George Downs and Lawrence Mohr (1976) published a major critique of research on organizational innovation in which several major suggestions for the modification of innovation research toward the ends of theory development and cumulativeness were made. Although they developed several of the prescriptions independentlyDowns and Mohr are not referenced Richard Daft and Selwyn Becker have demonstrated the validity of many of Downs and Mohr's suggestions in their major new book, The Innovative Organization.
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Bluedorn et al. (1979) studied this question.