Research on the Management of Innovation The Minnesota Studies [Paperback]

This is a reprint of a classic work of research on innovation first published in 1989. Resulting from the Minnesota Innovation Research Program (MIRP), the book includes a revised and expanded Preface and will complement the three other books growing out of the program, all published by Oxford--The Innovation Journey(1999),Organizational Change Processes: Theory and Methods for Research(2000), andHandbook of Organizational Change and Development(coming 2001).

List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Preface to the Original Edition
Section I: Overview of Research Program and Methods
1. An Introduction to the Minnesota Innovation Research Program,Andrew H. Van de Ven and Harold L. Angle
2. Methods for Studying Innovation Processes,Andrew H. Van de Ven and Marshall Scott Poole
3. A Psychometric Assessment of the Minnesota Innovation Survey,Andrew H. Van de Ven and Yun-han Chu
Section II: The Minnesota Innovation Research Program Framework
4. The Development of Innovation Ideas,Roger G. Schroeder, Andrew H. Van de Ven, Gary D. Scudder and Douglas Polley
5. Psychology and Organizational Innovation,Harold L. Angle
6. Formal and Informal Dimensions of Transactions,Peter Smith Ring and Andrew H. Van de Ven
7. Innovation Outcomes, Learning, and Action Loops,Bright M. Dornblaser, Tse-min Lin and Andrew H. Van de Ven
Section III: Studies of Business Creation
8. Processes of New Business Creation in Different Organizational Settings,Andrew H. Van de Ven, S. Venkataraman, Douglas Polley and Raghu Garud
Section IV: Studies of Administrative Innovations
9. The Process of Public Policy Innovation,Nancy C. Roberts and Paula J. King
10. Sensemaking, Understanding, and Committing: Emergent Interpersonal Transaction Processes in the lC