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| Author: | Dougherty, D. |
| Title: | Reimagining the Differentiation and Integration of Work for Sustained Product Innovation |
| Journal: | Organization Science
2001 : SEP-OCT, VOL. 12:5, p. 612-631 |
| Index terms: | PRODUCTS INNOVATION ORGANIZATION |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This study describes the image of organizing that underlies a complex organization's ability to incorporate streams of innovation with continuing operations. The author argues that a mechanistic organization archetype prevents people from seeing in their minds' eyes - from imagining - how to do the work of innovation organization wide, but that theorists have failed to articulate an alternative to this archetype in its own terms. The study focuses on two elements of organizing: the differentiation and the integration of work. The author builds grounded theory for an alternate, innovative archetype of organizing by exploring the shared image of work differentiation and integration in twelve firms that vary in innovative ability. |
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