This chapter confronts several interrelated problems as to how the institutional environments
of organizations influence their innovativeness. Using a path-dependent perspective, it …

This chapter confronts several interrelated problems as to how the institutional environments
of organizations influence their innovativeness. Using a path-dependent perspective, it …

" This paper is a small part of a much larger historical and cross-national research agenda in
which the author has been engaged for more than a decade. The agenda has confronted …

This paper is concerned with the structural and cultural characteristics of research
organizations that influence the making of major discoveries in twentieth-century biomedical …

This book looks at the types of new research organizations that drive scientific innovation
and how ground-breaking science transforms research fields and their organization. Based …

This paper is a part of a research program analyzing how institutional and organizational
factors facilitate or hamper the making of major discoveries in basic biomedical science. 2 …

An ongoing interest in innovation studies is to understand how knowledge generated from
scientific research can be used in the development of technologies. While previous inquiries …

What factors affect a scientist's choice of research problem? Qualitative research in the
history and sociology of science suggests that this choice is patterned by an “essential …

This article summarizes the story of a failure in research, and shows how this failure led to
new directions of inquiry. The first part of the article explains how an attempt in France to …

We use a historical case study of the Institut Pasteur to articulate the concept of the
transformational organization in science, an organization with the capacity to make a large …