Minnesota Innovation Research Program page of
Andrew H. Van de Ven

Vernon H. Heath Professor of Organizational Innovation and Change
University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management

Contact Information

Strategic Management and Organization
3-402 Carlson School of Management
321 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

ph: 612-624-1864
Fax: 612-625-6822
avandeven@csom.umn.edu
http://umn.edu/~avandeve

Minnesota Innovation Research Program

Introduction
Organization Change and Innovation
Business Creation and Entrepreneurship
Relationships and Infrastructure for Innovation
Methods for Studying Organizational Change Processes

This page links you to the papers and books from the Minnesota Innovation Research Program (MIRP). Since 1983 this research program has been engaged in longitudinal field studies that track the development of a wide variety of innovations from concept to implementation.

The initial findings from the MIRP studies were published in a book edited by A. H. Van de Ven, H. L. Angle, and M. S. Poole, Research on the Management of Innovation: The Minnesota Studies. New York: Ballinger/Harper & Row, 1989.

Awarded Honorable Mention in the business and management category of the 1989 Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards by the Association of American Publishers in New York, February 1990.
Selected as a finalist for the 1991 Academy of Management George R. Terry Book Award, which is awarded to the book that made the most outstanding contribution to the advancement of management knowledge.

A synthesis of the findings from this 17-year MIRP was published in A. Van de Ven, D. Polley, R. Garud, & S. Venkatraman, The Innovation Journey, New York, Oxford University Press, 1999.

Selected as a finalist for the George Terry Book award for the book that made the most significant scholarly contribution to the advancement of management by the Academy of Management, August 2000.
Selected as the 4th Best Management Book of 1999 by Management General website, which receives more than 2 million hits a year.
Awarded Honorable Mention in the areas of business publications by the American Association of Publishers in New York, December, 1999.
Translated into Spanish, El Viaje de Innovacion, Mexico, Oxford University Press, Mexico, 2001.

The new methods developed in MIRP for studying processes of organization innovation and change are presented in M. S. Poole, A. H. Van de Ven, K. Dooley, and M. Holmes, Organization Change and Innovations Processes: Theory and Methods for Research. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Awarded best book of 2000-2001 by Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association, November 2001.

A synthesis of what social science has found about how and why change unfolds in individuals, groups, organizations, and larger networks is available in this handbook edited by M. S. Poole and A. Van de Ven, Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation. New York, Oxford, 2004, 429 pages.

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Organization Change and Innovation

1985	Andrew H. Van de Ven, Spinning on symbolism: The problem of ambivalence, Journal of Management, 11(2): 101-102.
1986	Andrew H. Van de Ven, Central problems in the management of innovation, Management Sciences, 32(5): 590-607.
1986	Andrew Van de Ven, Roger Schroeder, Gary Scudder, & Douglas Polley, Managing innovation and change processes: Findings from the Minnesota Innovation Research Program, Agribusiness Management Journal, 2(4): 501-523.
1988	Andrew H. Van de Ven and Marshall Scott Poole, Paradoxical Requirements for a Theory of Organizational Change, in Robert Quinn and Kim Cameron (Eds.), Paradox and transformation: Toward a theory of change in Organization and Mangement, Cambridge, MA: Ballinger.
1992	Andrew H. Van de Ven and Douglas Polley, Learning while innovating, Organization Science, 3(2): 92-116.
1993	Andrew H. Van de Ven, Managing the process of organizational innovation. In G. P. Huber (Ed.)., Organizational change, redesign, and performance (pp. 269-294). London: Oxford University Press.
1995	Andrew H. Van de Ven and Marshall Scott Poole, Explaining development and change in organizations. Academy of Management Review, 20(3): 510-540.
1995	Andrew H. Van de Ven, Organizational change, feature entry for Dictionary of Organizational Behavior (pp. 366-373), edited by N. Nicholsen, London: Basil Blackwell.
1995	Andrew H. Van de Ven, Innovation, Dictionary of Organizational Behavior (pp. 233-237), edited by N. Nicholsen, London: Basil Blackwell.
1996	Yu-Ting Cheng and Andrew H. Van de Ven, Learning the innovation journey: Order out of chaos? Organization Science, 7(6): 593-614.
1996	Douglas Polley and Andrew H. Van de Ven, Learning by discovery during innovation development. International Journal of Mangement, (Special issue on Unlearning and Learning), 11(7/8): 871-882.
1997	Andrew H. Van de Ven and David N. Grazman, Technological innovation, learning and leadership. In Ragu Garud, Praveen Nayyar, and Aur Shapira (Eds.), Technological innovation: Oversights and foresights (pp. 279-305). New York: Cambridge University Press.
1999	Kevin J. Dooley and Andrew H. Van de Ven, Explaining complex organizational dynamics. Organization Science, 10(3): 358-372.
2000	Shobha S. Das and Andrew H. Van de Ven, Competing with new product technologies: A process model of strategy. Mangement Science, 46(10): 1300-1316.
2002	Andrew H. Van de Ven, Running in Packs versus going it alone in the global network economy, e-paper pabulished by Brown-Herron Publishers, ISBN: B000068RW9; (June 3, 2002), distributed by Amazon.com at
2002	Raghu Garud and Andrew Van de Ven, Strategic change processes. In A. Pettigrew, H. Thomas, & R. Whittington (Eds.), Handbook of strategy and management (pp. 206-231). Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications, 2002.
2005	Andrew H. Van de Ven, Innovation, entry in Nigel Nicholson, Pino Audia, and Madan Pitula (Eds.), Encyclopedic Dictionary of Organizational Behavior (rev. ed.). London: Blackwell.
2005	Andrew H. Van de Ven, Organization change, entry in Nigel Nicholson, Pino Audia, and Madan Pitula (Eds.), Encyclopedic Dictionary of Organizational Behavior (rev. ed.). London: Blackwell. top

