Organizing for Innovative Product Development

Allen, T. J., D. B. Hyman, and D. L. Pinckney. “Transferring Technology to the Small Firm: A Study of Technology Transfer in Three Countries.” Research Policy 12, no. 4 (1983): 199-211.

O’Shea, R. P., T. J. Allen, A. Chevalier, and F. Roche. “Entrepreneurial Orientation, Technology Transfer and Spinoff Performance of U.S. Universities.” Research Policy 34, no. 7 (2006): 994-1009.

Stokes, Donald E. Pasteur’s Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation . Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780815781776.

Allen, Thomas J. “Distinguishing Engineers from Scientists.” In The Human Side of Managing Technological Innovation . Edited by Ralph Katz. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780195135312.

SES #: 5 · TOPICS: Reward systems for engineers and scientists · READINGS: Allen, Thomas J., and Ralph Katz. “The Dual Ladder: Motivational Solution or Managerial Delusion?” R&D Management 16, no. 2 (1986): 185-197.

SES #: 6 · TOPICS: The innovation process: How should we organize? · READINGS: Allen, Thomas J., and Gunter Henn. The Organization and Architecture of Innovation: Managing the Flow of Technology . Oxford, UK: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2006, chapter 1. ISBN: 9780750682367.

Allen, Thomas J., and Gunter Henn. The Organization and Architecture of Innovation: Managing the Flow of Technology . Oxford, UK: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2006, chapter 2-3. ISBN: 9780750682367.

Allen, Thomas J., and Gunter Henn. The Organization and Architecture of Innovation: Managing the Flow of Technology . Oxford, UK: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2006, chapters 4-5. ISBN: 9780750682367.

SES #: 9 · TOPICS: The downside of project organization: Conformity and the aging of project teams · READINGS: Katz, Ralph, and Thomas J. Allen. “Investigating the Not Invented Here (NIH) Syndrome: A Look at the Performance, Tenure, and Communication Patterns of 50 R&D Project Groups.” R&D Management 12, no. 1 (1982): 7-20.

SES #: 10 · TOPICS: The matrix: Curse or asset? · READINGS: Hansen, Morten T., Marie Louise Mors, and Bjørn Løvås. “Knowledge Sharing in Organizations: Multiple Networks, Multiple Phases.” Academy of Management Journal 48, no. 5 (2005): 776-793.

SES #: 11 · TOPICS: Physical space and its interaction with organizational space · READINGS: Allen, Thomas J., and Gunter Henn. The Organization and Architecture of Innovation: Managing the Flow of Technology . Oxford, UK: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2006, chapter 4. ISBN: 9780750682367.

Sections referred in the table below are from the main textbook: Lewicki, Roy, David Saunders, John Minton, and Bruce Barry. Negotiation: Readings, Exercises and Cases . New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 0072429658.

Modules are from the following textbook: Ancona, Deborah, Thomas Kochan, Maureen Scully, Eleanor Westney, and John VanMaanen. Managing for the Future: Organizational Behavior and Processes . 3rd ed. Mason, Ohio: South-Western College Pub., 2005. ISBN: 0324055757. (Written by Sloan School faculty members.)

_Readings Distributed Separately _ Walton, Richard E., Joel E. Cutcher-Gershenfeld, and Robert B. McKersie. Strategic Negotiations . Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1994, Foreward and Chapter 3. ISBN: 0875845517.

Rowe, Mary P., and Michael Baker. “Are You Hearing Enough Employee Concerns?” Harvard Business Review 62, no. 3 (May-June, 1984): 127-136. (Boston, MA.)

_Readings Distributed Separately _ Tufte, Edward R. The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint . Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 2003. ISBN: 0961392150.

Readings Distributed Separately

Cutcher-Gershenfeld, J. E. “Bargaining Over How to Bargain in Labor-Management Negotiations.” Negotiation Journal 10 (1994): 323-335.

Most of the readings for the course come from a textbook entitled:

Lewicki, Roy, David Saunders, John Minton, and Bruce Barry. Negotiation: Readings, Exercises and Cases. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2002. ISBN: 0072429658.

Some other readings will be distributed in the class. Others are from the text for ESD.932, which is entitled: Managing for the Future: Organizational Behavior and Processes. 3rd ed. Mason, Ohio: South-Western College Pub., 2005. ISBN: 0324055757, written by a team of Sloan School faculty members Deborah Ancona, Thomas Kochan, Maureen Scully, Eleanor Westney, and John VanMaanen.