Innovations in Organizations: Appropriateness of Perspectives From Small Group Studies for Strategy Formulation

Abstract

Some dimensions of innovations appropriate to processes have been closely examined in the small group, mainly experimental, literature for the purpose of illuminating the process of innovation in organizations. The processes selected are learning, communication, deviance, risk taking, creativity and brainstorming, leadership, and cohesiveness. It is argued that small group processes can offer much to the understanding of organi-zational processes, for example, innovation and strategy formulation.