Professor, University of Lausanne
In a forthcoming book chapter, I discuss the managerial challenges that cultural heritage organizations currently face and how perhaps they (should) address them. First, I define cultural heritage and cultural heritage …
The challenges of managing cultural heritage organizations Read MoreSome of the sessions devoted to exploitation and exploration of last week’s EURAM conference led me to further think about exploration (in other entries I already discussed issues of measurement and organizational …
On (the meaning of) organizational exploration: why it’s not necessarily innovation and how the analogy with territorial exploration might help us to better grasp it Read MoreIn reading E. Fivat’s dissertation proposal, one wonders whether creating agencies (“agentification”) is the appropriate solution to make public organizations more effective and efficient. Public bureaucracies have been blamed for not …
Creating public agencies or reforming public bureaucracy? Read MoreSince at least the early 1990s, several observers have argued that the USA suffers from an artistic deficit. Most of them have claimed that cultural organizations – in particular, performing art …
Artistic deficit and the determinants of cultural programming and innovation Read MoreWhat drives firms to choose to develop, produce and commercialize a new product alone rather than in collaboration with another industry incumbent? We (Garrette, Castañer and Dussauge, 2009) argue that, surprisingly, past research has for …
Choosing to introduce a new product alone or in collaboration Read MoreSome readers might ask themselves why in my entry on defining entrepreneurship I put “new” good in quotes and why I didn’t include innovation as one of the concepts related to entrepreneurship. …
Entrepreneurship is not always innovative – on the meaning/referent of innovation Read MoreThe meaning of the dynamic capability term in the organizational literature seems to be evolving. The original meaning of Teece et al (1997) had somewhat of a tautological character as …
How should a dynamic capability be defined Read MoreAmbidexterity refers to the ability to perform the same task equally well with both hands. So, for instance, one is ambidextrous if one can write equally well with either hand. I believe …
The concept of organizational ambidexterity – or why we shouldn’t use this term in the way it’s now Read More