Top teams as architects: The role of top management teams in constructing appropriate organizational architectures to facilitate context responsive flows of innovation

Abstract

This paper: (i) examines the role of Top Management Teams (TMTs) in constructing bundles of dynamic capabilities related to innovation within their organisations; (i) introduces a new framework that defines the variety of ways, or modalities, that TMTs can use to create and maintain appropriate organisational architectures that facilitate context‐responsive flows of innovation within their organisations and (iii) presents a methodology being used experimentally by the authors with TMTs to improve their organisational architectural design capabilities in relation to innovation.