Finding the organizational sources of technological breakthroughs: the story of Hewlett-Packard's thermal ink-jet
通过惠普热喷墨技术的发明案例，研究企业如何通过高变异试验、多样化技术组合和有效选择过程来提高技术突破的成功概率。
Which firms are more likely to invent technological breakthroughs, such as Hewlett-Packard's invention of the thermal ink-jet? I induct theory for this question by interpreting the history of the breakthrough as a recombinant and boundedly rational search process. The firm increased its odds of success by generating many high-variance inventive trials; it mixed and juxtaposed diverse technologies, professions and experience, managed by objective and collocated. The firm exploited this variance with effective selection processes, strong socialization norms, deep experience with the components of invention, rapid prototyping and testing, and scientific knowledge and method. Copyright 2002, Oxford University Press.