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James Thompson, professor of business administration at the Graduate School of Business of Indiana University, attacks the innovation problem from the rear; he seeks to understand organizational innovation by imagining all the possible “switching points” in an organization at which an innovation could be side-tracked.
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Thompson, J. How to prevent innovation. Trans-action 2, 30 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03180797
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03180797