Businesses face growing instability due to disruptive innovative technologies and economic crises arising from stressed supply chains or rising price uncertainty. An ambidextrous approach to resilience helps companies to prepare for and manage this uncertainty to become steadfast against crises. However, resilience can be achieved on multiple…

Higher education culture is steeped in institutional identity and ties to history. But what happens when that history is challenged, and an institution must change its name? While a merger was not initially intended for Kearney State College, merging into the University of Nebraska system was the only way to reflect the change and growth that…

Purpose: In the era of hyper-competitiveness, firms, especially project-based management structures, have to focus on ideas for both new and existing sets of products and services, i.e. ambidextrous innovation. The ambidextrous innovation can be helpful, but achieving such a level is a problem to be solved. This study aims to yield ambidextrous…

This article offers key considerations regarding how leadership educators can alter their relations with institutions and campus community members (e.g., students, faculty, staff) to align with and advance liberatory struggles. The article also explores the drawbacks and contradictions of institutionalizing liberation within leadership learning…

Purpose: The competency trap can occur when organizations become resistant to change due to their existing competencies, leading to a culture of complacency and hindering adaptability and innovation. This paper aims to understand this trap and its hindrance to organizational learning and knowledge acquisition. The study aims to integrate employee…

Purpose: This study aims to explore the impact of knowledge management (KM) on the development of an innovative culture in learning organizations from emerging economies. Design/methodology/approach: A quantitative study using a survey was carried out, achieving a pooled cross-sectional sample of 10,567 workers, made up of 69 larger Chilean…

This qualitative case study examined changes resulting from implementing a democratic strategic planning process and leadership characteristics that influence organizational change. The study's research questions are explored through the lens of Kotter's (2019) 8 Accelerators and 4 Change Principles. Purposeful sampling was used to select the case…

This narrative study examined the experiences of senior leaders as they described their involvement in a successful merger within higher education. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six senior leaders from merging colleges in the Midwest. This study utilized efficiency theory as the theoretical framework. Transcripts and research data…

Performance support solutions integrate steps, procedures, information, and advice and make them available to learners at the moment of need in the flow of their day-to-day work. These types of solutions were introduced in the early 1990s but have not had significant traction in organizations despite many espoused benefits. This study examined…

This phenomenological research study explores the lived experiences of full-time faculty experiencing both organizational and instructional changes within their institution. Higher education organizations are facing increased challenges to sustainability, forcing them to make structural changes within the organization. When organizations adopt new…

Appreciative inquiry is a strength-based organisational transformation approach developed in 1987 by David Cooperrider at Case Western Reserve. It is based on the idea that organisational change is more effective when the approach focuses on the positive attributes and experiences within an organisation instead of the challenges. Several studies…

This article explores the implementation of cross-functional professional learning communities (PLCs) involving faculty, staff and administrators at three different institutional types -- research, urban regional, and rural regional universities -- with the goal of learning about and then implementing a culture change approach to support academic…

The purpose of this study was to explore the opinions of administrators about the effect of administrator replacement circulation in non-formal education institutions providing adult education on organizational culture. In this qualitative study, ten randomly selected administrators were interviewed using the convenience sampling method. The data…

Academic drift has been a central concept in the study of higher education for the past half-century, with higher education scholarship locating the phenomenon in fieldwide status competition dynamics stemming from the postwar massification and neoliberalization of higher education. In this paper, I explore the origins and evolution of academic…

The role that the information technology (IT) department serves is governed by the corporate culture and how it values the use of knowledge, including IT, to achieve a strategic competitive advantage. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the potential relationships between information acquisition, knowledge dissemination, shared…