Part 1 Complexity, organic structure and incremental innovation: Industry in the new age (New Society), Tom Burns; Program change and organizational properties - a comparative analysis (American Journal of Sociology), Jerald Hage, Michael Aiken; Size, centralization and organizational adoption of innovations (American Sociological Review), Michael Moch, E. Morse; Organizational innovation and structure (Journal of Business Research), Linsu Kim; Inventions from R&D - organizational designs for efficient research performance (Sociology), Frank Hull. Part 2 Values, strategy and risk taking: Innovation of health services - a comparative study of hospitals and health departments (Health and Society), Arnold Kaluzny et al; Elite values versus organizational structure in predicting innovation (Administrative Science Quarterly), Jerald Hage, Robert Dewar; Organizational innovation - a meta-analysis of effects of determinants and moderators (Academy of Management Journal), Fariburz Damenpor; Gaining advanced manufacturing technologies benefits - the role of organizational design and culture (Academy of Management Review), Raymond Zammuto, Edward O'Connor. Part 3 Stages of innovation and radical process innovation: A dynamic model of process and product innovation (OMEGA: The International Journal of Management Science), J.M. Utterback, W.J. Abernathy; Organizational strategy and structural differences for radical versus incremental innovation (Management Science), J.E. Ettlie et al; Organizational and technological predictors of change in automaticity (Academy of Management Journal), Paul Collins et al; A theory of radical innovation process for computer aided manufacturing technology (I.E.E.E. Transactions on Engineering Management), Donald Gerwin. Part 4 The consequences of innovation and the feedback process: Overcoming resistance to change (Human Relations), Lester Coch; Size, technology, complexity and structural differentiation - toward a theoretical synthesis (Adminis )

Despite the attractiveness of the idea of creative and flexible organizations, the topic of organizational innovation has never been central in either organizational theory and research. This collection of papers look at the role of organization in various industries.