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Management Science
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Management Science
Mastering the dynamics of innovation
Mastering the dynamics of innovation
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Journal of Engineering and Technology Management
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Applied Soft Computing
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Bridging the Socio-technical Gap in Decision Support Systems: Challenges for the Next Decade
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Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
How does the combination of R&D and types of knowledge matter for patent propensity?
Journal of Engineering and Technology Management
Acquisition as a means for external technology sourcing: Complementary, substitutive or both?
Journal of Engineering and Technology Management
Journal of Engineering and Technology Management
A conceptual model for the process of IT innovation adoption in organizations
Journal of Engineering and Technology Management
Small firms in multipartner R&D alliances: Gaining benefits by acquiescing
Journal of Engineering and Technology Management
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Research on innovation in organizations has generally examined the differences in the characteristics of innovative and non-innovative organizations, an endeavor that has often produced inconsistent results. In this paper, we propose that future research may resolve those inconsistencies by incorporating in the theory the differences between organizations that mostly generate innovations and those that mostly adopt innovations. We refer to the former, which are primarily producers or suppliers of innovation, as innovation-generating organizations, and to the latter, which are preponderantly users of innovations produced by innovation-generating organizations, as innovation-adopting organizations. Building on the notion that the processes of generating and adopting innovation are distinct phenomena that are facilitated by different organizational conditions, we discuss how the distinction between innovation-generating and innovation-adopting organizations would contribute to clarifying several inconsistent research findings, such as the relationship between innovation and size, the role of innovation radicalness, and the selection of appropriate measures of innovation.