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Strategic renewal as a duality of deliberate change hinging on persistence: How contextual strategies matter - The case of a rural industrial SME
Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, JIBS, Business Administration. Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, JIBS, Media, Management and Transformation Centre (MMTC).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7517-2988
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-54362OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-54362DiVA, id: diva2:1588901
Available from: 2021-08-30 Created: 2021-08-30 Last updated: 2021-08-30
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1. Managing contexts for innovation and renewal: Strategies of incumbent firms in traditional manufacturing industries
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Managing contexts for innovation and renewal: Strategies of incumbent firms in traditional manufacturing industries
2021 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Innovation is important for established firms (i.e., incumbents) in traditional manufacturing industries (TMIs) to continuously survive and thrive. While internal factors often receive attention, different factors external to these firms enable and hinder the creation and realisation of novel products and processes. Firms in TMIs thus need to strategically deal with their outer contexts. How they do so in the post-industrial era and why they act in particular ways remain unclear in extant innovation studies. This dissertation offers nuanced explanations of the strategies of incumbents in TMIs, regarding managing contexts for innovation and renewal.

This dissertation investigates three cases involving firms in five different TMIs in Sweden. It shows that even firms that are expected to be the most inert display a proactive reorientation by developing radical and sustainable technologies that potentially revolutionise their industries and drive societal change. Innovative firms simultaneously manage multiple external factors such as societal norms and regulations, diverse networks, and place-based (lack of) resources by leveraging, shaping and fostering the alignment of those factors to protect and empower innovations. A core take-away for innovation managers is to “work in but also work out!”

Abstract [sv]

Innovation är viktigt för etablerade företag i traditionella tillverkningsindustrier (TMIs) för att fortsätta att överleva och utvecklas. Samtidigt som interna faktorer ofta uppmärksammas, både möjliggörs och hindras förverkligandet av nya produkter och processer av olika externa faktorer. Företag i traditionella tillverkningsindustrier behöver därför hantera sin yttre kontext strategiskt. Inom innovationsforskningen är det fortfarande oklart hur företagen i den postindustriella eran gör detta och varför de gör som de gör. Denna avhandling framför nyanserade förklaringar till de etablerade företagens strategier gällande hantering av kontexter för innovation och förnyelse.

Avhandlingen undersöker tre fall som inkluderar företag i fem olika TMIs i Sverige. Den visar att även de företag som förväntas vara mest oföränderliga arbetar proaktivt med omorientering genom att utveckla genomgripande och hållbar teknik med potential att förändra industrin och driva samhällsförändringar. Innovativa företag hanterar samtidigt flera externa faktorer som samhällsnormer och regelverk, olika nätverk och platsbaserade resurser (eller brist på resurser) genom att utnyttja, forma, och sträva efter komplementaritet mellan, faktorerna i syfte att skydda och stärka innovation. En kärnfull take-away för innovationschefer är att “arbeta inåt, men också arbeta utåt!”

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Jönköping: Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, 2021. p. 119
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JIBS Dissertation Series, ISSN 1403-0470 ; 146
Keywords
incumbent firms, traditional manufacturing industries (TMIs), strategy, contexts, innovation, renewal
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Business Administration
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urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-54366 (URN)978-91-7914-009-0 (ISBN)
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2021-09-30, B1033 and on Zoom Webinar, Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping, 15:00 (English)
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