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| Author: | Strang, D. Still, M.C. |
| Title: | In search of the élite: revising a model of adaptive emulation with evidence from benchmarking teams |
| Journal: | Industrial and Corporate Change
2004 : APR, VOL. 13:2, p. 309-333 |
| Index terms: | Management Industries Benchmarking Team work Innovation Models |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This study revises the Strang and Macy's model of adaptive emulation through inspection of empirical efforts at innovation. Self-reports of managers participating in benchmarking teams are consistent with the argument that innovation is problem-driven, focused on performance and draws heavily on success stories. But managerial accounts also indicate close attention to prestigious firms. This study develops a version of adaptive emulation where firms imitate members of a corporate elite whose prestige is related to but not reducible to performance. Computational modeling indicates that socially oriented emulation is collectively adaptive but that it also widens the range of innovations that experience faddish careers. |
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