Theories of organizational structure and innovation adoption: the role of environmental change

摘要

Innovation scholars face an enduring research problem: how to make models that are testable, yet reflect the complexity of real business environments. Typically, researchers of organizational innovation define their research by focusing on one dimension of innovation-type of innovation, radicalness of innovation, or stage of innovation-at a time. In reality, these dimensions overlap, which partly explains why past theories of the relationships between organizational structure and innovation have produced inconsistent results.