The process of framing innovation activities: How strategic leaders erode their ideas for radical innovations

IF 7.5 1区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

Research Policy Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI:10.1016/j.respol.2024.105107

Renate Kratochvil

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Abstract

Understanding what impedes and facilitates radical innovation is crucial. This study introduces a process perspective on managerial cognition into the strategic leadership literature to elucidate the dynamics that contribute to idea erosion during the development of radical innovation. Employing a framing perspective and utilizing longitudinal data from a single case, this study presents a process model of strategic leaders' framing-induced idea erosion. At the heart of this process are two dynamics. First is a dynamic consisting of the anticipation of innovation that fails to account for the necessary iterative process, leading to a growing mismatch between expectations and activities. Second is a dynamic consisting of cognitive processes, where strategic leaders frame this mismatch as a failure, this intensifying over time. This study shows that strategic leaders tend to favor incremental over radical innovation, not due to a shortage of ideas but because they frame their activities as failures.

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制定创新活动框架的过程：战略领导者如何削弱其激进创新的想法

了解阻碍和促进激进创新的因素至关重要。本研究在战略领导力文献中引入了管理认知的过程视角，以阐明在激进创新发展过程中导致理念侵蚀的动态因素。本研究采用框架视角，并利用来自单一案例的纵向数据，提出了战略领导者的框架诱导创意侵蚀的过程模型。这一过程的核心是两个动态过程。第一种动力是对创新的预期，这种预期没有考虑到必要的迭代过程，导致预期与活动之间的不匹配日益加剧。其次是由认知过程构成的动态，战略领导者将这种不匹配视为失败，并随着时间的推移而加剧。本研究表明，战略领导者倾向于渐进式创新而非激进式创新，这并不是因为他们缺乏创意，而是因为他们将自己的活动视为失败。

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Research Policy MANAGEMENT-

CiteScore

12.80

自引率

6.90%

发文量

182

期刊介绍： Research Policy (RP) articles explore the interaction between innovation, technology, or research, and economic, social, political, and organizational processes, both empirically and theoretically. All RP papers are expected to provide insights with implications for policy or management. Research Policy (RP) is a multidisciplinary journal focused on analyzing, understanding, and effectively addressing the challenges posed by innovation, technology, R&D, and science. This includes activities related to knowledge creation, diffusion, acquisition, and exploitation in the form of new or improved products, processes, or services, across economic, policy, management, organizational, and environmental dimensions.