Innovation-as-Practice : The Communicational Practices of Board Meetings and their Role in Innovating

Sibylle Duchaine (1, 2)

1 ONIRIS - École nationale vétérinaire, agroalimentaire et de l'alimentation Nantes-Atlantique
2 LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique

The aim of this paper is to identify, explain, and analyze the communicational micro practices that promote innovation in everyday life. It aims to precisely define communicational practices, modalities of interaction between actors, and to analyze their role, in daily life, in innovating. Insofar as innovating born of everyday communicational practices of many actors, we propose to identify and analyze them in the meetings because they offer privileged access to both practices and practitioners of innovation. In the following sections, we develop our conceptual background: we specify our choice to define meetings as the preferred analytical framework to study innovating. Then, after describing our research methodology, we analyze and define, from a microscopic perspective, the communicational practices of the board meetings in a corrugated packaging manufacturer. Finally, we discuss the specific characteristics of these meetings and their role in innovating.

Mots clés: Innovating; Innovation-as-practice; Meetings; innovation-as-practice; meetings; communicational practices; organizational identity; Communicational practices; Organizational identity

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Sibylle Duchaine. Innovation-as-Practice : The Communicational Practices of Board Meetings and their Role in Innovating. EGOS, Jul 2011, Gothenburg, Sweden. ⟨hal-04570483⟩