1. Determinants of Innovation in Organizations
2. Another hypothesis is that the lack of resources furthers innovation, because “necessity is the mother of invention.” However, none of the articles in this symposium find a negative relationship between resources and innovation: for example, Benton and Daly find that the availability of resources increases the rate of innovation. Rather, it may be that resource scarcity causes “crises” which, in turn, lead to innovations which require resources.