Innovation-by-numbers: an autoethnography of innovation as violence

Liu, H; Pechenkina, E

Innovation-by-numbers: an autoethnography of innovation as violence

Liu, H

Pechenkina, E

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Culture and Organization, 2019, 25 (3), pp. 178 - 188
Issue Date:: 2019-05-27

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dc.contributor.author	Liu, H https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4211-0932	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Pechenkina, E	en_US
dc.date.issued	2019-05-27	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Culture and Organization, 2019, 25 (3), pp. 178 - 188	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1475-9551	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/114769
dc.description.abstract	© 2017, © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article offers an account of a university exercise in ‘innovation’ to illustrate how innovation discourses and processes can be a vehicle for violence in organisations. Presented as two narratives of the same event told from different perspectives, our stories of a curriculum redesign workshop explore the ways innovation became a form of symbolic capital that prompted struggles of control and compliance among individual staff. Schemes of managerial dominance were then in turn individuated, while the assault of innovation became institutionalised and ultimately shielded from critical interrogation. In presenting these accounts, we seek to challenge the rising dominance of innovation as something vital to economic growth and social needs, highlighting instead how its romanticisation is highly problematic.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Culture and Organization	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/14759551.2017.1361422	en_US
dc.title	Innovation-by-numbers: an autoethnography of innovation as violence	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.citation.volume	25	en_US
utslib.for	MD Multidisciplinary	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business/Management Discipline
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© 2017, © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article offers an account of a university exercise in ‘innovation’ to illustrate how innovation discourses and processes can be a vehicle for violence in organisations. Presented as two narratives of the same event told from different perspectives, our stories of a curriculum redesign workshop explore the ways innovation became a form of symbolic capital that prompted struggles of control and compliance among individual staff. Schemes of managerial dominance were then in turn individuated, while the assault of innovation became institutionalised and ultimately shielded from critical interrogation. In presenting these accounts, we seek to challenge the rising dominance of innovation as something vital to economic growth and social needs, highlighting instead how its romanticisation is highly problematic.

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