Sustained product innovation in large, mature organizations: Overcoming innovation-to-organization problems

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Dougherty, D; Hardy, C
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/256994
• 发表日期: 1996
• 页码: 1120-1153
• 关键词: ESTABLISHED FIRMS; POLITICAL-PROCESS; management; TECHNOLOGY; ventures; MODEL; strategy; DECISION; success; FAILURE

摘要

We examined problems with sustained product innovation in 15 firms that averaged 96 years of age, 54,000 employees, and $9.4 billion in annual revenues. Findings reveal that the inability to connect new products with organizational resources, processes, and strategy thwarted innovation in these large, mature organizations and that innovators lacked the power to make these connections. We suggest that these organizations must reconfigure their systems of power to become capable of sustained innovation and offer recommendations for practice.