Exam 11: Managing Innovation and Change

Van de Ven and his colleagues (1999)identify three main stages of the innovation journey.Shockwaves created by the inability to cope with change inside or outside the organization causes people to rethink the organization's strategies,capabilities,procedures,products resources and so on,this is an example of the ______ period

Your textbook identifies four types of change;change that occurs through the interplay,tensions,and contradictions of social relations is called ______ change.

According to Anderson and Tuhsman (1990),the transition phase between technology s-curves induces what is known as ______.

What important argument does Jeffrey Pfeffer add to the concept of innovation?

Who argued,'creative systems are systems in tension and the price paid for creative potential is an unknown long-term future'?

Which of the following is a core idea in Clayton M.Christensen's concept of the Innovator's Dilemma?

Van de Ven and his colleagues (1999)identify three main stages of the innovation journey.The stage where the new is integrated with the old,and the change succeeds or fails,is accepted or rejected,is typical of the ______ period

Van de Ven and his colleagues (1999)identify four roles of mangers in the innovation cycle.Which of the following is NOT one of those four?

According to chapter 11 of your textbook,why do most change and innovation programs fail?

Pettigrew (1990)saw change as ______.

Richard T.Pascale (1999)identified four principles derived from complexity theory and applied them to change and innovation.An organization that stops to think too long or fails to keep moving forward would be characteristic of which of the following?

Which of the following is NOT one of the three critical change initiatives identified by Larry Hirschhorn (2002)?

Richard T.Pascale (1999)identified four principles derived from complexity theory and applied them to change and innovation.Which of the following is NOT one of those?

According to your textbook,routine can be managed ______,while innovation needs to be managed ______.Which of the following pairs is correct?

Your textbook identifies four types of change;change that emerges out of strategic vision and missions is called ______ change.

Who defines innovation and change as 'the specific tool of entrepreneurs,the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or service.It is capable of being presented,as a discipline,capable of being learned,capable of being practiced.'

According to Richard T.Pascale (1999),in organizations,a complex system is maintained through apparently chaotic and unstable systems: for example,there are several iterations of prototype products as the designers deal with errors and design flaws before they are finally produced.Such a case is characteristic of which of the following?

What were the insights drawn from Andy Van de Ven and his colleague's (1999)Minnesota Innovation Research Program?

Hammer and Champy (1993)developed what is called ______.This approach to change involved analysing all core organizational activities,then radically rethinking and redesigning the organization without being limited by its history or past.

Which of the following is the common theme that can be found in management scholars (such as Van de Ven and Weick),and philosophers (such as Nietzsche and Derrida),regarding the future outcomes of change and innovation?