The presented thesis addresses the topic of innovation corporate culture and instruments of measurement. The thesis is built systematically from the general to the specific. The first part deals with the general definition of culture and its characteristics, and further it is described the phenomenon of organizational culture with the elements, by which is determined. The last theoretical part is about the definition of a specific type of corporate culture, of which domain is to support long-term innovation capability. It is based on literature review on this topic. Then it is introduced several tools that try to measure innovation culture or similar concepts and these are commented in relation just to the definition of an innovation culture. The following part is research, which contains the results of the use of tools, which was developed by Rao and Weintraub (2013) and evaluation of this tool. This tool was applied to a company, by which business is consulting in the field of innovation and designing of new products and services. The research was conducted for the basic purpose of the tool - measuring the innovation corporate culture, but to evaluate the quality of the measurement instrument from the perspective of validity and from the methodology of the creation of the questionnaire, too. The...

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Die individuelle Bereitschaft für organisationale Veränderungen stellt eine zentrale Determinante des innovationsförderlichen Führungsverhaltens sowie der Innovativität von Unternehmen dar. Die Dissertation fragte daher nach der Entstehung und Förderung der Innovationsbereitschaft von Führungskräften und untersuchte die darauf bezogene Wirkung der organisationalen Absorptionsfähigkeit. Innovationsbereitschaft wurde hierbei verstanden als das Erkennen und positive Bewerten eines Veränderungsbedarfes sowie einer Veränderbarkeit der unternehmensinternen Situation. Organisationale Absorptionsfähigkeit wurde definiert als dreidimensionales Konstrukt des Erkennens, Aufnehmens und Verwertens von neuem, unternehmensexternem Wissen. Das postulierte Wirkungsmodell wurde mit einer quantitativen Untersuchung an einer nach Größe und Branche für Deutschland repräsentativen Stichprobe von 668 kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen empirisch überprüft. Dabei zeigte sich, dass der Kontakt zu externem Wissen den wahrgenommenen Veränderungsbedarf erhöhte, während die systematische Verarbeitung und Weitergabe dieses Wissens die wahrgenommene Veränderbarkeit der Unternehmenssituation positiv beeinflussten. Bisherige Prozessinnovationen reduzierten den wahrgenommenen Veränderungsbedarf, während inkrementelle Prozess- und Strukturveränderungen des Unternehmens positiv auf die Einschätzung der Veränderbarkeit wirkten. Damit konnte der Einfluss der organisationalen Absorptionsfähigkeit auf die Innovationsbereitschaft von Führungskräften differenziert werden, forschungstheoretische und forschungsmethodische Implikationen sowie Empfehlungen für die Unternehmenspraxis wurden entsprechend abgeleitet.

