When a thousand flowers bloom: Structural, collective, and social conditions for innovation in organizations

Knowledge Management and Organisational Design

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 93-131

  Kanter, Rosabeth Moss ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85069588874     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780080509839-12     Document Type: Chapter

References (128)

1. Abernathy, W.J., & Utterback, J.M. (1978). Patterns of industrial innovation. Technology Review, 80 (June/July) 41-47.
2. Allen, T.J. (1984). Managing the flow of technology: Technology transfer and the dissemination of technological information within the R & D organization. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
3. Amabile, T.M. (1983). The social psychology of creativity. New York: Springer-Verlag.
4. Axelrod, R. (1970). Conflict of interest. Chicago: Marham.
5. Bacharach, S.B., & Lawler, E.J. (1960). Power and politics in organizations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
6. Bailyn, L. (1985). Autonomy in the industrial R & D lab. Human Resource Management, 24 129-146.
7. Baldridge, J.V., & Burnham, R.A. (1975). Organizational innovation: individual, organizational, and environmental impacts. Administrative Science Quarterly, 20 165-176.
8. Barnard, C.I. (1938). The functions of the executive. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
9. Bendix, R. (1956). Work and authority in industry. Berkeley, CA: The University of California Press.
10. Biggadike, R. (1979). The risky business of diversification. Harvard Business Review, 57(May-June), 103-111.
11. Blau, P.M. (1963). The dynamics of bureaucracy (2nd ed.). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
12. Block, Z. (1982). Can corporate venturing succeed? The Journal of Business Strategy, 3(Fall), 21-33.
13. Block, Z. (1983). Some major issues in internal corporate venturing. In J.A. Hornaday, J.A. Timmons, & Karl H. Vesper (Eds.). Frontiers of entrepreneurial research (pp. 382-389). Wellesley, MA: Babson College Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.
14. Boissevain, J. (1971). Second thoughts on quasi-groups, categories, and coalitions. Man. 6, 468-472.
15. Brittain, J.W., & Freeman, J.H. (1980). Organizational proliferation and entity development in selection. In J.R. Kimberly & R.H. Miles (Eds.). The organizational life cycle(pp. 291-341). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
16. Burgelman, R.A. (1984). Managing the internal corporate venturing process. Sloan Management Review, 25 (Winter), 33-48.
17. Burns, T., & Stalker, G.M. (1968). The management of innovation (2nd ed.). London: Tavistock.
18. Carroll, J. (1967). A note on departmental autonomy and innovation in medical school. Journal of Business, 40 531-534.
19. Child, J. (1972). Organizational structure, environment and performance: The role of strategic choice. Sociology, 6, 1-22.
20. Cohn, S.F., & Turyn, R.M. (1984). Organizational structure, decision-making procedures, and the adoption of innovations. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, EM31 (November), 154-161.
21. Connolly, T., Conlon, E., & Deutsch, S. (1980). Organizational effectiveness: A multiple-constituency approach. Academy of Management Review, 5, 211-217.
22. Cyert, R.M., & March, J.G. (1963). A behavioral theory of the firm. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
23. Dalton, M. (1959). Men who manage. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
24. Davis, S.M., & Lawrence, P.R. (1977). Matrix, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
25. Dean, R.C. (1974). The temporal mismatch—innovation’s pace versus management’s time horizons. Research Management, 19 (May), 12-15.
26. Delbecq, A.L., & Mills, P.K. (1985). Managerial practices that enhance innovation. Organizational Dynamics, 14 (Summer), 24-34.
27. Drucker, P.E (1985). Innovation and entrepreneurship—Practice and principles. New York: Harper & Row.
28. Engel, J.E, Kollat, D.T., & Blackwell, R.D. (1981). Diffusion of innovations. In R.R. Roth-berg (Ed.). Corporate strategy and product innovation (pp. 472-481). New York: Free Press.
29. Fast, N.D. (1979). The future of industrial new venture departments. Industrial Marketing Management, 8 (November), 264-273.
30. Friedlander, E, & Scott, B. (1981). The use of task groups and task forces in organizational change. In C. Cooper & R. Payne (Eds.), Groups at work (pp. 191-217). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
31. Galbraith, J. (1982). Designing the innovating organization. Organizational Dynamics, 10(Summer). 5-25.
32. Gamson, W.A. (1961). A theory of coalition formation. American Sociological Review, 26, 373-382.
33. Gamson, W.A. (1968). Coalition formation. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (pp. 529-534). New York: The Macmillan Co. and The Free Press.
