Organizational Culture and Innovations
Organizational Culture and Innovations

Summary/Abstract: The article is based on the experience of designing and delivering special courses at the University and enterprises implementing active learning programs. The dynamic capabilities to innovate and change are deeply rooted in an organization’s ability to be ambidextrous, i.e. both to incrementally build on its traditions and past (cultural experience) and to learn and be able to drive innovation streams. The article deals with theoretical investigations and case studies of business and educational organizations. The researches conducted by foreign and Lithuanian investigators reveal a number of similar dimensions related to the role of organizational culture in managing strategic innovations and changes. Researchers stress deeply-rooted, strong organizational culture as a factor contributing to sustained innovation associated with the norms and values that support the generation and implementation of creative ideas. The article is aimed at overweighing some conflicting and contradictory evaluations of culture influence on organizational development (e.g., strong cultures induce uniformity and limit individual creativity). A lot of investigations manifest that strong cultures foster better strategic creativity management. Focusing on economic and educational developments as the level of this comparative analysis, the discussion is started with a brief explanation of integrating notions of organization change and culture based on the norms that foster creativity, innovation, implementation and successful development in the competitive and complex, if not supercomplex, world. Moreover, an attempt is made to overweigh some conflicting and contradicting considerations about culture as an agent inducing uniformity and limiting individual creativity. However, a lot of researches prove the fact that strong cultures with innovation-enhancing values and norms foster better strategic management in terms of producing and implementing relevant and the most advanced ideas.

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