Professional identification, perspective taking and the internal selection process for innovation

• Main Author: MACK, Daniel Z.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: innovation process; perspective taking; professional identification; Organizational Behavior and Theory; Technology and Innovation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5373
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this conceptual paper, we contend that one of the factors that gives rise to the challenges of maintaining a sustainable internal selection environment is the different structural roles that top and middle managers enact in the innovation process. We propose that the extent to which the differenc...