Antecedents of New Business Idea Generation In Large, Established Firms

Despite its importance as a potential source of variation within industries, little is currently known about the antecedents of new business ideas in large, established firms. While a number of organization and management literatures address, tangentially, issues pertaining to this topic, none examines it directly. We aim in this paper to contribute to building a body of research that directly addresses idea generation in corporate contexts.From a conceptual standpoint, we propose a theoretical framework of the roles corporate context (viewed from an attentional and information processing perspective) and individual knowledge play in influencing the nature of new business ideas generated by an organization’s members. In so doing, we put forward the concept of new business idea sets: the complete stock of new business ideas a person is considering at any given ...