A system for continuous organizational renewal

Abstract

2010),"When and how to innovate your business model", Strategy & Leadership, Vol. 38 Iss 4 pp. 17-26 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10878571011059700 Dale E. Zand, (2009),"Strategic renewal: how an organization realigned structure with strategy", Strategy & Leadership, Vol. 37 Iss 3 pp. 23-28 http://dx.If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/ authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation.

Social Media Use and the Challenge of Complexity: Evidence from the Technology Sector

“…Managers must continuously renew themselves by engaging in various strategies to increase accessibility, contextual cues, and intrinsic interest of the information provided (Leonardi et al, 2013) in order to produce a more open-minded culture in the firm and strategically renew the organization to benefit from such information and social relations. That is, organizations must self-renew by doing established things in new ways, by stopping doing unsuccessful things, and by doing new things (Sparrow & Ringland, 2010).…”

Breaking Down The Barriers To Organizational Change

“…He and Baruch (2009) take a similar stance by calling for a transformation of organizational identity in order to enable organizational change. Sparrow and Ringland (2010) propose that organizations adopt a self-renewing framework in order to be prepared for the need for continuous organizational renewal. As stated earlier, these types of strategies are not necessarily new to the literature on organizational change.…”

Academic Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation

“…These areas indicate that organizational renewal depends heavily on the role of top management, what has been corroborated (Santos &Garcia, 2007). In contrast Sparrow and Ringland (2010) claim that "renewal seldom comes from grand central initiatives, but from many repeated small steps which collectively add up to purposeful, directed change" (p.37). These authors presented a more complex and coherent framework of Purposeful Self-Renewing Organization (PS-RO), which encompasses five qualities (Sparrow and Ringland, 2010, p. 34-35 The university context can be considered in two dimensions.…”

“…It concerns the shift from the traditionally regarded mission, embracing teaching and pure scientific research, to the mission incorporating various forms of for-profit relations with commercial organizations (Etzkowitz, 1983;Laukkanen, 2003). The organizational renewal of the university may be perceived in the same categories as presented by Sparrow and Ringland (2010) or Pöyhönen (2004). Supplemental findings are pointing toward several groups of factors impacting entrepreneurial attitudes of the university, such as (Rothearmel et al, 2007, p. 708-740 The reactions of university authorities and employees, including other researchers, to the entrepreneurial attempts of scientists are sometimes very contrasting.…”