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Innovation Awards: Reward, Recognition, And Ritual

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  • LISA CALLAGHER

    (Management and International Business, University of Auckland Business School, 12 Grafton Road, Auckland, New Zealand)

  • PETER SMITH

    (Management and International Business, University of Auckland Business School, 12 Grafton Road, Auckland, New Zealand)

Abstract

This paper draws on a detailed case study of an innovation awards-giving scheme in a professional service firm to consider the role of discretionary awards in encouraging and displaying innovation capabilities. Because of their association with competition, it might seem that awards are likely tools in pluralistic contexts such as professional service firms where risk-taking and collaboration require deep relationships with clients and with professionals from different specialisations. We intend to show how managers and professionals mobilised around the scheme using the rewarding, recognising, and ritualising of innovation through awards, as a platform to initiate and promote other organisational processes that foster innovation capabilities.

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  • Lisa Callagher & Peter Smith, 2017. "Innovation Awards: Reward, Recognition, And Ritual," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 21(05), pages 1-19, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijimxx:v:21:y:2017:i:05:n:s1363919617400060
    DOI: 10.1142/S1363919617400060
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