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Understanding Novelty in Organizations

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This chapter presents an overview of the main perspectives in the organization studies literature shaping novelty. Since no stream of research has yet focused primarily on novelty, this review builds on the collection of contributions that can be easily applied to novelty. Along an evolutionary perspective, six streams are considered: (1) population ecology; (2) neoinstitutionalism; (3) evolutionary economics; (4) dynamic capability theories and the resource-based view; (5) organizational learning and (6) organizational cognition. Novelty is positioned across them along three dimensions: level of analysis (population, organization and individual), source of novelty (exogenous, endogenous or combined), kind of novelty (type A—ingredient or type B—result, as introduced in Chap. 2). Moreover, the implicit main mechanism of evolution is clarified as Darwinian or Larmarkian.

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Frigotto, M.L. (2018). Novelty in Organization Studies. In: Understanding Novelty in Organizations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56096-0_3

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