Thank you so much Paul for that observation! Haha, yes it is a mathematical formula and what you told me makes more sense.

One small note (only a little OCD), your representation of the innovation formula is not quite written correctly. Specifically:

f (innovation) = (org * arch)(mechanisms * culture)

This says that there exists some function *of* innovation that equals the rest. That is, ‘innovation’ is an input to the function, and in fact the result does not depend on innovation at all.

What you should write is:

innovation = f( (org * arch)(mechanisms * culture) )

That says that innovation *is* a function of the rest. That is, that innovation is a result or output of some function, where the inputs are org, arch, mechanisms and culture in directly proportional and exponential relationships. Which aligns with what your saying in your text 🙂

Cheers.