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AP/ADMS 4940

Innovation Management

3.0 credits

Fall 2026

Topics

  • Sources and measurement of innovation
  • Disruptive and radical innovation
  • Competition and responses by established firms
  • Innovation partnerships and intellectual-property protection
  • Selecting innovation investments
  • Organizational design and creativity
  • Digital platforms and ecosystems
  • Adoption and management of artificial intelligence

Readings

  • Birkinshaw, Bouquet and Barsoux (2011), The 5 Myths of Innovation.
  • Fuller, Tekic and Hutter (2024), Rethinking Innovation Management – How AI Is Changing the Way We Innovate.
  • Richtner et al. (2017), Creating Better Innovation Measurement Practices.
  • Christensen, Raynor and McDonald (2015), What Is Disruptive Innovation?
  • Hill (1997), Establishing a Standard: Competitive Strategy and Technological Standards in Winner-Take-All Industries.
  • Stringer (2000), How to Manage Radical Innovation.
  • Birkinshaw (2023), How Incumbent Firms Respond to Emerging Technologies.
  • Chang and Sokol (2022), How Incumbents Respond to Competition from Innovative Disruptors in the Sharing Economy – The Impact of Airbnb on Hotel Performance.
  • Arena et al. (2017), How to Catalyze Innovation in Your Organization.
  • Hoang and Rothaermel (2016), How to Manage Alliances Strategically.
  • Pisano and Teece (2007), How to Capture Value from Innovation: Shaping Intellectual Property and Industry Architecture.
  • Day (2007), Is It Real? Can We Win? Is It Worth Doing? Managing Risk and Reward in an Innovation Portfolio.
  • Kandybin (2009), Which Innovation Efforts Will Pay?
  • Reitzig (2011), Is Your Company Choosing the Best Innovation Ideas?
  • Hirst et al. (2011), How Does Bureaucracy Impact Individual Creativity? A Cross-Level Investigation of Team Contextual Influences on Goal Orientation-Creativity Relationships.
  • Argyres, Rios and Silverman (2020), Organizational Change and the Dynamics of Innovation: Formal R&D Structure and Intrafirm Inventor Networks.
  • Angstrom et al. (2023), Getting AI Implementation Right: Insights from a Global Survey.
  • Garud et al. (2020, as cited), Liminal Movement by Digital Platform-Based Sharing Economy Ventures: The Case of Uber Technologies.
  • Chung, Zhou and Choi (2025), When Uber Eats Its Own Business, and Its Competitors' Too: Resource Exclusivity and Oscillation Following Platform Diversification.
  • Wang and Miller (2020), Complementors' Engagement in an Ecosystem: A Study of Publishers' E-Book Offerings on Amazon Kindle.
  • Zhao (2006), Conducting R&D in Countries with Weak Intellectual Property Rights Protection.
  • Vuori and Huy (2016), Distributed Attention and Shared Emotions in the Innovation Process: How Nokia Lost the Smartphone Battle.
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