34. George, R., & MacMillan, I.C. (1984). Corporate venturing—ventue management challenges. Working Paper, New York University.
35. Gladstein, D., & Caldwell, D. (1985). Boundary management in new product teams. In Academy of Management Proceedings (pp. 161-165).
36. Hage, J., & Aiken, M. (1967). Program change and organizational properties: A comparative analysis. American Journal of Sociology, 72, 503-579.
37. Hage, J., & Dewar, R. (1973). Elite values vs. organizational structure in predicting innovation. Administrative Science Quarterly, 18 279-290.
38. Hanan, M. (1976). Venturing corporations: Think small to stay strong. Harvard Business Review, 54 (May-June), 139-148.
39. Hobson, E.L., & Morrison, R.M. (1983). How do corporate start-up ventures fare? In J.A. Hornaday, J.A. Timmons, & Karl, H. Vesper (Eds.), Frontiers of entrepreneurial re-search (pp. 390-410). Wellesley, MA: Babson College Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.
40. Hollomon, J.H. (1981). Government and the innovation process. In R.R. Rothberg (Ed.). Corporate strategy and product innovation (pp. 46-59). New York: Free Press.
41. Kanter, R.M. (1972). Commitment and community. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
42. Kanter, R.M. (1977). Men and women in the corporation. New York: Basic Books.
43. Kanter, R.M. (1980). Power and change in and by organizations: Setting intellectual directions for organizational analysis. Paper presented at American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.
44. Kanter, R.M. (1982). The middle manager as innovator. Harvard Business Review, 61(July-August). 95-105.
45. Kanter, R.M. (1983). The change masters. New York: Simon & Schuster.
46. Kanter, R.M. (1984). Innovation: Our only hope for times ahead? Sloan Management Review, 25 (Summer), 51-55.
47. Kanter, R.M. (1985). Supporting innovation and venture development in established corporations. Journal of Business Venturing, 1 (Winter), 47-60.
48. Kanter, R.M. (1986). Creating the creative environment. Management Review, 75 (February), 11-12.
49. Kanter, R.M., & Stein, B.A. (Eds.) (1979). Life in organizations. New York: Basic Books.
50. Kaplan, R.E., & Mazque, M. (1983). Trade routes: The manager's network of relationships (Technical Report No. 22). Greensboro, NC: Center for Creative Leadership.
51. Katz, R. (1982). Project communication and performance: An investigation into the effects of group longevity. Administrative Science Quarterly, 17, 81-104.
52. Kidder, T. (1981). The soul of a new machine. Boston: Atlantic Little, Brown.
53. Kimberly, J.R. (1980). Initiation, innovation, and institutionalization in the creation process. In J.R. Kimberly & R.H. Miles (Eds.). The organizational life cycle (18-43). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
54. Kimberly, J.R. (1981). Managerial innovations. In W.H. Starbuck (Ed.). Handbook of organizational design (Vol. 1. pp. 84-104). New York: Oxford University Press.
55. Kimberly, J.R., & Evanisko, M.J. (1979). Organizational innovation. Working paper A27. School of Organization and Management, Yale University.
56. Kohn, M. (1971). Bureaucratic man: A portrait and an interpretation. American Sociological Review, 38 461-474.
57. Lawrence, P.R., & Lorsch, J.W. (1967). Organization and environment. Boston: Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University.
58. MacMillan, I.C., Block, Z., & Subba Narsimha, P.N. (1986). Corporate venturing: Alternatives, obstacles encountered, and experience effects. Journal of Business Venturing, 1 (Spring), 177-191.
59. Maidique, M.A. (1980). Entrepreneurs, champions, and technological innovation. Sloan Management Review, 21 (Winter), 59-76.
60. Mansfield, E., Rapoport, J., Schnee, J., Wagner, S., & Hamburger, N. (1981). Research and innovation in the modern corporation. In R.R. Rothberg (Ed.), Corporate strategy and product innovation (pp. 416-427). New York: Free Press.
