Professionals and Innovation: Structural-Functional Thinking versus Radical-Structural perspctive

Abstract

studying the role of the professionals in the
process of organizational innovation has been
always under the influence of
structural-functional thought.
The hypotheses of such a thought while has
been tested and analysed has shown that this
method finally has led to certain ambigous and
unstable findings. An alternative approach
based on radical-structural principle for
application of such research methodology has
been proposed