Experiments in Novelty

Jeffrey Goldstein, James K. Hazy and Benyamin B. Lichtenstein

Chapter Chapter 5 in Complexity and the Nexus of Leadership, 2010, pp 101-123 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract At the core of emergence—indeed at the core of our book—is how an ecology of innovation can produce unique experiments that have the potential to become seeds for unprecedented organizational action. This is particularly salient in the high-tech industry over the past few decades where an understanding of the workings of an ecology of innovation can explain a most baffling conundrum: why have some companies thrived while others that possess even more resources failed? Consider, for example, the difference between the rebirth of Apple Computer through the phenomenal success of the iPod and iPhone, compared with the unraveling of the “old” AT&T1 which had been a technological powerhouse at the dawn of the Internet age. Complexity science offers an incisive understanding of why an ecology of innovation took root and was enormously fruitful at Apple but at the same time ran into fatal obstacles at the old AT&T.

Keywords: Complexity Science; Generative Leadership; Richter Scale; Social Network Structure; Bell Curve (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230107717_5

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