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Dunning, Robert Scott; Sincoff, Michael Z. – 1978
In long established research organizations, it is necessary to safeguard good research ideas originating at lower organizational levels. The upward progress of unusually good ideas in an organizational hierarchy may be compared with that of ordinary ideas by means of a mathematical model, with the assumption that ideas follow a Poisson…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Bureaucracy, Communication (Thought Transfer), Group Structure