ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a status report on innovation literature across sectors, with an emphasis on organizational survival. Eleaner D. Glor examined the innovations of a population, the government of Saskatchewan, 1971–82, in deterministic and voluntaristic terms. While there is a considerable amount of research on the fate of organizations, there is little research on the fate of innovations or the fate of innovating organizations. Organizational communities often cross sectors and are typically local heterogeneous internal and external networks, consultations, collaborations, and other organizational community activities and supports for innovations. Glor’s frameworks emphasize the need to study the effects of innovation on organizations in numerous ways and suggest that different theoretical concepts, methodologies, and measures are needed to study different aspects of innovation effects. The effects or impacts of innovation depend as well on the support for the innovation and how well it is introduced.
