Organizational Innovation: Theory, Research, and Direction (New Horizons in Innovation Management series)

✍ Scribed by Fariborz Damanpour

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 323
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This comprehensive book synthesizes research from the past 50 years of innovation studies, addressing the main elements and providing a connected perspective on innovation within organizations. It explores the generation and adoption of both technological and nontechnological innovations, offering a coherent and systematic view of the process.

Fariborz Damanpour examines innovation activity and internal mechanisms and processes in both business and nonbusiness organizations, providing an overview of key concepts, terms, and theory. Insights from behavioral, economic, and structure-based perspectives are used to explain existing findings and help the reader navigate current research on the management of innovation, as well as offering ideas and frameworks to guide new studies.

Organizational Innovation will be an invaluable resource for researchers and graduate-level students of management and organization studies, particularly those working on the management of innovation and technology. It will also prove useful to educators in the field as a reference work for students.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Part I Innovations and organizations
1. Research on organizational innovation
2. Concepts, theories, and contexts
Part II Elements of organizational innovation
3. Types of innovation – technical, nontechnical, hybrid
4. Spectrum of innovation radicalness
5. Process of innovation – generation, adoption
6. Openness of the innovation process
Part III Sources of innovations in organizations
7. Primary antecedents of organizational innovation
8. Moderators, meditators, and measurement of innovation
Part IV Performance consequences of innovation
9. Innovation and organizational performance
10. Innovation pattern, complementarity, and performance
References
Index

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