A Culture Model as Mediator and Repository Source for Innovation

As innovation has become one of the most important competitive advantages, academic practitioner's interest in the matter has increased. But still the question that ''why lots of organizations fail in their path to be innovative is remained unanswered. In this review; among many factors influencing innovation capacity of an organization; culture is addressed. Culture is defined as a multifacet, multi-level mediator and repository that can lead organization's strive toward innovativeness; to success or failure. In this study, a model is proposed to exhibit different levels and facets of culture and it introduces various factors that influence culture. This model is based on an open system approach, in which organization is seen as an open system including internal and external relationships, systems, interactions etc. that both influences, and is influenced by, the environment. Further we conclude that the coordination of these factors is necessary for cultural integrity which can increase the innovative capacity of an organization. Since here, innovation is defined as creation and/or adoption of a novel thing (product, process, technology etc.) for the organization that brings further value to the organization's stakeholders this model can be applied for both organizations that attempt to innovate themselves or try to adopt an innovation form elsewhere.

کلیدواژه ها:

Organizational culture ، innovation ، innovation culture ، Micro ، Meso and Macro Level