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Validation Inventive experimentation helps assess the predictive claims of existing theories and contributes to the creation of new theories. Inventive experimentation helps create interesting hypotheses for validation.

Experimentation There is value to a portfolio of management innovations being experimented on. Problems become defined and redefined in the process of experimentation, providing learning. Experimentation allows the serendipitous discovery of the unexpected. Experimentation allows us to learn

The Assumptions behind Inventive Experimentation

Variety in management practices is beneficial. Invention, rather than imitation, is key to evolution.

Invention accelerating management

There are scholars who can be inventive enough to create new management ideas and applications. Management innovation benefits from a hackinglike attitude: a sustained effort to tackle important, difficult Collaboration between academics and practitioners is beneficial to management Execu

Table 14.2 Assumptions problems. innovation.

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