How (not) to innovate towards sustainable enterprise models:
Lessons from an explanatory case study

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How (not) to innovate towards sustainable enterprise models: Lessons from an explanatory case study

GATARIK, Eva and Viktor KULHAVÝ

Basic information

Original name

How (not) to innovate towards sustainable enterprise models: Lessons from an explanatory case study

Authors

GATARIK, Eva (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Viktor KULHAVÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Bari, IFKAD 2015 10th International Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics. Culture, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: connecting the knowledge dots, p. 2253-2262, 10 pp. 2015

Publisher

Institute for Knowledge Asset Management

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

50600 5.6 Political science

Country of publisher

Italy

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

electronic version available online

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14560/15:00083309

Organization unit

Faculty of Economics and Administration

ISBN

978-88-96687-07-9

UT WoS

000357265200177

Keywords (in Czech)

udržitelnost; znalostní management; LIR (Jazyk-Infromace-Realita); explanatorní případová studie; filosofie a teorie vědy

Keywords in English

sustainability; knowledge management; LIR (Language-Information-Reality); explanatory case study; philosophy and theory of science

Změněno: 25/1/2016 14:09, Mgr. Ing. Viktor Kulhavý, Ph.D., MSLS

Abstract

ORIG CZ

V originále

Purpose – This contribution identifies and addresses two lacunae in research that may be considered essential when addressing enterprise sustainability. Firstly, it seeks to provide a theoretical explanation for, and justification of, the reasons why successful processes in social and individual experience, as well as activity within an enterprise, need to be supplemented by a “quasi-theoretical” understanding of what individuals are doing (viewed both from inside and outside) when they act upon their experience in the interests of sustainability. Further, it elucidates the way in which theoretical explanations and their practical application/projection into reality work in general together. The central aim is, however, to provide both empirical insights resting upon experiential success derived from a case study and a sort of theoretical foundation provided by philosophy and theory of science. As a result, we will provide means for decision support in an explanatory (and not just descriptive) way to understand and improve evolutionary processes influencing how to integrate the idea of sustainability into an innovative modelling of enterprises. Design/methodology/approach – A short review of related research traditions is provided, followed by both a conceptual framework LIR (Language-Information-Reality) that rests upon research in the philosophy and theory of science, and empirical evidence both to challenge unreflective or – in the Socratic sense – “unexamined” organizational life intended to innovate towards sustainable enterprise models. Originality/value – Research related to enterprise sustainability has expanded in recent years, making room in the “representational” approach to accommodate an “enactive” or rather performative one. However, it appears that at the point of this integration a theoretical explanation and justification in organizational and management research is still absent. This contribution seeks therefore to explicate the above-mentioned model-theoretic systemic framework of analysis LIR and point out the many ways in which the mutual limitations inherent in the two approaches mentioned above clash with respect to examining organizational life, and are in need of interaction if they are to avoid misapplication and overexploitation of organizational knowledge. Practical implications – The proposed theoretical extension and explanation facilitates understanding and controlled reproducibility of those events that are considered and accepted as examples of sustainable success within an enterprise, economic or otherwise.

In Czech

Článek prostřednictvím případové studie dokumentuje využití modelu LIR (language-information-reality) při analýze problému v organizaci. Ukazuje také na teoretické limity, které jsou spjaty s paradigmatem reprezentacionalismu.

Links

MUNI/A/1142/2014, interní kód MU

Name: Výzkum organizační epistemologie vysoce spolehlivých organizací (High reliability organizations) (Acronym: Epistemologie HROs)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Citovat

GATARIK, Eva and Viktor KULHAVÝ. How (not) to innovate towards sustainable enterprise models: Lessons from an explanatory case study. Online. In Spender, J. C., Schiuma, G., Albino V. IFKAD 2015 10th International Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics. Culture, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: connecting the knowledge dots. Bari: Institute for Knowledge Asset Management, 2015, p. 2253-2262. ISBN 978-88-96687-07-9.

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GATARIK, Eva and Viktor KULHAVÝ. How (not) to innovate towards sustainable enterprise models: Lessons from an explanatory case study. Online. In Spender, J. C., Schiuma, G., Albino V. \textit{IFKAD 2015 10th International Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics. Culture, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: connecting the knowledge dots}. Bari: Institute for Knowledge Asset Management, 2015, p.~2253-2262. ISBN~978-88-96687-07-9.

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