Understanding Organization Change and Innovation: A Conversation with Mike Tushman

Professor Michael Tushman was selected as the 2016 Organization Development and Change Division’s Distinguished Scholar. Following his address, he sat down with John Amis to discuss his ideas on organizational change and innovation. Inspired by an early practical experience at a work placement while an undergraduate student, Mike has engaged in a career-long pursuit of seeking to understand how and why some organizations are able to successfully engage in programmes of change and innovation while others are not. Here he recounts his formative industry involvement that led to this fascination, the academic experiences that have helped him to develop into one of the field’s most productive scholars, and what he perceives to be the most interesting, and potentially important, questions that researchers of change could profitably investigate in the future.