Abstract
This study has the purpose of analyzing the implications of the organizational socio-ecosystem on innovation. It begins from the assumption that organizations are open and dynamic concepts of socio-ecosystems composed of technical, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainability departing from growth-based policies and jointly optimized in management strategies for organizational innovation and development that results in improved performance. The method employed is critical analysis and reflection based on the theoretical and empirical review of the literature. It is concluded that the organizational socio ecosystems innovation is the result of multiple organizational factors and environmental dimensions stimulated by the involvement of a diversity of actors, agents, stakeholders, government institutions, research centers and universities, organizational business, among others.
TopIntroduction
The innovation theory began with Schumpeter (1961) who defined it as a new product, production process, or form of organization, such as the acquisition and opening of new markets (Schumpeter, 1934). Advances in organizational theory, the innovation models, and systems, have caused a revolution in approaching innovative organizations since its development in the 1940s to control the boundaries among the group relationships with other sectors.
Modern organizations face innovation environments exceeding the stable state providing goods and services at low costs and good quality but may aspire to adapt to a new stability level after the transition to achieve a permanent transformation. Organizational stability fulfills the role of crosslinking agent leading to learning development skills and innovation at individual and organizational levels. The dimension of socio-ecological innovation is growing in organizations and needs to be in innovation theories and processes.
The organization set is the system of relationships among organizations in their innovation environment (Evan, 1966). Physical environment organizations are an indirect way to provide properties conducive to innovation and entrepreneurship through technology transfer marketing attending the differentiated sources. The sociological theory of classical risk in the social and organizational innovation context is a concept that refers to individual and organizational decisions (Beck, 1986; Luhmann, 1991). Reputational risk management and framing the impacts of socio-ecological innovation issues and risk mitigation develops into an organizational logic of decision-making (Power et al., 2009).
Theoretical and empirical developments in organizational ecology perspective is away from the Trist (1976) approach (De melo, 1997) focusing on traditional concepts of ecology and adapted from Darwinian approach more related to life cycles, natural selection, birth, mortality, organizational growth, and innovation (Madsen & MacKelvey, 1996; Geroski & Mazzucato, 2001). The capacious concept of innovation has spatial implications in the happenings beyond the identification and mapping of networks and clusters of individuals and organizations knowledge intensive.
The sociological theoretical framework supports the innovation concepts and instruments necessary for the implementation, the adaptive planning, and the process of cross-over and inter-organizational domain. The sociological theoretical approach for governance in innovation environments is based on the principle of self-regulation as opposed to hierarchical controls in complex and high-uncertainty organizational contexts. The self-regulation principle sustains the delicate balance of the innovation organizational eco-system and habitat requiring the dynamic negotiation process between the participant’s different units.
The concept of organizational ecology became the subject related to the inter-organizational ecology research interests of Trist (1976) contrasting with trust and concerned with the organizational activities of several organizations in their innovation environment. Organizational ecology is a field created by the interrelationships of organizations that develop in an organizational innovation field. The system is characteristic of the global field that becomes the recentering investigation object and not the individual organization related to its organizational innovation set (Warren, 1967).
Key Terms in this Chapter
Organization: An association of people who relate to each other and use resources of various kinds to achieve certain objectives or goals. An organization is an ordered structure where people with various roles, responsibilities or positions coexist and interact to achieve a particular goal. The organization usually has rules (formal or informal) that specify the position of each person in the structure and the tasks they should carry out.
Socio-ecosystem: System that includes among its component elements and interrelationships those of natural and social systems constituting an integrated whole. Holistic concept that helps to understand and manage the systemic unity of the biosphere.
Socio-ecosystem innovation: An environment made up of various interrelated agencies and functions whose purpose is to promote innovation and from it the economic development of a territory.
Innovation Strategy: It is the process of directing and managing projects based on innovative ideas. The innovation strategy is one that defines the direction of projects of this type. As shocking and disruptive as they may seem, ideas do not get started or run on their own. Its development process is just as important or even more important than the idea itself.
Innovation: A process that modifies existing elements, ideas, or protocols, improving them or creating new ones that have a favorable impact on the market.
Organizational Innovation: It is the search for new organizational designs altering the internal structures of the organization and involves changing the boundaries between the organization and the market.