Innovators and imitators: Organizational reference groups and adoption of organizational routines

Research Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1550-1569

  Massini, Silvia ^a   Lewin, Arie Y ^b   Greve, Henrich R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Institutional rules; Organizational and technological innovations; Reference group; Routines

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SURVEYS;

INSTITUTIONAL RULES; ORGANIZATIONAL AND TECHNICAL INNOVATIONS; REFERENCE GROUP; ROUTINES;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 28044455690     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2005.07.004     Document Type: Article

References (76)

1. E. Abrahamson, and G. Fairchild Management fashion: lifecycles, triggers, and collective learning processes Administrative Science Quarterly 44 1999 708 740
2. H.E. Aldrich Organizations Evolving 1999 Sage Thousand Oaks, CA
3. S.R. Barley, and G. Kunda Design and devotion: surges of rational and normative ideologies of control in managerial discourse Administrative Science Quarterly 37 1992 363 399
4. F.M. Bass The relationship between diffusion rates, experience curves, and demand elasticities for consumer durables technical innovation Journal of Business 53 1980 51 67
5. P. Bromiley Testing a causal model of corporate risk taking and performance Academy of Management Journal 34 1991 37 59
6. J.S. Brown, and P. Duguid Organizational learning and communities of practice. Toward and unified view of working. Learning and Innovation Organization Science 2 1991 40 57
7. R.A. Burgelman Strategy as vector and the inertia of coevolutionary lock-in Administrative Science Quarterly 47 2002 325 357
8. L.R. Burns, and D.R. Wholey Adoption and abandonment of matrix management programs: effects of organizational characteristics and interorganizational networks Academy of Management Journal 36 1993 106 138
9. W.M. Cohen, and S. Klepper The anatomy of industry R&D intensity distributions American Economic Review 82 1992 773 799
10. W.M. Cohen, and D.A. Levinthal Innovation and learning: the two faces of R&D Economic Journal 99 1989 569 596
11. W.M. Cohen, and D.A. Levinthal Absorptive capacity: a new perspective on learning and innovation Administrative Science Quarterly 35 1990 128 152
12. C.M. Christensen The innovator's dilemma When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail 1997 Harvard Business School Press Boston, MA
13. R.M. Cyert, and J.G. March A Behavioral Theory of the Firm 1963 Prentice Hall Englewood Cliffs, NJ
14. G.F. Davis, and H.R. Greve Corporate elite networks and governance changes in the 1980s American Journal of Sociology 103 1997 1 37
15. P.J. DiMaggio, and W.W. Powell The iron cage revisited: institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields American Sociological Review 48 1983 147 160
16. J.E. Dutton, and J.M. Dukerich Keeping an eye in the mirror: image and identity in organizational adaptation Academy of Management Journal 34 1991 517 554
17. L. Festinger A theory of social comparison processes Human Relations 7 1954 117 140
18. A. Fiegenbaum, and H. Thomas Strategic groups as reference groups: theory, modeling and empirical examination of industry and competitive strategy Strategic Management Journal 16 1995 461 476
19. N. Fligstein The spread of the multidivisional form among large firms, 1919-1979 American Sociological Review 50 1985 377 391
20. N. Fligstein The structural transformation of American industry: an institutional account of the causes of diversification in the largest firms, 1919-1979 W.W. Powell P.J. DiMaggio The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis 1991 The University of Chicago Press Chicago 311 336
21. H.R. Greve Performance, aspirations, and risky organizational change Administrative Science Quarterly 44 1998 58 86
