The Role of the Founder in Creating Organizational Culture

Schein, Edgar H.

doi:10.1111/j.1741-6248.1995.00221.x

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“…Schein, 1983). In particular, these individuals personified a spirit of openness, integrity and intellectual generosity.…”

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Twenty Challenges for Innovation Studies

Martin

2015

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With the field of innovation studies now half a century old, the occasion has been marked by several studies looking back to identify the main advances made over its lifetime. Starting from a list of 20 advances over the field's history, this discussion paper sets out 20 challenges for coming decades. At a conference in 1900, David Hilbert put forward a list of 23 unsolved mathematical problems that were to have a profound influence on the work of mathematicians during the 20 th Century. The intention here is to prompt a debate within the innovation studies community on what are, or should be, the key challenges for us to take up, and more generally on what sort of field we aspire to be. It is argued that the empirical focus of our studies has not kept pace with the fast changing world and economy, especially the shift from manufacturing to services and the growing need for sustainability. Moreover, the very way we conceptualise, define, operationalise and analyse 'innovation' seems rooted in the past, leaving us less able to grapple with other less visible or 'dark' forms of innovation.Keywords: innovation studies; science policy; challenges; achievements; dark innovation Acknowledgements A preliminary version of this paper was presented at the Lundvall symposium held at Aalborg University in February 2012. A short version (based on 15 challenges rather than 20) is being published, along with other contributions to that event, in a book on The Future of Innovation Studies (Fagerberg et al., 2013).

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“…Schein, 1983). In particular, these individuals personified a spirit of openness, integrity and intellectual generosity.…”

Section: Maintaining Our Research Integrity Sense Of Morality and Comentioning

confidence: 99%

Twenty Challenges for Innovation Studies

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2015

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“…4 He believed that a culture must fi rst have a defi nable organization in order to exist. By this, he meant "a number of people interacting with each other for the purpose of accomplishing some goal in their defi ned environment."…”

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“…By this, he meant "a number of people interacting with each other for the purpose of accomplishing some goal in their defi ned environment." 4 When that organization is also a business, the person or persons who creates the organization shapes its culture.…”

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“…He defi nes organizational culture as "the pattern of basic assumptions that a given group has invented, discovered, or developed in learning to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration, a pattern of assumptions that has worked well enough to be considered valid and, therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think, and feel in relation to those problems." 4 Any ranch owner who has worried about fi nding the best way to bring in the next generation is basically worrying about integrating new members into the ranch's organizational Table 1. Three hypothetical dimensions that restrict or encourage family businesses 3 1.…”

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“….founders/owners must have suffi cient insight into their own culture to make an intelligent transition process possible." 4 Again and clearly, family culture cannot be analyzed as a separate reality from the business culture, and Schein's analysis seems useful in attempting to defi ne a specifi c family culture. In short, the culture of true interest is actually the family-business culture mix.…”

Section: How a Culture Can Be Defi Nedmentioning

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