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Author Drori, Israel

Title Vision and change in institutional entrepreneurship : the transformation from science to commercialization / Israel Drori and Dana Landau
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 159 pages)
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
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research autonomy, defense R & D organizations faced unprecedented challenges when government support was being withdrawn and closure threatening.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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Defense industries -- Israel -- Management -- Case studies
Research, Industrial -- Israel -- Laboratories -- Case studies
Organizational change -- Israel -- Case studies
Organizational behavior -- Israel -- Case studies
Corporate culture -- Israel -- Case studies
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Entrepreneurship.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- General.
Corporate culture
Defense industries -- Management
Organizational behavior
Organizational change
Research, Industrial -- Laboratories
Israel
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Landau, Dana
ISBN 9781845459840
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