Chapter 1 Why Innovations Fail: Organizational Processes and Structural Barriers to Innovations

Abstract

Strange and Soule (1998) outlined the processes of innovations as follows. “Innovations are novel (at least to the adopting community), making communication a necessary condition for adoption. Innovations are also culturally understood as progressive, strengthening the hand of change agents. And since innovations are risky and uncertain, adopters carefully weigh the experience of others before acting” (p. 267).

Citation

Sisaye, S. and Birnberg, J.G. (2012), "Chapter 1 Why Innovations Fail: Organizational Processes and Structural Barriers to Innovations", Sisaye, S. and Birnberg, J.G. (Ed.) An Organizational Learning Approach to Process Innovations: The Extent and Scope of Diffusion and Adoption in Management Accounting Systems (Studies in Managerial and Financial Accounting, Vol. 24), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-3512(2012)0000024005