Institutional reflexivity in sociotechnical networks: Participatory analysis and design of cyclic innovation practice in PSS (A11*)

• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research
• Term: from 2016 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 33237764

Moving to PSS makes it necessary to coordinate the patterns of interaction between an increasingly heterogeneous group of actors. This requires 1) adequate forms of organizing innovation practice: the daily work of developing PSS innovations. Innovation practice needs be 2) reviewed and reevaluated repeatedly to enable organizational learning. Emergent forms of organizing cycle-based management have to be 3) reviewed, reevaluated and re-institutionalized as well. This third level of institutional reflexivity is the focus of subproject A11. It aims at identifying appropriate forms of institutional reflexivity and develops a participatory approach to co-design them with relevant stakeholders.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 768: Managing Cycles in Innovation Processes - Integrated Development of Product Service Systems Based on Technical Products
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität München (TUM)
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Sabine Maasen; Professor Dr. Jan-Hendrik Passoth