Table Of ContentPALGRAVE DEBATES IN
BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
Debating Innovation
Perspectives and Paradoxes
of an Idealized Concept
Edited by
Alf Rehn
Anders Örtenblad
Palgrave Debates in Business and Management
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Department of Working Life and Innovation
School of Business and Law
University of Agder
Grimstad, Norway
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Alf Rehn • Anders Örtenblad
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Debating Innovation
Perspectives and Paradoxes
of an Idealized Concept
Editors
Alf Rehn Anders Örtenblad
Department of Innovation and Technology Department of Working Life and Innovation
University of Southern Denmark School of Business and Law
Odense, Denmark University of Agder
Grimstad, Norway
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Contents
Part I Innovation: Where We Are and How We Got Here 1
1 I ntroduction 3
Alf Rehn and Anders Örtenblad
2 Innovation, Labor Displacement, and the Role of the
State: The Classical Economists’ Perspective 13
Samuel Hollander
3 I nnovation Ethics 33
Thomas Taro Lennerfors and Kiyoshi Murata
Part II Some General Critiques of Innovation 55
4 Creative Continuation: An Alternative Perspective on
Innovation and Society 57
Jon P. Knudsen
5 Image, Imperatives, and Ideology in the Innovation
Industry 77
Alf Rehn
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Part III For and Against Business Model Innovation 101
6 In Search for the Holy Grail in Management Research:
A Review of the Benefits of Business Model Innovation 103
Thomas Clauss
7 A Critique of Business Model Innovation 123
La Ode Sabaruddin and Fathiro Hutama Reksa Putra
Part IV For and Against Social Innovation 139
8 The Pros of Social Innovation 141
Luis Rubalcaba and Ernesto Solano
9 A gainst Social Innovation 163
Nidhi Srinivas
Part V For and Against Service Innovation 181
10 For Service Innovation: Some Arguments in Favor of
Services and Innovation in Services 183
Faridah Djellal, Camal Gallouj, and Faïz Gallouj
11 Against Service Innovation: Why Service Innovation Is
Not Sustainable 203
Lars Witell, Hannah Snyder, and Per Carlborg
Part VI For and Against Open Innovation 221
12 F or Open Innovation 223
Lykke Margot Ricard and Sergio Jofre
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13 What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Reflections on
Potential Challenges of Open Innovation 241
Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen, Ioana Stefan, and Jialei Yang
Part VII The Road Forward from Here 261
14 What Does It Take? Feminist Readings of Innovation
Studies 263
Sine N. Just and Sara Dahlman
15 Non-Western Perspectives on Innovation 283
Abhinav Chaturvedi
16 Innovation, AI, and Materiality: Learning from the Arts 319
Astrid Huopalainen
17 Peace Piece: On the Machiavellian Moment in
Organizational Innovation 339
Karl Palmås and Stefan Molnar
18 The Animal Spirits of Innovation: On Companion
Species, Creativity, and Olly the Airport Cat 357
Damian O’Doherty
19 The Future(s) of Innovation 389
Alf Rehn
A fterword 413
I ndex 415
Notes on Contributors
Per Carlborg is Assistant Professor at Örebro University School of
Business. His research interest covers service innovation, business mar-
kets, circular economy, network, and sustainability. He also conducts
research on business model innovation in SMEs. He has published in
journals such as Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, Service
Industries Journal, and Industrial Marketing Management.
Abhinav Chaturvedi is a passionate young researcher, who brings with
him more than a decade of corporate work experience, and a fellow from
India’s prestigious institution XLRI—Xavier School of Management,
Jamshedpur. He has a keen eye for detail in the field of Innovation and
Entrepreneurship. He is an author of a popular title on Customer
Relationship Management—An Indian perspective.
Thomas Clauss is Full Professor and Chair in Corporate Entrepre-
neurship and Digitalization in Family Business at Witten/Herdecke
University, Germany, and Adjunct Professor of Business Model Innovation
at University of Southern Denmark. His research centers around digitali-
zation and business model innovation in family business. He has pub-
lished in journals such as Journal of Management Studies and Long Range
Planning and is co-editor of International Journal of Entrepreneurial
Behavior and Research.
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Sara Dahlman Sara Dahlman is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department
of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University. She has a theoretical
and methodological interest in finding alternative way of studying and
hence supporting, organizing for more sustainable futures. Her previous
work has focused on the potential of sustainable investing and algorith-
mic innovation to deliver such futures.
Faridah Djellal is Professor of Economics, former Dean of the Faculty
of Economics and Sociology, and member of the Academic Council of
Lille University (France). She is President of the “Innovation, Labor”
Committee at the French National Research Agency and a member of
RESER (European Association for Research on Services). She is author or
co-author of more than 90 articles in journals and books and of 11 books.
Camal Gallouj is Professor of Business Management at the University
of Sorbonne Paris Nord (France). He is Associate Editor of the European
Review of Service Economics and Management. His main field of research
is service management with a thematic focus on innovation dynamics
and a sectoral focus on retailing. He is the author of 15 books on
these topics.
Faïz Gallouj is Professor of Economics at Lille University (France) and
Editor-in-Chief of the European Review of Service Economics and
Management. He has authored or co-authored 175 articles published in
scientific journals and books and 40 research reports for various national
and international institutions (including the OECD and the European
Commission). He is also author, co-author, or editor of 19 books on
services and innovation.
Samuel Hollander is University Professor Emeritus of Economics,
University of Toronto, an Officer in the Order of Canada, and a Fellow
of the Royal Society of Canada. His A History of Utilitarian Ethics, and
his Immanuel Kant and Utilitarian Ethics have recently appeared, and he
is now working on Hegel on Ethics, the State, and Public Policy.
Astrid Huopalainen is Senior Lecturer in Organization and
Management at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Her research focuses
on posthuman theorizing, gendered practices of work, esthetics, embodi-
