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ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
Volume 48, Issue 1, Pages 117-134Publisher
ACAD MANAGEMENT
DOI: 10.5465/amj.2005.15993150
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Two qualitative studies in the U.K. health care sector trace eight purposefully selected innovations. Complex, contested, and nonlinear innovation careers emerged. Developing the nonlinear perspective on innovation spread further, we theorize that multi-professionalization shapes nonspread. Social and cognitive boundaries between different professions retard spread, as individual professionals operate within unidisciplinary communities of practice. This new theory helps explain barriers to the spread of innovation in multiprofessional organizations in both health care and other settings.
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