Organizational designs and innovation streams
@article{Tushman2010OrganizationalDA, title={Organizational designs and innovation streams}, author={Michael L. Tushman and Wendy K. Smith and Robert Chapman Wood and George Westerman and Charles A. O'Reilly}, journal={Industrial and Corporate Change}, year={2010}, volume={19}, pages={1331-1366} }
This article empirically explores the relations between alternative organizational designs and a firm's ability to explore as well as exploit. We operationalize exploitation and exploration in terms of innovation streams; incremental innovation in existing products as well as architectural and/or discontinuous innovation. Based on in-depth, longitudinal data on 13 business units and 22 innovations, we describe the consequences of organization design choices on innovation outcomes as well as the…
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