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9 - Conclusion

Promising Themes, Emerging Topics

from Part III - Organizational Innovativeness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2026

Fariborz Damanpour
Affiliation:
Rutgers University, New Jersey
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Summary

This concluding chapter consists of two main sections. The first section draws from previous chapters to classify promising topics for future scholarship. These include the generation-adoption distinction, innovation process openness, abandonment of innovation, post-adoption decisions, and innovation compatibility and performance. The second section presents emerging topics that require innovative solutions. One emanates from the global issues including climate warming, air pollution, scarcity of drinking water, and contamination of seas. Addressing these issues requires repurposing innovation from organizational obligations only to public responsibilities also. Social, environmental, and responsible innovations are conferred. Two emanates from enduring, predominant positive connotation of innovation. Research has been focusing on the bright side of innovation only, ignoring its possible downside and dark side. Knowing that innovation involves risks, innovation process can fail, and negative consequences may occur, organizational innovation scholarship should aim to provide a more balanced portrayal of the bright side and downside of innovation, for the innovating organization, and for the public and natural environment. Articulating trade-off between positives and negatives of innovation is a commendable research endeavor with potential for addressing emerging topics of the twenty-first century in need of holistic innovative solutions.

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  • Conclusion
  • Fariborz Damanpour, Rutgers University, New Jersey
  • Book: Adoption of Innovation
  • Online publication: 28 July 2026
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009606943.013
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  • Conclusion
  • Fariborz Damanpour, Rutgers University, New Jersey
  • Book: Adoption of Innovation
  • Online publication: 28 July 2026
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009606943.013
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  • Conclusion
  • Fariborz Damanpour, Rutgers University, New Jersey
  • Book: Adoption of Innovation
  • Online publication: 28 July 2026
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009606943.013
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