Scholars and popular writers have written a great deal about entrepreneurs and the formation of new companies, but they have not succeeded in predicting when and where large numbers of new organizations will emerge. This volume attempts, from the viewpoint of the interdisciplinary field of...

We study how employing organizations divide up the tasks they do, and therefore how they structure their employees’ jobs. Much research in the past three decades has shown that employing organizations’ job structures determine the social, economic, and psychological outcomes...

We argue that established firms, including industry incumbents and diversifying entrants, play vital all underemphasized roles as the sources of major innovations in many industries The study presents empirical evidence showing that established firms are often sources of major innovations in the...