Journal article
Move fast and break things! innovation-intensive strategy, organizational permissiveness, and corporate wrongdoing
Long range planning, Vol.56(2), p.102294
04/01/2023
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2023.102294
Abstract
With the revelation of questionably ethical practices at the world's most innovative firms, scholars and practitioners have begun to question whether a link might exist between innovation and wrongdoing. We introduce the concept of organizational permissiveness-i.e., tolerance of employees' norm-challenging behavior-to begin unpacking the relationships between cognitive norm-breaking, radical innovation, and corporate wrongdoing. We argue that organizational permissiveness partially mediates the effects of innovation-intensive strategy on innovation outcomes and multiple types of corporate wrongdoing. We analyze a sample of publicly held U.S. firms to demonstrate that the norm-breaking necessary for radical innovation also can produce corporate wrongdoing. Moreover, organizational permissiveness is a mechanism leading to both outcomes. We then use a smaller-sample quasi-experiment examining how merger and acquisition events affect individual scientists' patenting behavior. This provides further support for our hypothesized causal assertions.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Move fast and break things! innovation-intensive strategy, organizational permissiveness, and corporate wrongdoing
- Creators
- William Grieser - Texas Christian UniversityRyan Krause - Texas Christian UniversityRachel Li - University of AlabamaRichard Priem - Texas Christian UniversityAndrei Simonov - Michigan State University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Long range planning, Vol.56(2), p.102294
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.lrp.2023.102294
- ISSN
- 0024-6301
- eISSN
- 1873-1872
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 21
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/01/2023
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9984936838502771
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