61. March, J.G. (1962). The business firm as a political coalition. The Journal of Politics, 24, 662-678.
62. March, J.G., & Olsen, J.P. (1976). Ambiguity and choice in organizations. Bergen, Norway: Universitetsforlanget.
63. Marquis, D.G., & Myers, S. (1969). Successful industrial innovations. Washington, DC: National Science Foundation.
64. Martilla, J.A. (1971). Word-of-mouth communication in the industrial adoption process. Journal of Marketing Research, 8, 173-178.
65. Mechanic, D. (1962). Sources of power of lower participants in complex organizations. Administrative Science Quarterly, 7, 347-364.
66. Mintzberg, H. (1981). Organizational design: Fashion or fit? Harvard Business Review, 59(Jan.-Feb.). 103-116.
67. Mintzberg, H. (1983). Power in and around organizations. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
68. Mohr, L.B. (1978). Explaining organizational behavior. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
69. Moritz, M. (1984). The little kingdom: The private story of Apple Computer. New York: Morrow.
70. Murnighan, J.K. (1978). Models of coalition behavior: Game theoretic, social psychological, and political perspectives. Psychological Bulletin, 85, 1130-1153.
71. Nelson, R.R. (Ed.) (1962). The rate and direction of inventive activity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
72. Normann, R. (1971). Organizational innovativeness: Product variation and reorientation. Administrative Science Quarterly, 16, 203-215.
73. O’Toole, I. (1983). Declining innovation: The failure of success. Human Resource Planning, 6, 125-141.
74. Pelz, D., & Andrews, F. (1966). Scientists in organizations. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
75. Pennings, J.M., & Goodman, P.S. (1977). Toward a workable framework. In P.S. Goodman, J.M. Pennings & Associates. New perspectives in organizational effectiveness (pp. 146-184). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
76. Perrow, C. (1981). Normal accidents. New York: Basic Books.
77. Pfeffer, J. (1981). Power in organizations. Boston: Pitman.
78. Pfeffer, J., & Salancik, G.R. (1977). Organization design: The case for a coalition model of organizations. Organizational Dynamics, 6 (Autumn), 15-29.
79. Pfeffer, J., & Salancik, G.R. (1978). The external control of organizations. New York: Harper & Row.
80. Pierce, J.L., & Delbecq, A.L. (1977). Organization structure, individual attitudes and innovation. Academy of Management Review, 2, 21-51.
81. Pondy, L.R. (1980). Organizational conflict: Concepts and models. In H.J. Leavitt, et al. (Eds.). Readings in Managerial Psychology (pp. 473-492). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
82. Powell, J. (1985). Bootstrap entrepreneurs at GTE TeleMessenger. GTE Together. Winter.
83. Quinn, J.B. (1979). Technological innovation, entrepreneurship and strategy. Sloan Management Review, 20 (Spring), 19-30.
84. Quinn, J.B. (1980). Strategies for change. Logical incrementalism. Homewood. IL: Irwin.
85. Quinn, J.B. (1985). Managing innovation: Controlled chaos. Harvard Business Review, 63(May-June), 73-84.
86. Riker, W.H. (1962). The theory of political coalitions. New Haven: Yale University Press.
87. Roberts, E.B. (1980). New ventures for corporate growth. Harvard Business Review, 58(July-August), 134-142.
88. Robertson, T., & Wind, Y. (1983). Organizational cosmopolitanism and innovation. Academy of Management Journal, 26, 332-338.
89. Rogers, E.M., & Shoemaker, F.F. (1971). Communication of innovations: A cross-cultural approach (2nd ed.). New York: The Free Press.
90. Rothberg, R.R. (Ed.) (1981). Corporate strategy and product innovation. New York: Free Press.
91. Ruttan, V.W., & Hayami, Y. (1984). Toward a theory of induced institutional innovation. Journal of Development Studies, 20, 203-223.
92. Salancik, G.R., & Pfeffer, J. (1977) Who gets power—and how they hold on to it. Organizational Dynamics, 5 (Winter), 2-21.
93. Sapolsky, H. (1967). Organizational structure and innovation. Journal of Business, 40, 497-510.
94. Schilit, W.K., & Locke, E.A. (1982). A study of upward influence in organizations. Administrative Science Quarterly, 27, 304-316.
95. Schon, D. (1967). Technology and change. New York: Delacorte.
96. Schon, D. (1971). Beyond the stable state. New York: Norton.
97. Schroeder, R., Van de Ven, A., Scudder, G., & Polley, D. (1986). Observations leading to a process model of innovation. Discussion Paper No. 48, Strategic Management Research Center, University of Minnesota.
