Understanding How Organizational Culture Typology Relates to Organizational Unlearning and Innovation Capabilities

Linking Unlearning with Innovation through Organizational Memory and Technology

While the information technologies provide organizational members with explicit concepts, such as writing instruction manuals, the ‘organizational memory’ provides individuals with tacit knowledge, such as systematic sets, routines and shared visions. This means that individuals within an organization learn by using both the organizational memory and the information technologies. They interact ...

Organizational process alignment, culture and innovation

This study explores the relationships between organizational process alignment, culture and innovation. Based on previous studies, this study proposed a conceptual model and hypothesized that three kinds of process alignments (structural, information technology (IT) and strategic alignments) positively affect adaptability culture, which in turn facilitate process and product innovations. Using ...

The Nature of Organizational Unlearning

Why and How to be Ambidextrous? The Relationship between Environmental Factors, Innovation Strategy and Organizational Capabilities

“Organizational ambidexterity” has become an emerging research trend in both the organizational management and knowledge management field (Gibson & Birkinshaw, 2004; He & Wong, 2004). The central theme on organizational ambidexterity is about organizational capability to simultaneously deal with paradoxical or conflicting activities such as organizational alignment and adaptation; evolutionary ...

The Innovation Value Chain and Organizational Culture

This paper presents the findings of a study of the relationship between organizational culture and innovation. The particular contribution of this study is mainly its focus on the Innovation Value Chain (thus how organizations generate new ideas, convert them to products or services, and subsequently spread these) and how this might be related to organizational culture. The theoretical basis wa...