Innovation in the 21st Century: Architectural Change, Purpose, and the Challenges of Our Time

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Henderson, Rebecca
• 署名单位: Harvard University
• 刊物名称: MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0025-1909
• DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2020.3746
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 5479-5488
• 关键词: innovation; Purpose; sustainability

摘要

Understanding the process of innovation has been a central concern of management researchers, but despite this progress, there remains much that we do not understand. Deepening our knowledge is critically important given the enormous environmental and social challenges we face as a society. Pursing incremental innovation will continue to be hugely important, but this paper argues that building a richer understanding of architectural or systemic innovation will also be crucial. This paper suggests that the study of organizational purpose may provide a particularly fruitful avenue for future research.