The Innovation Marathon: Lessons from High Technology Firms / Edition 1

by Mariann Jelinek, Claudia Bird Schoonhoven

Overview

The Innovation Marathon offers a guidance from the experience of successful firms on how to achieve continuing innovation, intense employee commitment, simultaneous high creativity and tight control, and flexible responses to rapid change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631153924
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/15/1991
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	6.44(w) x 9.39(h) x 1.24(d)

About the Author

Mariann Jelinek is an American organizational theorist, and Emeritus Professor of Strategy at the College of William & Mary, considered an icon for her contributions in the field of management of technology and innovation. Claudia Bird Schoonhoven is the author of The Innovation Marathon: Lessons from High Technology Firms, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vi

1 Electronics Competition: A New Game 1

2 Old Ways, New Days 30

3 Patterns of Stability and Change 55

4 Does Strategy Exist? Does it Work? 87

5 The Roots of Innovation 131

6 Managing Choices, Maintaining Innovation 165

7 The Paradox of Formal Systems and Adaptable Strategies 205

8 Organizing for Innovation 252

9 The Innovation Cycle 295

10 The Manufacturing End-Game: Sustaining Innovation 337

11 Strong Culture and its Consequences 367

12 Living in Turbulent Times 403

Appendix 430

Bibliography 446

Glossary 459

Index 462

Editorial Reviews

"Finally, a book that captures the rich and exciting challenges of innovation.... Should be required reading for executives and academics alike." —Diana Day, professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

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