Without innovation, companies die. Managing the innovation process well is important for companies and for nations as a whole.This book shows how the innovation process is changing profoundly, with significant implications for managers and public policy-makers.A new kind of technology,...

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We examine how groups fall prey to the sequence effect when they make choices based on informed assessments of complex situations; for example, when evaluating research and development (R&D) projects. The core argument is that the temporal sequence of selection matters because projects that...

Current theories of how organizations harness knowledge for innovative activity cannot convincingly explain emergent practices whereby firms selectively reveal knowledge to their advantage. We conceive selective revealing as a strategic mechanism to re-shape the collaborative behavior of other...