Vision and Change in Institutional Entrepreneurship
Drori, Israel; Landau, Dana
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Hardback. 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research autonomy, defense R&D organizations faced unprecedented challenges when government support was being withdrawn and closure threatening.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.. Num Pages: 184 pages, 7 tables, 2 figs. BIC Classification: 1FBH; KJH; KJR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 17. Weight in Grams: 416.
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research autonomy, defense R&D organizations faced unprecedented challenges when government support was being withdrawn and closure threatening.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 ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845457679
SKU
V9781845457679
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99-15
About Drori, Israel; Landau, Dana
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Vision and Change in Institutional Entrepreneurship
“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 ... Read more