Journal
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
Volume 67, Issue 9, Pages 5479-5488Publisher
INFORMS
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2020.3746
Keywords
innovation; purpose; sustainability
Funding
- Division of Research, Harvard Business School
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This paper emphasizes the importance of understanding architectural or systemic innovation, and proposes that studying organizational purpose may be a fruitful avenue for future research. Deepening our knowledge of the innovation process is crucial in the face of societal challenges.
Understanding the process of innovation has been a central concern of management researchers, but despite this progress, there remains much that we do not understand. Deepening our knowledge is critically important given the enormous environmental and social challenges we face as a society. Pursing incremental innovation will continue to be hugely important, but this paper argues that building a richer understanding of architectural or systemic innovation will also be crucial. This paper suggests that the study of organizational purpose may provide a particularly fruitful avenue for future research.
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