Entrepreneurship (Fach) / Organizational Complexity and Innovation - Developing and Testing Multiple Conti (Lektion)
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- 2 ways to measure an organization's complexity -organizational size -structural complexity
- structural complexity can be defined as a) Departmentization/functional differenciation --> extent to which a firm is split into different structural components/unis b) Role specialization --> variety of specialists working in an organization
- 8 contingency factors: Environmental uncertainty (complexity and variability) Organizational size Manufacturing / service sector profit / non-profit organization Adminstrative / technical innovations Product/process Radical/incremental innovation initiation and implementation
- Structural complexity / Organizational size and its relation to innovation in organizations operating under high than those operating under low environmental uncertainty -positive relation - both positively related as uncertainty is related to innovation
- Organizational size's relation to innovation in for-profit than in not-for-profit organizations. -positive relation only hold for big firms § Not-for-profit organizations are subject to greater influence by external political and regulatory institutions, are more constrained by external rules § External forces would limit the extent of innovation in not-for-profit organizations
- Structural complexity would be more positively related to technical than to administrative innovations. !!
- Organizational size would be more positively related to technical than to administrative innovations !!
- 7a. Structural complexity would be more positively related to radical than to incremental (less radical; producing less fundamental change) innovations. Supported 7b. Organizational size would be more positively related to radical than to incrementa !!