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Leveraging Resistance to Change and the Skunk Works Model of Innovation

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Economía de la Empresaes
dc.contributor.authorFosfuri, Andrea
dc.contributor.authorRønde, Thomas
dc.date.accessioned2010-01-27T09:44:04Z
dc.date.available2010-01-27T09:44:04Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractWe study a situation in which an R&D department promotes the introduction of an innovation that results in costly re-adjustments for production workers. In response, the production department tries to resist change by improving the existing technology. Resistance to change triggers competition between departments, which, in turn, spurs effort. We show that firms balancing the strengths of the two departments perform better. As a negative effect, resistance to change might distort the R&D department’s effort away from radical innovations. The firm can solve this problem by implementing the so-called skunk works model of innovation where the R&D department is isolated from the rest of the organization. Several implications for managing resistance to change and for the optimal design of R&D activities are derived.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationJournal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2009, v. 72, nº 1, pp. 274-289
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jebo.2009.05.008
dc.identifier.issn0167-2681
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage274
dc.identifier.publicationissue1
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage289
dc.identifier.publicationtitleJournal of Economic Behavior & Organization
dc.identifier.publicationvolume72
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/6644
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2009.05.008
dc.rights©Elsevier
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.subject.ecienciaEmpresa
dc.subject.jelL2
dc.subject.jelM12
dc.subject.jelM54
dc.subject.jelO31
dc.subject.jelO32
dc.subject.otherResistance to change
dc.subject.otherInnovation
dc.subject.otherSkunk works model
dc.subject.otherContest
dc.titleLeveraging Resistance to Change and the Skunk Works Model of Innovation
dc.typeresearch article*
dc.type.reviewPeerReviewed
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