Networks, Knowledge and Power: Decision Making Politics and the Process of Innovation Donald Hislop, Sue Newell, Harry Scarbrough, Jacky Swan Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, CV4 7AL (telephone: 00 44 1203 522310, fax: 00 44 1203 524965, e-mail: wbsrbdh@wbs.warwick.ac.uk) Paper submitted to 1st International Conference on Critical Management Studies University of Manchester, July 1998