The Art and Science of Everything

It seems that Suchman’s audience in this paper is researchers in the MIS and business strategy fields, but not practitioners in those fields. The rhetoric is fairly readable, but still dense for most non-academics I know.

Big takeaways:

Innovation discourse often binarizes the innovative from the uninnovative (those who can’t keep up, won’t adapt, etc)

innovation discourse often fetishizes visible change, missing the ways innovation, appropriation, and articulation work are “indigenous” to technology use and often unrecognized in organizations –> artful integration
innovation figures a “competitive field of action”