Vision and Change in Institutional Entrepreneurship
The Transformation from Science to Commercialization
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 2011
Book
Hardback
184 pages
978-1-84545-767-9 (ISBN)
Description
Sheltered for a long time within the public sector environment with high job security and professional research autonomy, defense R&D organizations faced unprecedented challenges when government support was being withdrawn and closure threatening. They needed to be led by a suitable vision in order to implement comprehensive changes to their operations and remain viable. This study explores this constitution of vision as a mechanism of intentional change, a strategic tool to reach the desired future for the organization. Going beyond the current literature, the authors ask to what extent, and how, organizational members reconstruct vision in a way that it can support or detain change, a question of importance for management scholars as well as professional managers in both public and private organizations.
Reviews / Votes
"This is an excellent body of ethnographic scholarship on institutional entrepreneurship within the defense R&D sector, beautifully written and complete with a rich description of Gamma - a truly deep ethnography." ? Siri Terjesen, Indiana University"This book is a pleasure to read. It is a highly unusual ethnography that provides a window into an institutional space (nuclear research) that is virtually invisible to the public eye. Given the obvious security issues involved, it is even more remarkable that the work was done. The ethnography itself is brilliantly written, showing 'Gamma' during a major transition in organizational ethics and activities." ? Benson Honig, Teresa Cascioli Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership, MacMaster University
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Library binding
Illustrations
Bibliography; Index; 2 Figures; 7 Tables, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
403 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84545-767-9 (9781845457679)
DOI
10.3167/9781845457679
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The Transformation from Science to Commercialization
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Persons
Israel Drori is a Professor on the Faculty of the School of Business at the College of Management, Israel, and a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Management, Tel-Aviv University. His publications include Transnational and Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Globalized World (2010, Toronto University Press); The Seam Line: Arab Women and Jewish Managers in The Israeli Textile Industry (2000, Stanford University Press). He is recipient of the 2008 Clifford Geertz Prize for Best Article in Cultural Sociology for "Repertoires of Trust: The Practice of Trust in Multinational Corporation amid Political Conflict," in American Sociological Review.
Content
List of Tables and Figures
Chapter 1. Introduction
The Structure of the Book
Chapter 2. Methodology
Data Collection
Data Analysis
The Role of the Researchers
Chapter 3. Conceptual Framework
Institutional entrepreneurship: An Approach to Organizational Transformation
Planned Change Interventions
Organizational Vision
Vision and Organizational Leadership
Organizational Vision: A Facilitator of Change
Organizational Vision: A Hindrance to Change
Legitimacy as Practice Mechanism
Sensemaking Accounts as Schema for Change
Conclusions
Chapter 4. Gamma: The Evolution of Goverenmental R&D Organization
Challenges to the Mandate for Organizational Change
Managing Tensions
Conclusions
Chapter 5. Survival : The Pressure for Change
Conclusions
Chapter 6. Chang in Style, Change in Form: Regenerating the Organizational Structure
Why Change? - The Demands of Organizational Environments
Deploying Change at Gamma
Conclusions
Chapter 7. The Sensemaking for Change
Sensemaking
Confrontational Sensemaking Accounts
Change related sensemaking accounts
Conclusions
Chapter 8. The Construction of Legitimacy for Change
Competing Legitimacy: Narratives of Founding Legacy
Confrontational Narratives of legitimacy during change
Reconciling Legitimacy: survival narrative
Conclusions
Chapter 9. The envisioning Process: Building an Entrepreneurial Vision
Building a Vision: Existing Theoretical Models
Gamma's Formulation of a Entrepreneurial Vision
Conclusions
Chapter 10. The Task of Constructing Change: The Mechanism of Vision Creation
Formation of the Survival Vision
Creating Vision for Survival
Constructing Strategic Vision
Conclusions
Chapter 11. Conclusion: Vision and Change in Gamma
Conclusions
References
Chapter 1. Introduction
The Structure of the Book
Chapter 2. Methodology
Data Collection
Data Analysis
The Role of the Researchers
Chapter 3. Conceptual Framework
Institutional entrepreneurship: An Approach to Organizational Transformation
Planned Change Interventions
Organizational Vision
Vision and Organizational Leadership
Organizational Vision: A Facilitator of Change
Organizational Vision: A Hindrance to Change
Legitimacy as Practice Mechanism
Sensemaking Accounts as Schema for Change
Conclusions
Chapter 4. Gamma: The Evolution of Goverenmental R&D Organization
Challenges to the Mandate for Organizational Change
Managing Tensions
Conclusions
Chapter 5. Survival : The Pressure for Change
Conclusions
Chapter 6. Chang in Style, Change in Form: Regenerating the Organizational Structure
Why Change? - The Demands of Organizational Environments
Deploying Change at Gamma
Conclusions
Chapter 7. The Sensemaking for Change
Sensemaking
Confrontational Sensemaking Accounts
Change related sensemaking accounts
Conclusions
Chapter 8. The Construction of Legitimacy for Change
Competing Legitimacy: Narratives of Founding Legacy
Confrontational Narratives of legitimacy during change
Reconciling Legitimacy: survival narrative
Conclusions
Chapter 9. The envisioning Process: Building an Entrepreneurial Vision
Building a Vision: Existing Theoretical Models
Gamma's Formulation of a Entrepreneurial Vision
Conclusions
Chapter 10. The Task of Constructing Change: The Mechanism of Vision Creation
Formation of the Survival Vision
Creating Vision for Survival
Constructing Strategic Vision
Conclusions
Chapter 11. Conclusion: Vision and Change in Gamma
Conclusions
References