What fails and when? A process view of innovation failure

IF 11.1 1区 管理学 Q1 ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL
Elena Freisinger , Ian P. McCarthy
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Abstract

Research on innovation failure has proliferated lately but with little theoretical attention given to the diversity of the concept. Using process theorizing, we present a model and propositions to understand how a firm's anticipation and value toward failure depends on the type of failure (task versus outcome) and the phase (divergent versus convergent) and point (early versus later) ‘within’ the process that the failure occurs. Using the anticipation-value stances, we then present a typology of four modes of innovation failure that can arise ‘from’ task and outcomes failure in the innovation process. The four modes (and associated learning response) are unsolicited failures (prevent-alert-eliminate); hazardous failures (predict-modify-mitigate); fortuitous failures (probe-expose-extrapolate); and excursive failures (facilitate-analyze-harness). To help explain the ideas in our process model and typology, we use the well-known IDEO shopping cart innovation project as an illustrative example. Together, these contributions provide contingency oriented insights on how failure varies and journeys within and from the innovation process, which helps researchers and managers to better understand the related causes, effects and learning responses.

什么会失败,何时失败?创新失败的过程视角
近来,有关创新失败的研究层出不穷,但理论界却很少关注这一概念的多样性。利用过程理论,我们提出了一个模型和命题,以了解企业对失败的预期和价值如何取决于失败的类型(任务还是结果)以及失败发生的 "过程 "中的阶段(发散还是收敛)和时间点(早期还是后期)。利用预期-价值立场,我们提出了创新失败的四种模式,这些模式可能 "源于 "创新过程中的任务和结果失败。这四种模式(以及相关的学习对策)分别是主动失败(预防-消除-消除);危险失败(预测-修改-缓解);偶然失败(探究-暴露-推断);游离失败(促进-分析-利用)。为了帮助解释我们的流程模型和类型学中的观点,我们以著名的 IDEO 购物车创新项目为例进行说明。总之,这些贡献提供了以突发事件为导向的洞察力,揭示了失败在创新过程中的变化和历程,有助于研究人员和管理人员更好地理解相关的原因、影响和学习对策。
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来源期刊
Technovation
Technovation 管理科学-工程:工业
CiteScore
15.10
自引率
11.20%
发文量
208
审稿时长
91 days
期刊介绍: The interdisciplinary journal Technovation covers various aspects of technological innovation, exploring processes, products, and social impacts. It examines innovation in both process and product realms, including social innovations like regulatory frameworks and non-economic benefits. Topics range from emerging trends and capital for development to managing technology-intensive ventures and innovation in organizations of different sizes. It also discusses organizational structures, investment strategies for science and technology enterprises, and the roles of technological innovators. Additionally, it addresses technology transfer between developing countries and innovation across enterprise, political, and economic systems.
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