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Success in innovation implementation
Increasingly, how well organisations innovate is becoming the single most important issue in determining their ultimate success. Referen- cing a variety of cases primarily drawn from governmental organisations, this paper argues that the key to successful innovation imple- mentation rests on the convergence of three different factors. First, an innovation must be properly framed in terms of stakeholders' expectations. Secondly, a good internal inno- vation environment must be present. Finally, the pros of speci®c attributes of innovations must outweigh their cons. The Eight other conditions, in which one or more of these fac- tors is not positive, result in differing degrees of success and failure, with different implications for organisational outcomes. These eight conditions, and their associated propositions, are discussed in terms of their heuristic value for bridging gaps in differing parties' under- standing of innovation processes and future directions for research, including the interaction of power and type of innovation