Phys.org October 12, 2022 Drawing upon the notion of boundaryless organizations and upon the information processing perspective of organizational design a team of researchers in the US (University of South Florida, University of Nebraska, University of Missouri) investigated the decompartmentalization of internal communication as a unique organizational context that moderates the relationship between R&D employees’ exploration behaviors and their individual inventive performance. They tested their hypotheses using a novel combination of survey and archival data. They found that R&D employees who explored more generated inventions that were more valuable only when in workplaces characterized by high communication decompartmentalization. Such workplaces […]
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Innovators Under 35, 2020
MIT Technology Review June 24, 2020 Every year the magazine highlights the projects young innovators are working on to show at least some of the possible directions that technology will take in the coming decade. This contest generates more than 500 nominations each year. The editors then face the task of picking 100 semifinalists to put in front of our 25 judges who have expertise in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, software, energy, materials, and so on. With the invaluable help of these rankings, the editors pick the final list of 35…read more.