22. H.R. Greve Organizational Learning From Performance Feedback: A Behavioral Perspective on Innovation and Change 2003 Cambridge University Press Cambridge, UK
23. H.R. Greve Inter-organizational learning and social structure Organization Studies 26 2005 1025 1047
24. Greve, H.R., Lewin, A.Y., Sakano, T., Seiford, L., Zhou, J., 2003. Organizational efficiency, selection and imitation: an analysis of the US cement industry, working paper.
25. M. Hammer Beyond Reengineering 1996 Harper Collins New York
26. P.R. Haunschild, and A.S. Miner Modes of interorganizational imitation: the effects of outcome salience and uncertainty Administrative Science Quarterly 42 1997 472 500
27. H.A. Haveman Follow the leader: mimetic isomorphism and entry into new markets Administrative Science Quarterly 38 1993 593 627
28. R.E. Hoskisson, C.W.L. Hill, and H. Kim The multidivisional structure: organizational fossil or source of value Journal of Management 19 1993 269 298
29. M. Karshenas, and P. Stoneman Technological diffusion P. Stoneman Handbook of Economics of Innovation and Technological Change 1995 Blackwell Oxford
30. A. Kieser Myth and rhetoric in management fashion Organization 4 1997 49 74
31. M.S. Kraatz, and E.J. Zajac Exploring the limits of the new institutionalism: the causes and consequences of illegitimate organizational change American Sociological Review 61 1996 812 836
32. T.K. Lant Aspiration level adaptation: an empirical exploration Management Science 38 1992 623 644
33. T.K. Lant, F.J. Milliken, and B. Batra The role of managerial learning and interpretation in strategic persistence and reorientation: an empirical exploration Strategic Management Journal 13 1992 585 608
34. T.K. Lant, and D.B. Montgomery Learning from strategic success and failure Journal of Business Research 15 1987 503 518
35. Lewin, A.Y., Lovell, C.A.K. (Eds.), 1990. Frontier Analysis. Parametric and Nonparametric Approaches, Journal of Econometrics, Special Issue, 46, 1 and 2.
36. Lewin, A.Y., Lovell, C.A.K. (Eds.), 1995. Productivity Analysis. Parametric and Non-Parametric Applications, European Journal of Operational Research, Special Issue, 80, 3.
37. A.Y. Lewin, and S. Massini Knowledge creation and organizational capabilities of innovating and imitating firms H. Tsoukas N. Mylonopulos Organizations as Knowledge Systems 2003 Palgrave Basingstoke
38. Lewin, A.Y., Volberda, H.W., 2003. The coevolution advantage in management practice, In: Lewin, A.Y., Volberda, H.W., (Eds.), The Coevolution Advantage: Mobilizing The Self-Renewing Organization. M.E. Sharpe.
39. K. Lewin, T. Dembo, L. Festinger, and P. Sears Level of aspiration J.M. Hunt Personality and the Behavior Disorder vol. 1 1944 Ronald New York
40. F. Lissoni, and J.S. Metcalfe Diffusion of innovation ancient and modern: a review of the main themes M. Dodgson R. Rothwell The Handbook of Industrial Economics 1994 Edward Elgar Cheltenham, UK
41. V. Mahajan, E. Muller, and F. Bass New product diffusion models in marketing: a review and direction for research Journal of Marketing 54 1990 1 26
42. S. Massini, A.Y. Lewin, T. Numagami, and A.M. Pettigrew The evolution of organisational routines among large western and Japanese firms Research Policy 31 2002 1333 1348
43. J.W. Meyer, and B. Rowan Institutionalized organizations: formal structure as myth and ceremony American Journal of Sociology 83 1977 340 363
44. S.J. Mezias, Y.R. Chen, and P.R. Murphy Aspiration-level adaptation in an American financial services organization: a field study Management Science 48 2002 1285 1300
45. K.D. Miller, and M.J. Leiblein Corporate risk-return relations: returns variability versus downside risk Academy of Management Journal 39 1996 91 122
46. R.R. Nelson Why do firms differ, and how does it matter? Strategic Management Journal 12 1991 61 74
47. R.R. Nelson National Innovation Systems. A Comparative Analysis 1993 Oxford University Press Oxford
