurs in the incubator of a Scandinavian...

This conceptual study challenges the assumption that entrepreneurial learning increases entrepreneurial effectiveness. Entrepreneurial learning is filtered through myths about entrepreneurship brought about by the Entrepreneurship Industry. When this is the case, entrepreneurial learning can be...