Countering the common belief that the larger an organization, the less the innovation, Gary Pisano’s Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation presents evidence, garnered over a long period of research, that lack of innovation is less a result of size than it is of organizational systems, management, and culture. Pisano points to large organizations that have been instrumental in invention and innovation, among them IBM, Monsanto, Amazon, and Apple. In Innovation Capital: How to Compete—and Win—like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders Jeff Dyer, Nathan Furr, and Curtis Lefrandt also place less emphasis on small business and more on actualization presentation, and attention of ideas, especially in a crowded marketplace. This volume includes interviews with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. By contrast the thesis of James Bessen’s The New Goliaths: How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation, and Undermine Regulation is that proprietary software negatively impacts innovation and competition. Bessen’s argument is well supported and he argues for new rules to incentivize the use of open software and platforms.
