Innovation ‐ Japanese style

Herbig, Paul; Palumbo, Frederick A.

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“…In contrast, Western social norms prioritize novelty, and emphasize that individuals should distinguish themselves from others. In the context of innovation, generating highly original or novel solutions is consistent with the novelty and individualistic social norms, while building on existing practices as in incremental innovation is consistent with a collectivist social norm (Herbig & Palumbo, ; Morris & Leung, ).…”

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Whose Time Is It? Understanding Clock-time Pacing and Event-time Pacing in Complex Innovations

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Time pacing, which refers to the regulation of intensity and direction of people's attention and effort, is central to innovation management. However, in a study of complex product innovation in pharmaceuticals, we find that time pacing is a major source of conflict between managers and scientists over innovation management. Our analysis of this tension reveals that two very different forms of time pacing operate in this complex innovation. Clock-time pacing, which gauges progress by the predictable passage of clock time, is used by strategic managers to reduce unnecessary exploration, focus on necessary questions, and speed up the execution of steps. Event-time pacing, which gauges progress by the unpredictable achievement of learning events, is used by the scientists to develop a deep understanding of how a drug might behave in the body against a disease, to focus on learning by asking many questions, and to integrate emergent results into plausible patterns. We identify four dimensions that differentiate clock-time pacing from event-time pacing, which drive the tension between the two. We summarize negative effects that this tension can have on innovation if left unaddressed, and then suggest ways to integrate clock-time pacing with event-time pacing. We also discuss implications for Chinese management.

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“…Incremental ideas extend and improve upon existing ones, whereas breakthrough ideas bring about whole new perspectives or insights. Innovation research has made this distinction, suggesting that different kinds of organizational routines and procedures, some of which might be influenced by national culture, could foster different types of innovation (e.g., Nelson and Winter, 1982; Herbig and Palumbo, 1996; Nagaoka and Walsh, 2009). Thus a fruitful area of future research is to investigate how cultural tightness and cultural distance affect the types of ideas that are generated.…”

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The Impact of Culture on Creativity

Chua

Roth

Lemoine

2014

Administrative Science Quarterly

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This paper advances a new theoretical model to understand the effect of culture on creativity in a global context. We theorize that creativity engagement and success depend on the cultural tightness-the extent to which a country is characterized by strong social norms and low tolerance for deviant behaviorsof both an innovator's country and the audience's country, as well as the cultural distance between these two countries. Using field data from a global online crowdsourcing platform that organizes creative contests for consumerproduct brands, supplemented by interviews with marketing experts, we found that individuals from tight cultures are less likely than counterparts from loose cultures to engage in and succeed at foreign creative tasks; this effect is intensified as the cultural distance between the innovator's and the audience's country increases. Additionally, tight cultures are less receptive to foreign creative ideas. But we also found that in certain circumstances-when members of a tight culture do creative work in their own or culturally close countriescultural tightness can actually promote creativity success. This finding implies that some degree of convergent thinking as engendered by tight cultures could be beneficial for creativity, challenging the dominant view in creativity research that divergent thinking is a prerequisite for creative performance.

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“…On the contrary, individuals in East Asian cultures may have less favorable reactions to artistic deviance because deviant artists do not fulfill the cultural ideal of conforming to normative standards (Kim & Markus, 1999). Different cultural ideals may also explain why East Asian cultures are more likely to foster incremental innovations, whereas Western cultures encourage more breakthrough ones (Herbig & Palumbo, 1996). Furthermore, the way people perceive individuals who deviate from the norm and the cultural values people endorse could account for the differential evolution of art movements in different parts of the world.…”

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The art of influence: When and why deviant artists gain impact.

Stamkou¹,

Kleef²,

Homan³

2018

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Some artists rise to fame, while others sink into oblivion. What determines whether artists make an impact? Considering deviance in its sociohistorical context, we propose that artists whose work deviates from their own previous style (intrapersonal deviance) and other artists' styles (interpersonal deviance) gain greater impact than nondeviant artists, as long as deviance is directed toward a progressive style. A preliminary study showed that in western cultures nonrealistic styles are considered more progressive than realistic styles (Study 1). Five more studies provide evidence for the effects of the two types of artistic deviance on several aspects of impact (i.e., perceived influence of the artist, valuation of the artwork, and visual attention to the artwork). First, individuals considered artists who deviated from their previous style more impactful than artists who consistently followed a single style (Study 2), effects that were stronger when artists transitioned from a retrogressive style to a progressive one (Study 3). Second, artists who deviated from their contemporaries' style were considered more impactful than artists who followed the predominant style, effects that were stronger when artists strayed from a predominant retrogressive style by using progressive means of expression (Studies 4 and 5). When the historical context prevented observers from inferring the progressiveness of the deviant artists' expressive means, artistic deviance enhanced perceived impact regardless of the means by which the artists deviated (Study 6). Supporting our theoretical model, the effects of intrapersonal and interpersonal deviance on impact were mediated by perceived will-power (Studies 3, 5, and 6). (PsycINFO Database Record

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Innovation ‐ Japanese style

Cited by 16 publications

References 29 publications

Whose Time Is It? Understanding Clock-time Pacing and Event-time Pacing in Complex Innovations

Whose Time Is It? Understanding Clock-time Pacing and Event-time Pacing in Complex Innovations

The Impact of Culture on Creativity

The art of influence: When and why deviant artists gain impact.

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