98. Shubik, M. (1982). Game theory in the social sciences: Concepts and solutions. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
99. Starbuck, W.H. (1983). Organizations as action generators. American Sociological Review, 48, 91-115.
100. Staw, B.M. (1975). Attribution of the ‘causes’ of performance: A general alternative interpretation of cross-sectional research on organizations. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 13, 414-432.
101. Stein, B.A., & Kanter, R.M. (1980). Building the parallel organization: Toward mechanisms for permanent quality of work life. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 16, 371-388.
102. Stevenson, H., & Gumpert, D. (1985). The heart of entrepreneurship. Harvard Business Review, 64 (March-April), 84-94.
103. Stumpe, W.R. (1979). What the research manager should know about new product psychology. Research Management, 22 (March), 13-17.
104. Summers, D.V. (1986). Organizing in middle management: A politico-structural model of coalition formation in complex organizations. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Sociology, Yale University.
105. Thompson, J.P. (1967). Organizations in action. New York: McGraw-Hill.
106. Thurman, B. (1979-1980). In the office: Networks and coalitions. Social Networks, 2, 47-63.
107. Tichy, N., & Fombrun, C. (1979). Network analysis in organizational settings. Human Relations, 32, 923-965.
108. Tosi, H., & Tosi, L. (1986). What managers need to know about knowledge-based pay. Organizational Dynamics, 14 (Winter), 52-64.
109. Trist, E. (1981). The evolution of sociotechnical systems as a conceptual framework and as an action research program. In A. Van de Ven & W. Joyce (Eds.). Perspective on organization design and behavior (pp. 19-75). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
110. Tushman, M. (1977). Special boundary roles in the innovation process. Administrative Science Quarterly, 22, 587-605.
111. Tushman, M. (1979). Work characteristics and subunit communication structure: A contingency analysis. Administrative Science Quarterly, 24, 82-98.
112. Tushman, M., & Moore, W.L. (Eds.) (1982). Readings in the management of innovation. Marshfield, MA: Pitman.
113. Tushman, M., & Nadler, D. (1986). Organizing for innovation. California Management Review, 28 (Spring), 74-92.
114. Van de Ven, A.H. (1986). Central problems in the management of innovation. Management Science, 32, 590-607.
115. Vesper, K.H. (1984). Three faces of corporate entrepreneurship: A pilot study. Working Paper, University of Washington.
116. Von Hippel, E. (1977). Successful and failing internal corporate ventures: An empirical analysis. Industrial Marketing Management, 6, 163-174.
117. Von Hippel, E. (1982). Get new products from customers. Harvard Business Review, 60(March-April), 117-122.
118. Von Hippel, E. (1981). Users as innovators. In R.R. Rothberg (Ed.), Corporate strategy and product innovation (pp. 239-251). New York: Free Press.
119. Walton, R. (1975). The diffusion of New York structures: Explaining why success didn’t take. Organizational Dynamics, 4 (Winter), 3-21.
120. Walton, R. (1987). Innovating to compete. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
121. Weber, M. (1978). Guenther Ross and Claus Wittich, (Trans.) Economy and society (Vol. 2). Berkeley, CA: The University of California Press.
122. Weick, K.E. (1976). Educational organizations as loosely coupled systems. Administrative Science Quarterly, 21, 1-19.
123. Weick, K.E. (1979). The social psychology of organizing (2nd ed.). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
124. Wiewel, W., & Hunter, A. (1985). The interorganizational network as a resource: A comparative case study on organizational genesis. Administrative Science Quarterly, 30, 482-497.
125. Wortman, C.B., & Linsenmeier, J.A.W. (1977). Interpersonal attraction and techniques of ingratiation in organizational settings. In B.M. Staw & G. Salancik (Eds.), New Directions in Organizational Behavior (pp. 133-178) Chicago: St. Clair Press.
126. Yin, R.K. (1977). Production efficiency versus bureaucratic self-interest: Two innovative processes? Policy Sciences, 8, 381-399.
127. Zagare, F.C. (1984). Game theory concepts and applications. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
128. Zaltman, G., Duncan, R., & Holbeck, J. (1973). Innovations and organization. New York: John Wiley & Sons.