Seismic Change and Micro-Innovation

Book Review: Innovation and Change in English Language Education

  It is widely accepted that today’s technological world is moving in a much more speed than the past, which requires the skill of keeping up with the pace of change. This change and innovation is a must for all organizations. According to Shen (2008, p. 73), this change is trickier in the educational context, where "the nature of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of those i...

Organizational Innovation and Organizational Change

Three ideas—a complex division of labor, an organic structure, and a highrisk strategy—provoke consistent findings relative to organizational innovation. Of these three ideas, the complexity of the division of labor is most important because it taps the organizational learning, problem-solving, and creativity capacities of the organization. The importance of a complex division of labor has been...

Innovation, Change and Rule-breaking

Competitive dynamics impact a firm’s necessity to adapt its capabilities permanently and to generate innovations continuously. Therefore, management practice claims for continuous change and the generation of substantial innovations. However, to a certain degree, change and innovation are associated with a break of a firm’s existing mode of operation. Routines and underlying rulesystems become ...

Fourth Movement : Innovation and Change

Organizational Learning, Innovation, and Change

• Set against the baseline perspective that health care organizations are complex adaptive systems whose future states are unpredictable and unknowable, the purpose of this chapter is to introduce a perspective of health care organizations that borrows from quantum theory and chaos theory to describe innovation and change not as rational, controllable processes, but instead as complex, uncertai...