Networks, Knowledge and Power: Decision Making, Politics and the Process of Innovation

Donald Hislop, Sue Newell, Harry Scarbrough, Jacky Swan · 2000 · Technology Analysis and Strategic Management

Summary. This paper examines how organizations adopt Enterprise Resource Planning systems, revealing that innovation adoption is fundamentally political. Networks and knowledge prove inseparable because tacit knowledge requires relationship-building to access and use. The research shows that formal authority doesn't automatically translate to power, and that networks and knowledge function as both practical tools for accessing information and political instruments that actors deploy to advance their interests.

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  title   = {Networks, Knowledge and Power: Decision Making, Politics and the Process of Innovation},
  author  = {Donald Hislop and Sue Newell and Harry Scarbrough and Jacky Swan},
  journal = {Technology Analysis and Strategic Management},
  year    = {2000},
  doi     = {10.1080/713698478},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1080/713698478}
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10.1080/713698478

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innovation-theory, innovation-networks, general-innovation

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2026-04-28