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The success or failure of innovative ventures depends largely upon gaining and holding the support of organizational elites. This article presents analysis and strategies to elicit elite support initially, and develops the innovator's role in maintaining elite support for the innovation until its eventual implementation.
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George A. Kelley (1976) studied this question.
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