Innovation Governance: How Top Management Organizes and Mobilizes for Innovation

CHAPTER 6

Which Models Seem to Work and Why?

The previous chapter listed a number of organizational models that companies typically choose for allocating responsibility for innovation, thus exercising their innovation governance mission. The question management is bound to raise is whether and under what conditions these models will work in practice. This chapter will try to answer this question and discuss how companies perceive the effectiveness – or inadequacy – of their innovation governance endeavors. To do so, we will characterize management's level of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the various organizational models that their company has adopted. The data in this chapter come from the results of our online survey, complemented by ...