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The routinization of innovation research: a constructively critical review of the state‐of‐the‐science
Author(s) -
Anderson Neil,
De Dreu Carsten K. W.,
Nijstad Bernard A.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of organizational behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.938
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1099-1379
pISSN - 0894-3796
DOI - 10.1002/job.236
Subject(s) - replication (statistics) , psychology , innovation process , content analysis , knowledge management , triangulation , sociology , business , computer science , marketing , social science , work in process , mathematics , statistics , geometry
In this review we argue that facilitators of innovation at the individual, group, and organizational levels have been reliably identified, and that validated process models of innovation have been developed. However, a content analysis of selected research published between 1997 and 2002 suggests a routinization of innovation research, with a heavy focus on replication–extension, cross‐sectional designs, and a single level of analysis. We discuss five innovative pathways for future work: Study innovation as an independent variable, across cultures, within a multi‐level framework, and use meta‐analysis and triangulation. To illustrate we propose a ‘distress‐related innovation’ model of the relations between negatively connotated variables and innovation at the individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.