The relationship between firm survival and innovation: An introduction to the literature (review)

SummaryThe recent growth of the Internet provides new perspectives in the study of the organisation’s constant struggle with technology. Innovation literature has grown vastly since its establishment in the 1920’s. The literature now covers a broad range of disciplines (Foxall 1984) and measures a wide variety of variables (Rogers 1995). At first glance, studies that look at the relationship between innovation and firm survival appear contradictory. But the results appear compatible when additional factors such as industry type, environment, organisational age, company size or the time length of the study are taken into account.