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Project radicalness and maturity: a contingency model for the importance of enablers of technological innovation

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The article was published on 2003-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 4 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Maturity (finance) & Contingency theory.

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Stimulating Innovative Thinking

TL;DR: This article showed that certain types of dialogue can spur technical creativity and that coaching dialogues that support a scientist's autonomy while providing guidance can be particularly effective for staving off stammers.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the critical success factors that underlie excellent new product performance and found that the strongest driver of profitability is the existence of a high-quality, rigorous new product process, which emphasizes up-front homework, tough Go/Kill decision points, sharp early product definition, and flexibility.
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A passion for excellence: The leadership difference

TL;DR: Following In Search of Excellence as discussed by the authors is an avowed Whitman's sampler of the passion for excellence observed and celebrated, focusing on areas of competence that determine any organization's long-term excellence: superior service to customers or clients and constant innovation.
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Theories of organizational structure and innovation adoption: the role of environmental change

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop a more complex model for structure-innovation relationships, using stability and predictability variables of environmental change to predict the structural characteristics that facilitate adoption of innovations of different types at different stages.