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| Tekijä: | Nohria, N. Gulati, R. |
| Otsikko: | What is the Optimum Amount of Organizational Slack ? A Study of the Relationship between Slack and Innovation in Multinational Firms |
| Lehti: | European Management Journal
1997 : VOL. 15:6, p. 603-611 |
| Asiasana: | MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES INNOVATION |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | The relationship between organizational slack and innovation has remained an unanswered empirical question for decades and theorists continue to argue over the basic issue of whether slack facilitates or inhibits innovation. Opponents of slack claim that slack relaxes incentives to innovate and encourages wasteful investment in R&D activities, while its proponents counter that slack resources allow individuals and departments to experiment with projects that might lead to important innovations. In this article, Nitin Nohria and Ranjay Gulati attempt to reconcile the theoretical debate by postulating that slack is neither inherently destructive to an organization, nor is it a fail-safe cure. By discouraging any form of experimentation whose success is uncertain, too little slack inhibits innovation. |
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