R. Germain, THE ROLE OF CONTEXT AND STRUCTURE IN RADICAL AND INCREMENTAL LOGISTICS INNOVATION ADOPTION, Journal of business research, 35(2), 1996, pp. 117-127
An analysis of manufacturers was undertaken to examine the adoption of
logistics process innovation. A typology of innovation was created on
innovation cost and radicalness. The results reveal that size and env
ironmental uncertainty directly predict expensive, radical but not low
-cost, incremental innovation. Specialization predicts both. Decentral
ization of logistics process innovation adoption decision-making predi
cts low-cost, incremental innovation but not expensive, radical innova
tion, whereas decentralization of manufacturing operations does not pr
edict logistics process innovation. Finally, although integration does
not predict low-cost, incremental innovation, it inversely predicts h
igh-cost, radical innovation.