Three essays on organizational innovation and creativity using text-based approaches.

This dissertation aims at presenting some contextual factors that influence innovation,
including economic, institutional, and cultural factors, which are critical for understanding
the complex and dynamic environment in which innovation occurs. It consists of three
empirical studies that leverage novel text-based measures and methodological advancements
to generate new insights to inform innovation theory. Chapter one explores how to synthesize
innovation knowledge generated from academic and industrial endeavors by analyzing the
language used in patent documents and scientific publications. Chapter two investigates how
institutional interventions modify the competitive space of firms and affect their disclosure
behavior by studying the impact of perceived competition on the dissemination of innovation
or R&D findings on a regulatory platform. Finally, chapter three examines how dynastic
embeddedness enables and constrains innovation production by developing theory and
testing the relationship between the dynastic roots of producers and creative productions