Accidental Innovation: Supporting Valuable Unpredictability in the Creative Process
Published Online:24 Aug 2011https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1110.0681
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Robert D. Austin, Lee Devin, Erin E. Sullivan, (2011) Accidental Innovation: Supporting Valuable Unpredictability in the Creative Process. Organization Science 23(5):1505-1522.
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The authors thank the many people who made time available for their case studies and the colleagues from the Harvard Business School, Copenhagen Business School, the C. T. Bauer School of Management at the University of Houston, and the School of Economics and Management at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and Microsoft who made suggestions on earlier versions of this paper. They are also indebted to anonymous reviewers and editors whose comments greatly improved this paper.
