How long does it take to read The Management of Innovation?
Tom R. Burns, G. M. Stalker
The Management of Innovation by Tom R. Burns, G. M. Stalker takes about 4 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 56 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1961. 269 pages, about 73,975 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 5 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Management of Innovation is one of the most influential books on organization theory and industrial sociology ever written. The main question it addresses - the relationship between an organization and its market and the technological environment - continues to preoccupy researchers and managers as innovation has even greater impact on organizational structures and competitiveness. Engagingly written and wearing its scholarship lightly, the book presents the authors' now famous binary classification of 'mechanistic' or 'organic' systems. For this it has become justly famous, but the book is also a penetrating study of social systems within organizations and of organizational dynamics, covering such issues as organizational politics, the role of the chief executive and the relationship between technical staff and general managers. For this new edition, Tom Burns has written an overview of developments in organization theory and situated the book in that context.
Subjects: Electronic industries, Technological innovations, Industrial management, Great Britain, Management, Industries
