“Organizational research has unearthed a large number of cognitive, normative, and political factors that can stifle innovation or derail innovation processes. We therefore are frustrated that pushing innovation based on simple recipes and success factors is still the prevailing dogma of organizational leaders, consultancies, and prescriptive research papers. It reminds us of the frantic hunt for the next miracle diet guaranteeing weight loss in seven days. We strongly believe that unless leaders engage in an honest and critical diagnosis and evaluation of negative organizational factors and innovation hurdles, the well-meaning recommendations provided by the innovation literature may not have much impact.”

– Christian Seelos & Johanna Mair, “Innovation is Not the Holy Grail,” Fall, 2012