Adaptors and Innovators in Organizations
研究提出组织中不同子群体（如部门、公司、管理课程）的适应者与创新者比例存在差异，并通过实证支持这些假设，对理解组织决策和创新管理有参考价值。
It is theoretically safe to expect that collective decision-making at the managerial level, in most organizations, will be adaptor-dominated to ensure, e.g., stability and continuity; however, the organizations themselves need not necessarily be adaptor-weighted, i.e., contain more adaptors than innovators. Specific hypotheses about particular subgroups within organizations are advanced, which predict variations in the proportions of adaptors and innovators within given organizational structures. Studies are presented supporting these hypotheses. The variations examined are derived from the adaptor/innovator means of managers in: (a) different departments of a company; (b) different companies; and (c) different management courses. These variations suggest that there may even be differences between the means of practitioners of particular occupations.