The Innovation Journey

Biography: Andrew H. Van de Ven directed the research project that resulted in this book. As head of the Minnesota Innovation Research Program (MIRP) in the Strategic Management Research Center at the University of Minnesota, he leads a team studying organizational innovation and change. His books and journal articles over the years have dealt with the Nominal Group Technique, the Organization Assessment Framework and Instruments, inter-organizational relationships, and methods for building theories and designing research studies. He is Vernon H. Heath Professor of Organizational Innovation and Change in the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.

Douglas E. Polley conducts research in organizational learning, innovation, and the applications of chaos and complexity theory to organizations. His Ph.D. is from Carlson School of Management where he first worked in the MIRP studies on organizational innovation and change. Before completing his Ph.D. he worked for twelve years in data communications software and marketing. He is Associate Professor of Management at St. Cloud State University.

Raghu Garud is currently studying new organizational forms, processes of path creation and path dependence, and the emergence of new technology sectors like Silicon Alley. He completed his Bachelors of Technology (1978) from the Indian Institute of Technology, India, and MBA (1980) from Xavier Institute, India. After working as a project manager charged with the responsibility of transferring technology from firms in Japan to a manufacturing firm in India, he entered and completed his Ph.D. at the Carlson School of Management where he began his work in the MIRP studies. He is Associate Professor of Management and Organization Behavior at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.

S. Venkataraman began his work on the MIRP studies while he was studying for his Ph.D. at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. Prior to that he received his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management at Calcutta and a master's degree in economics from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India. He is currently the Samuel L. Slover Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. He is also Director of Research of the Batten Center of Entrepreneurial Leadership.

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