Dr. D. K. Srivastava

Sayan Banerjee

Abstract

The purpose ofthis research was to understand innovation and its relationship with various co relates. Since it is difficult to measure innovation hence a measure of entrepreneurialstrategy and organizational innovation devised by (Miller and friesen, 1980) was taken to do this work .In this work we have tried to understand Innovation by relating it with other variables like Organizational structures, Environmental uncertainty etc. Though some work has been done to understand innovation and entrepreneurial strategy yetnot much thought has been given to the different sub dimensions ofculture and structure to understand entrepreneurial strategy or innovation in a given context. In this paper some relationships from the literature have been analyzed keeping the aspect of power distance in mind. Power distance is a very important dimension of culture. While examining innovation with regard to factors like organizational structures and environmental uncertainty, another variable known as innovation norms, was also taken into account. Implications can be discussed for the integration ofthis previously unexamined variable-innovation norms and power -distance to extend theories of innovation and corporate entrepreneurship. This research should have a very high impact factor and should be very importantfor furtherresearch studies in India as veryfew studies have been done in the Indian context.

Keywords- Organizational Structure, Organisational theory, Innovation