Study aid for the course Innovation, Organization and Entrepreneurship
Course: Innovation, Organization & Entrepreneurship
Code: 441081-B-6
This “summary” is meant as a study aid to distinguish the various papers and authors from each other and aims to help you remember the core of each
paper.
Authors Title of paper Subject Keywords Extra notes
Abernathy & Patterns of industrial Patterns of Fluid phase, transitional phase and specific
Utterback (1978) innovation industrial phase
innovation
Tushman & Technological Technological Enhancing and disruptive technological
Anderson (1986) discontinuities and Discontinuities changes (radical and incremental)
organizational and
environments Organizational
Environments
Hargadon (2003) Recombinant Recombinant Recombination of knowledge, sometimes of Technology: “the arrangement of
innovation and the Innovation other domains, taking apart and reassembling people, ideas, and objects for the
sources of invention accomplishment of a particular goal”
Schoenmakers & The Technological Origins of Radical innovation build on existing
Duysters (2010) Origins Of Radical Radical knowledge, openness and combining of
Inventions Inventions mature and emergent, different domains
McKendrick & Frequent incremental Influence of Large vs small companies. Large can exploit
Wade (2009) change, organizational incremental and less vulnerable to harm/damage.
size and mortality in innovations on
high-technology firm survival
competition
Nohria & Gulati Is slack good or bad Slack good or Too much or little slack is bad → Inverted U-
(1996) for innovation? bad shape. 10% slack (time and budget) is best.
Course: Innovation, Organization & Entrepreneurship
Code: 441081-B-6
This “summary” is meant as a study aid to distinguish the various papers and authors from each other and aims to help you remember the core of each
paper.
Authors Title of paper Subject Keywords Extra notes
Abernathy & Patterns of industrial Patterns of Fluid phase, transitional phase and specific
Utterback (1978) innovation industrial phase
innovation
Tushman & Technological Technological Enhancing and disruptive technological
Anderson (1986) discontinuities and Discontinuities changes (radical and incremental)
organizational and
environments Organizational
Environments
Hargadon (2003) Recombinant Recombinant Recombination of knowledge, sometimes of Technology: “the arrangement of
innovation and the Innovation other domains, taking apart and reassembling people, ideas, and objects for the
sources of invention accomplishment of a particular goal”
Schoenmakers & The Technological Origins of Radical innovation build on existing
Duysters (2010) Origins Of Radical Radical knowledge, openness and combining of
Inventions Inventions mature and emergent, different domains
McKendrick & Frequent incremental Influence of Large vs small companies. Large can exploit
Wade (2009) change, organizational incremental and less vulnerable to harm/damage.
size and mortality in innovations on
high-technology firm survival
competition
Nohria & Gulati Is slack good or bad Slack good or Too much or little slack is bad → Inverted U-
(1996) for innovation? bad shape. 10% slack (time and budget) is best.
