Which pathway to good ideas? <scp>A</scp> n attention‐based view of innovation in social networks

Luke Rhee, Paul M. Leonardi · 2017 · Strategic Management Journal

Summary. People embedded in constrained networks generate good ideas through interrogation—deeply focusing attention on information from a single contact to develop domain-specific insights. Those in less constrained networks produce ideas through recombination, dividing attention across multiple contacts. In constrained networks, interrogation proves more reliable than recombination for generating good ideas.

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Rhee, L., & Leonardi, P. M.. (2017). Which pathway to good ideas? <scp>A</scp> n attention‐based view of innovation in social networks. Strategic Management Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.2755

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DOI: 10.1002/smj.2755
Countries: United States
Regions: North America
Categories: innovation-networks, innovation-theory, general-innovation
Added: 2026-04-28