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Corporatization as Organizational Innovation

2013
There is good reason to interpret corporatization as an organizational innovation in public services. Corporatized units have become very extensively applied organizational changes in public services during the past 20–25 years (McDonald and Ruiters 2012, 4; Bilodeau et al. 2007; Valkama 2002, 90).
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The Repression of Organizational Innovation

Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, 1989
AbstractThis paper explores several related propositions. First, socially constructed definitions of innovation influence the domain of innovative activity in organizations. Secondly, selective retention of past organizational history interacts with socially legitimate definitions of innovation.
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Organizational innovation and structure

Journal of Business Research, 1980
Abstract The relationship between organizational innovation and structure in 31 manufacturing organizations in a developing country is examined. The analysis indicates three findings: (1) multi-item scales developed in the U.S. are, with some revisions, reliable in a developing context; (2) the relationships established between organizational ...
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Organizational Size and Innovation

Organization Studies, 1992
This paper offers a meta-analytic review of the relationship between organiza tional size and innovation. Using 36 correlations derived from 20 published studies, the review finds a positive relationship between size and innovation. In addition, an examination of the effects of several moderating factors indicates that: (1) size is more positively ...
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Organizational cosmopolitanism and innovativeness.

Academy of Management journal. Academy of Management, 1983
The article discusses a research on organizational cosmopolitanism and innovativeness. Individual cosmopolitanism scores were correlated against the number of innovations adopted by the organizatio...
Yoram Wind, Thomas S. Robertson
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Innovative Organizational Structure

2020
In an effective organization there is congruence between purpose, strategy, processes, structure, culture and people, It is the challenge to the leaders to orchestrate this alignment and to still promote innovation and change. Organizational structures that foster an innovation culture tend to be less hierarchical than traditional structures, in some ...
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An inventory of organizational innovativeness

Technovation, 1998
Abstract The work environment is a crucial factor behind an organization's innovation output rate. This paper reports the development of an inventory of organizational innovativeness (IOI) that could be used to measure organizational effectiveness in innovation.
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Innovation and Crisis in Organizational Analysis*

The Sociological Quarterly, 1976
The study of organizations has been guided by a paradigm consisting of interrelated theoretical, methodological, and practical commitments.
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Organizational Slack and Innovation

2013
Leitner, Johannes, Meyer, Michael
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Innovations and Organizational Structures

2016
This chapter presents a novel model to represent the relative results that different innovation strategies can be expected to attain in respect of technological spaces defined by different complexity levels. The model representing complexity is based on Kauffman's fitness landscape (known, also, as NK fitness landscape).
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