文档介绍：Technovation 24 (2004) 729–739
ate/technovation
working between stability and political dynamics
C. Koch ∗
Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Building 115, DK 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
Abstract
This contribution views innovation as a social activity of works, using software product development in pany
alliances works as example. works are frequently understood as quite stable arrangements characterised by high
trust among the participants. The aim of the contribution is to challenge and transcend these notions and develop an understanding of
works as an interplay between stable and dynamic elements, where political processes in innovation are much more
than a disruptive and even a counterproductive feature. It reviews the growing number of studies that highlight the political aspect
of innovation. The paper reports on a study of innovation processes conducted within the EU—TSER-programme and a study made
under the banner of management of technology. Intensive field studies in two constellations of enterprises were carried out. One
is a segment-collaboration between a few panies and a software house, the other plex and extensive
work. These studies show how negotiations, shifting positions of players, mobilising stable elements of work,
when developing new ones, and interplays between internal and external collaboration are integral and inevitable in the product
development process. This leads to an understanding of working paradox: in seeking to reduce political uncertainties of one
type, actors engage with others and build collaborative relationships which themselves lead to other and new political issues that
have to be tackled.
2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords: works; Politics; Software innovation
1. Introduction sulting, training and support. The software/IT-industry is
an apparently extremely dynamic and turbulent context.
Innovation has for over a decade been equated with Nevertheless, el