Paper Info
Title
Innovating mindfully with information technology
Abstract
Although organizational innovation with information technology is often carefully considered, bandwagon phenomena indicate that much innovative behavior may nevertheless be of the "me too" variety. In this essay, we explore such differences in innovative behavior. Adopting a perspective that is both institutional and cognitive, we introduce the notion of mindful innovation with IT. A mindful firm attends to an IT innovation with reasoning grounded in its own organizational facts and specifics. We contrast this with mindless innovation, where a firm's actions betray an absence of such attention and grounding. We develop these concepts by drawing on the recent appearance of the idea of mindfulness in the organizational literature, and adapting it for application to IT innovation. We then bring mindfulness and mindlessness together in a larger theoretical synthesis in which these apparent opposites are seen to interact in ways that help to shape the overall landscape of opportunity for organizational innovation with IT. We conclude by suggesting several promising new research directions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.2307/25148655
MIS Quarterly
Keywords
Field
DocType
own organizational fact,innovative behavior,organizational literature,mindful firm,bandwagon phenomenon,organizing vision,it innovation,apparent opposite,organizational mindlessness,organizational mindfulness,information technology innovation,information technology,organizational innovation,mindful innovation,innovating mindfully,bandwagon phenomena,mindless innovation
Mindfulness,Information technology,Organizational commitment,Knowledge management,Psychology,Cognition,Management science,It innovation,Bandwagon effect,Organizational innovation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
28
4
0276-7783
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
298
13.24
30
Authors
2
Search Limit
100298
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
E. Burton Swanson11431249.23
Neil C. Ramiller261550.44