Learning the innovation journey: Order out of chaos?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cheng, YT; VandeVen, AH
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.7.6.593
• 发表日期: 1996
• 页码: 593-614
• 关键词: Learning; INNOVATION; chaos; dynamical systems theory

摘要

This paper reports the first empirical findings demonstrating the presence of chaotic processes in innovation process. The paper provides an empirical basis for distinguishing between orderly periodic stages in the innovation process, random sequences and chaotic patterns. The finding that the initial innovation development process exhibits chaotic patterns will have very important implications for theories of organization learning and for the structuring of ''exploration'' processes in organizations.