Abstract
Organizational culture is an important determinant of sustained innovativeness and financial performance. Though it is easy to appreciate the important role culture plays in making an innovation successful, it is difficult to change culture. One way of changing culture could be to identify elements of innovative culture and then imbibing the ones relevant to a given organization. In this paper, we have identified, based on past research, eight elements of organizational innovative culture: innovative mission and vision statements, democratic communication, safe spaces, flexibility, collaboration, boundary spanning, incentives, and leadership. We believe that assimilating these elements of organizational culture will enable organizations to support and sustain innovative activities.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 190-202 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Knowledge and Process Management |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2007 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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- Management of Technology and Innovation
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Elements of innovative cultures. / Dombrowski, Caroline; Kim, Jeffrey Y.; Desouza, Kevin C.; Braganza, Ashley; Papagari, Sridhar; Baloh, Peter; Jha, Sanjeev.
In: Knowledge and Process Management, Vol. 14, No. 3, 01.01.2007, p. 190-202.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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AU - Baloh, Peter
AU - Jha, Sanjeev
PY - 2007/1/1
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