Reconceptualising innovation failure
这篇文献综述研究了创新失败的概念，发现其缺乏统一定义，并从过程维度重新概念化为实验、判断和事件三种类型，对创新管理研究者有参考价值。
This study examines the concept of innovation failure. It is a problematic subject without an accepted definition. For different stakeholders the same innovation can be both a success and a failure at the same time. The academic literature has concentrated on the determinants of innovation success. Yet, there is a notable lack of academic literature that deals with innovation failure as a topic in its own right. As a result, there is limited attention to, and little consensus on, the meaning of innovation failure. Existing definitions imply a highly contingent conceptualisation of innovation failure informed by the different theoretical framings and disciplinary interests of the researchers. We adopt a systematic literature review methodology that examines the concept of innovation failure at the level of the firm and from an innovation management perspective. The findings of this review are based on a total of 69 peer-reviewed articles from 1977 to 2021. We find the concept is widely used yet poorly defined and frequently lacks any theoretical underpinning. By means of a theory-building inductive synthesis our findings contribute to research by reconceptualising the concept of innovation failure along three processual dimensions: failure-as-experimentation; −judgement and -event.