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A meta-analysis of the relationships between organizational innovation and 13 of its potential determinants resulted in statistically significant associations for specialization, functional differentiation, professionalism, centralization, managerial attitude toward change, technical knowledge resources, administrative intensity, slack resources, and external and internal communication. Results suggest that the relations between the determinants and innovation are stable, casting doubt on previous assertions of their instability. Moderator analyses indicated that the type of organization adopting innovations and their scope are more effective moderators of the focal relationships than the type of innovation and the stage of adoption. Several theories of innovation are examined in terms of the aggregated data. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
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This paper studied charter changes in a corporation involved in high-technology, affecting its eight domestic and two foreign divisions. The study covers how its managers manipulated resources into new productive assets in the changing market.
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Environment and relationship-based strategy factors are needed as moderators in new technology ventures that may include relationship between firm performance and product innovation strategy.
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