Self-organizing innovation networks, mobile knowledge carriers and diasporas: insights from a pioneering boutique hotel chain
Self-organizing innovation networks, mobile knowledge carriers and diasporas: insights from a pioneering boutique hotel chain
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DOI：
10.1093/jeg/lbs021
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发表时间：
2012-09
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
M. Lowe;Allan M. Williams;G. Shaw;K. Cudworth
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作者：
M. Lowe;Allan M. Williams;G. Shaw;K. Cudworth
本文提供了英国的先锋精品连锁酒店，酒店杜文（HduV）的见解，探讨服务业内的自我形成的创新网络的动态。特别是，它侧重于HduV的衍生和后续企业的散居地，研究创新和创造力的性质，以及人员流动性在知识转移和这种网络的动态重新配置中的重要作用。通过使用参与式的“研究方法”和“密切对话”，它提供了一个了解在一个研究不足的行业创新过程的贡献-利用“散居”的概念来概括这些过程的时间性和空间性。特别是，它探讨了各种重新使用和重新组合的组织过程和价值主张，定义了创新性质的原始链，显示这些重新组合是如何至关重要的企业家性质的散居网络周围HduV的发展。
This paper provides insights from the UK’s pioneering boutique hotel chain, Hotel du Vin (HduV) to explore the dynamics of self-forming innovation networks within the service sector. In particular, it focuses on HduV’s diaspora of spin-off and follow-on enterprises, examining the nature of innovation and creativity, and the significant role of human mobility in knowledge transfer and in the dynamic reconfiguration of such networks. Through the use of participative’ research methods and ‘close dialogue’, it provides a contribution to understanding processes of innovation in an under-researched industry—utilizing the concept of ‘diasporas’ to encapsulate the temporality and spatiality of those processes. In particular, it explores the various re-uses and re-combinations of the organizational processes and value propositions that defined the innovatory nature of the original chain, showing how those re-combinations were critical to the entrepreneurial nature of the diasporic network which developed around HduV.