The Influence of Hierarchy on Idea Generation and Selection in the Innovation Process

The authors thank Gino Cattani, Laura Cardinal, Vinit Desai, J. P. Eggers, Christina Fang, Giovanni Gavetti, Deepak Hegde, Henry Sauermann, Jill Perry-Smith, and brownbag participants at NYU Stern for their helpful contributions and comments on earlier versions of this manuscript. They also thank participants at the 2015 Vienna conference, 2014 Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference (ACAC) conference, and the 2014 Academy of Management annual meeting where this paper was a finalist and winner of two different paper awards from the Technology and Innovation Management Division.