Managing innovation successfully [Elektronische Ressource] : the value of contextual fit / vorgelegt von Ronald Bledow
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Managing innovation successfully [Elektronische Ressource] : the value of contextual fit / vorgelegt von Ronald Bledow

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Managing Innovation Successfully: The Value of Contextual Fit Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Philosophie des Fachbereiches 06 der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen vorgelegt von Ronald Bledow aus Gießen 2009 Dekan/in: Prof. Dr. Joachim Stiensmeier-Pelster 1. Berichterstatter: Prof. Dr. Michael Frese 2. Berichterstatter: Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Gemünden Acknowledgements First of all, I would like to thank my mentor Michael Frese for providing me with support, freedom, and trust. I would also like to thank Hans-Georg Gemünden for serving as the second examiner of my dissertation and for supporting an ambitious time schedule. Many ideas of this dissertation were stimulated through discussions with and feedback from scholars in different countries and disciplines. I would like to thank Neil Anderson, Andreas Bausch, Miriam Erez, James Farr, David Hofmann, Julius Kuhl, Filip Lievens, Robert Lord, and Shaker Zahra. I would like to thank Jana Kühnel for her support as a friend and colleague and my mother, Sylvia Bledow, for proofreading this manuscript. Moreover, I would like to thank my colleague Kathrin Rosing for the great teamwork and for valuable comments on my dissertation.

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Managing Innovation Successfully:
The Value of Contextual Fit



Inaugural-Dissertation
zur
Erlangung des Doktorgrades
der Philosophie des Fachbereiches 06
der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen


vorgelegt von

Ronald Bledow

aus Gießen


2009





























Dekan/in: Prof. Dr. Joachim Stiensmeier-Pelster
1. Berichterstatter: Prof. Dr. Michael Frese
2. Berichterstatter: Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Gemünden

Acknowledgements
First of all, I would like to thank my mentor Michael Frese for providing me with
support, freedom, and trust. I would also like to thank Hans-Georg Gemünden for serving as
the second examiner of my dissertation and for supporting an ambitious time schedule.
Many ideas of this dissertation were stimulated through discussions with and feedback
from scholars in different countries and disciplines. I would like to thank Neil Anderson,
Andreas Bausch, Miriam Erez, James Farr, David Hofmann, Julius Kuhl, Filip Lievens,
Robert Lord, and Shaker Zahra.
I would like to thank Jana Kühnel for her support as a friend and colleague and my
mother, Sylvia Bledow, for proofreading this manuscript.
Moreover, I would like to thank my colleague Kathrin Rosing for the great teamwork
and for valuable comments on my dissertation. I would also like to thank my colleagues
Michael Gielnick, Anna-Maria Heintze, Nina Rosenbusch, Antje Schmitt, Holger Steinmetz,
Katharina Tornau, and Hannes Zacher for many fruitful discussions and the good time we had
together.
I am grateful to a great team of capable and ambitious students who were involved in
data collection: Katrin Freund, Lisa Hopfinger, Mona Wolf, and the team of students of the
research-project class 2007/2008. Kerstin Schaupp did an outstanding job in collecting data
for the first empirical study.
I also thank the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for repeated funding
(e.g. D/08/45383) and the Volkswagen Foundation for enabling me to continue the research of
my dissertation (II/82 408).
Finally, I would like to thank my mother, my father, and my sisters for their emotional
support. Special thanks go to you, Elisa!

Abstract
Innovation - the development and implementation of novel and useful ideas - lies at the heart
of human adaptation. Individuals are creative in solving novel problems and exploiting
opportunities. Work teams and organizations develop and implement new products and
processes. This dissertation examines the mental processes, individual behaviors, and
coordinated actions in social systems from which innovation emerges in real-world settings.
The author develops a dialectic perspective which views innovation as the result of a dynamic
interplay between contradictory forces. Based on this theoretical perspective, three empirical
studies are conducted towards the goal of an improved understanding of innovation. First, the
author shows that creativity requires an integration of different affective and cognitive
functions. Personality differences play an important role in determining in which work
situation this integration occurs. Second, the author specifies conditions under which active
performance is mostly likely in research and development teams. Active performance is
characterized by high motivational intensity and proactivity. It occurs if there is congruence
between a person’s orientation and the work context. Third, the author examines effective
modes of managing innovation implementation. The distribution of roles between a leader and
team members is found to be critical for implementation success. The findings of the three
empirical studies are integrated by applying the concept of contextual fit. It is argued that
innovation is most likely to succeed under conditions of contextual fit, because contextual fit
leads to optimal functioning. Practical recommendations that can help to achieve contextual
fit and hence optimal functioning are expressed in terms of if-then statements.
Table of Contents
General Introduction ............................................................................................................... 6
References ...................................................................................................................... 9
Chapter 1 - A Dialectic Perspective on Innovation: Conflicting Demands,
Multiple Pathways, and Ambidexterity ............................................................................... 10
1.1. Introduction ...................................................................................................... 11
1.2. Tensions of innovation: Theoretical perspectives ............................................ 12
1.3. A dialectic review of research on innovation at
multiple organizational levels ........................................................................... 21
1.4. Ambidexterity: Managing conflicting demands at
multiple orga 32
1.5. A dialectic perspective on the science and practice
of innovation management ............................................................................... 45
1.6. References ........................................................................................................ 51
Chapter 2 - Signatures of Creativity: An Integration of
Intraindividual Processes, Personality, and Work Situation ............................................. 61
2.1. Introduction ...................................................................................................... 62
2.2. Affect and creativity ......................................................................................... 63
2.3. Personality systems interaction theory and creativity ...................................... 65
2.4. Action versus state orientation and creativity .................................................. 69
2.5. Method ............................................................................................................. 76
2.6. Results .............................................................................................................. 81
2.7. Discussion ........................................................................................................ 89
2.8. References ........................................................................................................ 97
Chapter 3 - Active Performance in Research and Development:
The Value of Contextual Fit ................................................................................................ 103
3.1. Introduction .................................................................................................... 104
3.2. Method ........................................................................................................... 112
3.3. Results ............................................................................................................ 115
3.4. Discussion ...................................................................................................... 119
3.5. References ...................................................................................................... 124
3.6. Appendix ........................................................................................................ 128
Chapter 4 - Innovation Implementation in Leader-Team Systems:
Effective Modes of Management ......................................................................................... 129
4.1. 130
4.2. Modes of managing implementation in leader-team systems ........................ 131
4.3. Method ........................................................................................................... 140
4.4. Results ............................................................................................................ 146
4.5. Discussion ...................................................................................................... 154
4.6. References ...................................................................................................... 161
General Conclusion .............................................................................................................. 165
German Summary [Deutsche Zusammenfassung] ............................................................ 171
References .................................................................................................................. 1786
General Introduction
The goal of this dissertation is to contribute to the theoretical understanding of
innovation and to inform innovation management by deriving practical implications that are
based on a dialectic theory perspective and that are grounded in empirical research. In the first
chapter a dialectic perspective of innovation is developed that aims at integrating past
research on innovation and that provides a theoretical framework for research and practice.
The three empirical chapters address specific research questions within the dialectic
perspective on conditions that are supportive of different aspects of the innovation process.

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