Business Creation and Entrepreneurship

1980	Andrew H. Van de Ven, Early planning, implementation, and performance of new organizations. In John R. Kimberly and Robert H. Miles (Eds.), The organization life cycle: New perspectives for organizational design and development. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
1980	Andrew H. Van de Ven, Problem solving, planning, and innovation, part 1: Text of the program planning model. Human Relations, 33(10), pp. 711-740.
1980	Andrew H. Van de Ven, Problem solving, planning, and innovation, part II: Speculations for theory and practice. Human Relations, 33(11): 757-797.
1984	Andrew Van de Ven, Roger Hudson, and Dean Schroeder, Designing new business startups: entrepreneurial, organizational and ecological considerations. Journal of Management, 10.
1990	S. Venkataraman, A. H. Van de Ven, J. S. Buckeye, and R. Hudson, Starting up in a turbulent environment: A process model of failure among firms with high customer dependence, Journal of Business Venturing, 5(5): 277-296.
1992	Raghu Garud and Andrew H. Van de Ven, An empirical evaluation of the internal corporate venturing process. Strategic Management Journal, 13. Selected as the best contribution in 1991 to entrepreneurship theory and research by a judging committee from the Stern School of New York University. Reprinted in Krueger, N. (Ed.), Entrepreneurship: Critical perspectives in business and management, 4, London: Routledge, 2002.
1998	S. Venkataraman and Andrew H. Van de Ven, Hostile environmental jolts, transaction sets, and new business development. Journal of Business Venturing, 13(3): 231-255.
2002	Scott Johnson and Andrew Van de Ven, A Framework for Entrepreneurial Strategy. In M. A. Hitt, R. D. Ireland, S. M. Camp, & D. L. Sexton (Eds.), Strategic entrepreneurship: Creating a new mindset (pp. 66-86). Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, Ltd.
2004	Andrew Van de Ven and Rhonda M. Engleman, Event and outcome driven explanations of entrepreneurship, Journal of Business Venturing, 19: 343-358.
2004	Andrew H. Van de Ven and Rhonda M. Engleman, Central problems in managing corporate innovation and entrpreneurship. Advances in entrepreneurship, firm emergence and growth (pp. 47-72). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 7.
2005	Van de Ven, A. H., & Poole, M. S. Alternative approaches for studying organizational change. Organization Studies, 26(9): 1377-1400. top

