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Opening Up and Closing Down: The Interpretive Repertoires of Leading Innovation

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Summary, in English

The article argues for a greater attention to be given to discursive approaches to the leadership of innovation through proposing a variant of Potter and Wetherell’s concept of interpretative repertoires. Drawing upon empirical material from a case study of managers engaged in R & D activities at a multimedia company, the study illustrates how the talk and thought of leadership reveals the contrasting discursive resources and interpretative repertoires underpinning the leadership of innovation. The article proposes, illustrates and develops six interpretative repertoires for leading the practices and processes of innovation. These are informed by six images or root metaphors: creating, challenging, focusing, selling, linking and travelling. In turn, these prompt leadership practices that either encourage variety, secure agreement or a combination of the two.

Publishing year

2015

Language

English

Publication/Series

International Journal of Innovation Management

Volume

19

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

World Scientific Publishing

Topic

  • Business Administration

Keywords

  • innovation
  • leadership
  • idea generation
  • idea implementation
  • interpretative repertoires

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1757-5877