48. R.R. Nelson Recent evolutionary theorizing about economic change Journal of Economic Literature XXXIII 1995 48 90 March
49. R.R. Nelson, and S.G. Winter An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change 1982 The Belknap Press/Harvard University Press Cambridge, MA, USA
50. I. Nonaka, and H. Takeuchi The knowledge-creating company How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation 1995 Oxford University Press Oxford
51. K. Pavitt Sectoral patterns of technical change: towards a taxonomy and theory Research Policy 13 1984 343 373
52. A.M. Pettigrew, and S. Massini Innovative forms of organizing: trends in Europe, Japan and USA in the 1990s A.M. Pettigrew R. Whittington L. Melin C. Sanchez-Runde F. van den Bosch W. Ruigrok T. Numagami Innovative Forms of Organizing. International Perspectives 2003 Sage London
53. A.M. Pettigrew R. Whittington L. Melin C. Sanchez-Runde F. van den Bosch W. Ruigrok T. Numagami Innovative Forms of Organizing. International Perspectives 2003 Sage London
54. J.F. Porac, J.B. Wade, and T.G. Pollock Industry categories and the politics of the comparable firm in CEO compensation Administrative Science Quarterly 44 1999 112 144
55. M.E. Porter Location, competition, and economic development: local clusters in a global economy Economic Development Quarterly 14 2000 15 34
56. E.M. Rogers Diffusion of Innovations 1983 Free Press New York
57. N. Rosenberg On technological expectations Economic Journal 86 1976 523 535
58. W.R. Scott Institutions and Organizations second ed. 2001 Sage Thousand Oaks, CA
59. M. Schiff, and A.Y. Lewin The impact of people on budget The Accounting Review XLV 2 1970 259 268
60. J. Schumpeter Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy 1942 Harper New York
61. W.R. Scott The adolescence of institutional theory Administrative Science Quarterly 32 1987 493 511
62. G. Silverberg, G. Dosi, and L. Orsenigo Innovation, diversity and diffusion: a self-organization model Economic Journal 98 1988 1032 1054
63. Z. Shapira Risk Taking 1994 Russel Sage New York
64. D. Strang, and S.A. Soule Diffusion in organizations and social movements: From hybrid corn to poison pills Annual Review of Sociology 24 1998 265 290
65. P. Stoneman The Economic of Technological Change 1983 Oxford University Press Oxford
66. J.R. Sutton, and F.R. Dobbin The two faces of governance: responses to legal uncertainty in U.S. firms, 1955 to 1985 American Sociological Review 61 1996 794 811
67. B.S. Tether The sources and aims of innovations in services: variety between and within sectors Economics of Innovation and New Technology 16 2003 482 506
68. P.S. Tolbert, and L.G. Zucker Institutional sources of change in the formal structure of organizations: the diffusion of civil service reform 1880-1935 Administrative Science Quarterly 28 1983 22 39
69. H.W. Volberda Building the flexible form How to Remain Competitive 1998 Oxford University Press Oxford
70. D. Webb, and A. Pettigrew The temporal development of strategy: patterns in the U.K. insurance industry Organization Science 10 1999 601 621
71. R. Whittington, and M. Mayer Beyond or behind the M-form: the structures of European business H. Thomas D. O'Neal M. Ghertman Strategy, Structure and Style 1997 Wiley Chichester
72. R. Whittington, A.M. Pettigrew, S. Peck, E. Fenton, and M. Conyon Change and complementarities in the new competitive landscape: a European panel study, 1992-1996 Organization Science 10 4 1999 583 600
73. S.G. Winter, and G. Szulanski Replication as strategy Organization Science 12 2001 730 743
74. J.V. Wood Theory and research concerning social comparisons of personal attributes Psychological Bulletin 106 1989 213 248
75. M. Zollo, and S.G. Winter Deliberate learning and the evolution of dynamic capabilities Organization Science 13 2002 339 352
76. M. Zollo, J.F. Reuer, and H. Singh Interorganizational routines and performance in strategic alliances Organization Science 13 2002 701 713