Relationships and Infrastructure for Innovation

1987	Raghu Garud and Andrew Van de Ven, Innovation and the emergence of industries, competitively selected as one of top three papers by the R&D/Technology/Innovation Division at Academy of Management Conference, New Orleans (August).
1989	Andrew H. Van de Ven and Raghu Garud, A Framework for understanding the emergence of new industries. In Richard S. Rosenbloom and Robert Burgelman (Eds.), Research on technological innovation, management, and policy, 4. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
1993	Andrew H. Van de Ven and Raghu Garud, The co-evolution of technological and institutional innovations. In J. Singh and J. Baum (Eds.), Evolutionary dynamics of organizations. New York: Oxford University Press.
1993	Andrew H. Van de Ven, The emergence of an industrial infrastructure for technological innovation. Journal of Comparative Economics, 17(2): 338-365.
1993	Andrew H. Van de Ven, A community perspective on the emergence of innovations. Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, 10: 23-51.
1993	Andrew H. Van de Ven, The development of an infrastructure for entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Venturing, 8:211-230.
1993	Andrew H. Van de Ven and Raghu Garud, Innovation and industry development: The case of cochlear implants. In R. Burgelman and R. Rosenbloom (Eds.), Research on Technological Innovation, Management, and Policy (pp. 1-46), V, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
1994	Peter Ring and Andrew Van de Ven, Developmental Processes of Cooperative Interorganizational Relationships, Academy of Management Review, 19(1): 90-118. Translated in Italian and reprinted in Sviluppo & Organizzazione (Journal of the Center of Business Organizational Research of the Bocconi University of Milan), 1995.
1999	Andrew Van de Ven and D. Grazman, Evolution in a nested Hierarchy: A geneoglogy of Twin-Cities health care organizations, 1953-1995. In Joel Baum and Bill McKelvey (Eds.), Variations in organization science: Perspectives in honor of Donald T. Campbell. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
2004	Andrew H. Van de Ven and Timothy J. Hargrave, Social, technical, and institutional change: A literature review and synthesis. In M. S. Poole & A. H. Van de Ven (Eds.), Handbook of Organizational Change (pp. 259-303). New York: Oxford University Press.
2005	Andrew H. Van de Ven, Running in packs to develop knowledge-intensive technologies. MIS Quarterly, 29(2): 365-378.
2006	Andrew H. Van de Ven and Peter S. Ring, Relying on trust in corporate inter-organizational relationships. Forthcoming in R. Bachmannand A. Zaheer (Eds.), Handbook of trust research.
2006	Timothy Hargrave and Andrew H. Van de Ven, A collective action model of institutional innovation. Academy of Management Review. 31(4): 864-888. top

Methods for Studying Organizational Change Processes

1987	Andrew H. Van de Ven, Review essay: Four requirements for processual analysis. In Andrew Pettigrew (Ed.), The management of strategic change. London: Basil Blackwell.
1988	Andrew H. Van de Ven and Everett M. Rogers, Innovations and organizations: Critical perspectives. Communications Research, 15(5): 632-651.
1988	Andrew H. Van de Ven, Requirements for studying innovation processes. In Yuji Ijiri (Ed.), New directions in creative and innovative management. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger.
1990	Andrew H. Van de Ven and George Huber, Longitudinal field research methods for studying processes of organizational change. Organizational Science, 1(3).
1990	Andrew H. Van de Ven and Marshall Scott Poole, Methods for studying innovation developments in the Minnesota Innovation Research Program, Organization Science, 1(3).
1991	Andrew H. Van de Ven, Longitudinal methods for studying the process of entrepreneurship. In D. L. Sexton (Ed.), Entrepreneurship in the 1990s, PWS-Kent Publishers.
1992	Andrew H. Van de Ven, Suggestions for studying strategy process, Strategic Management Journal, 13(Summer): 169-188.
2002	Andrew H. Van de Ven and Marshall Scott Poole, Field research methods. In J. Baum (Ed.), Companion to organizations (pp. 867-888). London: Basil Blackwell, 2002.
2006	Andrew H. Van de Ven and Paul Johnson, Knowledge for theory and practice. Academy of Management Review, 31(4): 802-821.

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Last Updated 10/17/2006

Minnesota Innovation Research Program page of Andrew H. Van de Ven