<p>Hotelijerstvo predstavlja važnu komponentu razvoja turizma u Srbiji. Predmet<br />doktorske disertacije je ispitivanje trenutnog stanja i stepena inovativnosti hotela&nbsp; u<br />Srbiji.&nbsp; U dana&scaron;njem poslovnom okruženju sposobnost hotela da pruži inovativna<br />re&scaron;enja svojim gostima osnov je za stvaranje i održavanje konkurentske prednosti.<br />Istraživanje stanja inovativnosti jedno je od ključnih sredstava za dobijanje<br />informacija u kojim segmentima poslovanja je neophodno vr&scaron;iti pobolj&scaron;anja kako bi<br />se obezbedio optimalan kvalitet&nbsp; hotelskog proizvoda i postigao &scaron;to bolji poslovni<br />rezultat.</p><p>Cilj istraživanja je da se utvrdi&nbsp; u kom stepenu&nbsp; organizacioni faktori:&nbsp; transformaciono<br />liderstvo,&nbsp; transakciono liderstvo,&nbsp; dimenzije&nbsp; organizacione&nbsp; klime&nbsp; i&nbsp; dimenzije<br />organizacionog&nbsp; učenje dorpinose&nbsp; inovacijama u hotelima, kao i&nbsp; da ispita meuodnose<br />ovih varijabli. Takodje u disertaciji je ispitano u kojoj meri inovacije utiču na<br />stvaranje vrednosti za goste.</p><p>Metodologija istraživanja obuhvatila je kabinetsko i terensko istraživanje. Uzorak je<br />ĉinilo 512 ispitanika zaposlenih u 57 hotela prve, druge i treće kategorije u Srbiji.&nbsp;</p><p>Rezultati istraživanja pokazuju da organizacioni faktori kao &scaron;to su transformaciono<br />liderstvo i transakciono liderstvo, organizaciona klima&nbsp; (dimenzije Kohezija, Podr&scaron;ka<br />inovacijama, Poverenje i Priznanja)&nbsp; i organizaciono učenje utiču na inovativnost<br />hotela, kao i da inovativnost hotela (posebno u pogledu inovacija u odnosu sa<br />klijentima, inovacije tehnologije, procesa i upravljaĉke inovacije) direktno doprinosi<br />stvaranju vrednosti za goste hotela.</p><p>Rezultati ovog istraživanja predstavljaju novu nauĉnu informaciju i mogli bi biti od<br />značajne pomoći menažmentu i vlasnicima hotela, zaposlenima, strukovnim<br />udruženjima, nastavnim kadrovima u turizmu i ugostiteljstvu, naučnicima i<br />istraživačima i drugima interesnim stranama, jer se naučno relevantni rezultati mogu<br />upotrebiti u kreiranju budućih odluka, mera i standarda vezanih za upravljanje<br />ljudskim resursima, otklanjanje prepreka, razvoj i promociju inovativnih aktivnosti i<br />definisanje daljih pravaca razvoja hotelskog proizvoda.</p> / <p>Hotel industry&nbsp; is an important component of tourism development in Serbia. The&nbsp;scope of the doctoral dissertation is to examine the current situation and the level of&nbsp;innovativeness in hotels in Serbia. In today&#39;s business environment the ability of a&nbsp;hotel to provide innovative solutions to its guests is the basis for creating and&nbsp;maintaining competitive advantage. The research of the current state of &nbsp;innovativeness is one of the key tools for acquiring information which business&nbsp;segments need to be improved in order to&nbsp; ensure optimal quality of a hotel product&nbsp;and achieve better business results.</p><p>The aim of the research is to determine the effect of the organizational factors such astransformational leadership, transactional leadership, organizational climate&nbsp;dimensions&nbsp; and organizational learning dimensions on innovations in hotels, as wellas&nbsp; to determine relations between these variables. In addition, the aim of thesis is&nbsp; to determine the effect of innovation on the creation of value for hotel guests.</p><p>The research methodology involved desk and field research. The sample consisted of&nbsp;&nbsp; 512 respondents employed in 57 hotels of the first, second and third category in&nbsp;Serbia.</p><p>The results showed that organizational factors such as transformational and transactional leadership, organizational climate (the Cohesion, Support for innovation, Trust and Recognition dimensions) and organizational learning affect hotel innovativeness, as well as that innovations (especially in terms of innovations related to customers, technology innovation, process innovation and management innovation) directly contribute to creating value for the hotel guests. The results of this study are new scientific information and may be a significant practical guide for hotel management, hotel owners, employees, professionals, teaching staff in the tourism and hospitality industry, scientists and researchers and other stakeholders. Scientifically relevant results can be used in making future decisions, measures and standards related to human resources management, removing obstacles, the development and promotion of innovative activities and defining further directions of development of the hotel product.</p>

Weathering the entrepreneurial storm is considered by many an art form in itself but an undeniable, universal truth is the unilateral impact of an extraordinary leader on the chances of triumph in the face of great adversity. Yet the focus of academic studies all too often concerns the understanding of the weather patterns, the choice of captain and the direction of the ship rather than how to turn the wheel, raise the mast or set the sails. This study has the aim of deciphering the routines, actions and methods of entrepreneurial leaders so as to produce tangible, actionable knowledge which real practitioners can bestow upon themselves. This is a collective case study which examines ten entrepreneurial leaders from various cities throughout Sweden using semi-structured, in-depth interviews. The findings pertain to routines, activities and methods that they use to fulfil five roles of effective entrepreneurial leadership which are further boiled down to 52 thematic strategies. These strategies are then aligned into five fundamental skills; encompassing a collective approach, building individual relationships, fragmentation, dynamic perspective and utilising feedback. We believe that through developing these skills that entrepreneurial leaders can better cultivate their own routines, activities and methods contingent to their particular circumstance and transaction set.