作者：Van de Ven, Andrew H.; Poole, Marshall Scott
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：This paper describes the methods being used by the Minnesota Innovation Research Program to develop and test a process theory of innovation which explains how and why innovations develop over time and what developmental paths may lead to success and failure for different kinds of innovations. After a background description of the longitudinal field research, this paper focuses on the methods being used to examine processes of innovation development. These methods pertain to the selection of ca...
作者：Hirsch, Paul M.; Friedman, Ray; Koza, Mitchell P.
作者单位：Northwestern University; Harvard University; INSEAD Business School
摘要：While the formulation or strategy side of business policy has always drawn appropriately from economic theory, we caution that, taken to its logical extreme, economic theory ignores the importance of implementation, implies lack of choice in organization decision-making, and makes the organization a nonentity. In tins paper, we outline the fundamental differences between behavioral and economic approaches to business policy These differences are highlighted by an illustration of their divergen...
