Innovations as catalysts for organizational change: Shifts in organizational cognition and search

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Greve, HR; Taylor, A
• 署名单位: University of Tsukuba; Northwestern University
• 刊物名称: ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-8392
• DOI: 10.2307/2666979
• 发表日期: 2000
• 页码: 54-80
• 关键词: COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; STRATEGIC CHANGE; THREAT-RIGIDITY; FAILURE; diffusion; industry; MODEL; FIRMS; TRANSFORMATION; ABANDONMENT

摘要

This paper uses data on radio format changes to test hypotheses on innovations as catalysts for nonmimetic change in organizations. Innovations are difficult to interpret using existing schemata, causing organizations to search for information on the opportunities and threats implicit in observed innovations. Such search may lead to mimetic adoption of the innovation or, more likely, to more varied nonmimetic change. Results show an effect of innovations on the rate of nonmimetic change in radio markets, with innovations in large or nearby markets having greater effect and innovations by large organizations having less effect. The social and competitive relations of the innovator to a given organization are thus modifiers of the catalytic effect. These findings have implications for theories of innovation, competition, and organizational isomorphism.(.)