Intrapreneurial Self-Capital and Sustainable Innovative Behavior within Organizations

In an Unpredictable and Changing Environment: Intrapreneurial Self-Capital As a Key Resource for Life Satisfaction and Flourishing

The twenty-first century is characterized by an unpredictable and challenging work environment, and the Intrapreneurial Self-Capital (ISC) career and life construct can be seen as a core of individual intrapreneurial resources that enables people to cope with ongoing challenges, changes, and transitions founding innovative solutions when confronted with the constraints imposed by such an enviro...

Social capital as an enabler for sustainable knowledge management in organizations

While the importance of knowledge management in organizations and its benefits as innovative powers and a competitive edge is a widely accepted notion in our field of research, it lacks contributions that focus on how knowledge management can be performed in a sustainable way. If we rely so strongly on knowledge management, we should strive for it that current knowledge practices respect both p...

Minimal Activity Plans: Artifacts for Self-Organized Learning within Organizations

In this paper we present an educational approach to foster selforganized learning within organizations. Based on the notion that learning as well as work is embedded in collectively organized and artifact mediated activity systems and that learning entails individual and social transformation we outline the concept of Minimal Activity Plans and describe potential use cases. In order to organize...

Capital Interconvertibility in Complex Organizations

Identifying various capital species in use and understanding how to convert them into more tradable forms of capital is a complex task. In this paper, we discuss how unique knowledge and relational skills have facilitated capital conversion to nurture innovation and growth in a Scandinavian telecommunication corporation. The core of our discussion is to explore the parts and the process that dr...

Innovative Organizations: Structure, Learning and Adaptation