Towards a dialogic management of cognitive competence

Aline Dupouy (1, 2) , Nimal Jayaratna (1) , Jean Michel Larrasquet (1, 2) , Véronique Pilnière (1, 2)

1 ESTIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
2 CREG - Centre de recherche et d'études en gestion

In this paper we examine the nature of the competences needed for promoting innovation and change. Taking our experiences as the starting point, we examined the literature and interviewed managers and those responsible for innovation in enterprises and discovered that our research findings contradict the simplistic view of innovation facilitation and management material in the work place. Our research suggests that for innovation to take place two contradictory notions, the order principle and the disorder principle, have to be engaged at the same time. As a philosophy, the Positivistic epistemology is unable to handle these contradictions. Therefore we suggest the use of Morin's “dialogy” as a way of managing these contradictions essential for innovation.

Mots clés: "Innovation and change"; "order and disorder"; "management"; "contradictions"; Innovation and change; "dialogy"; order and disorder; management; contradictions; dialogy

Domaines: Gestion et management

Aline Dupouy, Nimal Jayaratna, Jean Michel Larrasquet, Véronique Pilnière. Towards a dialogic management of cognitive competence. ERIMA, European Research on Innovation and Management Alliance, Mar 2008, France, France. pp.341-348. ⟨hal-00445519⟩