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Vision and change in institutional entrepreneurship : the transformation from science to commercialization / Israel Drori and Dana Landau.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Drori, Israel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Defense industries--Israel--Management--Case studies.
- Defense industries.
- Research, Industrial--Israel--Laboratories--Case studies.
- Research, Industrial.
- Organizational change--Israel--Case studies.
- Organizational change.
- Organizational behavior--Israel--Case studies.
- Organizational behavior.
- Corporate culture--Israel--Case studies.
- Corporate culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (167 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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research autonomy, defense R&D organizations faced unprecedented challenges when government support was being withdrawn and closure threatening.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
- Contents:
- VISION AND CHANGE IN INSTITUTIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP; Contents; Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 - Introduction; Chapter 2 - Methodology; Chapter 3 - Conceptual Framework; Chapter 4 - Gamma: The Evolution of a Governmental R&D Organization; Chapter 5 - Survival: The Pressure for Change; Chapter 6 - Change in Style, Change in Form: Regenerating the Organizational Structure; Chapter 7 - Sensemaking for Change: Striving for Coherent Sensemaking Accounts; Chapter 8 - The Construction of Legitimacy for Change; Chapter 9 - The Envisioning Process: Building an Entrepreneurial Vision
- Chapter 10 - The Task of Constructing Change: The Mechanism of Vision CreationChapter 11 - Conclusions: Vision and Change in Gamma; Notes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781845459840
- 1845459849
- OCLC:
- 727649477
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