OSUL2013: Fostering Organizational Change through a Grassroots Planning Process

Grassroots Efforts in Contemporary Urban Mapping: An Analysis of Alternative Uses of Collaborative Platforms

Technologies have started to overlap new virtual communication and information layers on top of the urban physical territory, thus bringing along distinct possibilities of social organization. Regarding this phenomenon and intending to achieve improvement in a great variety of fields from Politics to Urban Planning, the terms of Smart or Digital Cities among others have been adopted, still with...

Community Organizational Learning: Case Studies Illustrating a Three- Dimensional Model of Levels and Orders of Change

We present a three-dimensional cube framework to help community organizational researchers and administrators think about an organization’s learning and empowerment-related structures and processes in terms of firstorder (incremental or ameliorative) and second-order (transformative) change at the individual, organizational, and community levels. To illustrate application of the framework, case...

The Ghana Community-based Health Planning and Services Initiative: Fostering Evidence-based Organizational Change and Development in a Resource- constrained Setting

Fostering organizational change through a community-based initiative.

Program funders and managers are increasingly interested in fostering changes in the policies, practices, and procedures of organizations participating in community-based initiatives. But little is known about what factors contribute to the institutionalization of change. In this study, the authors assess whether the organizational members of the Bronx Health REACH Coalition have begun to chang...

Strategically creative: A case of the library planning process

Best planning day ever, green, fun, play, flexible ... are terms not usually associated with strategic planning. At the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), plans to open a new library building in 2016 have ignited discussions about the library of the future, its meaning and role in a digital world, and the implications of further rapid changes. The Library’s strategic planning process in 20...