ERIC Number: ED669109
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 302
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Creating a Collaborative Culture: Can Online Learning Circles Spark Innovation and Promote Intrapreneurship?
Christian Deveaux Greer
ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Pepperdine University
Traditional organizational structures can be stubbornly inflexible and woefully under-optimized for cross-departmental project collaboration. Leaders seeking to innovate within the confines of these structures often have to empower themselves to create ad hoc agile teams that foster creative problem-solving, unlock social capital, and generate value early and often. As the President & CEO of a nonprofit science center in the Midwest, I have discovered that some of our most valuable ideas have sprouted and bloomed because distributed leaders, operating essentially as intrapreneurs, discovered ways to use their informal social networks to break through silos and successfully collaborate across departmental lines. But I have often wondered, what would happen if our distributed leaders could go one step further and collectively redraw the existing lines of organizational structure to foster better collaboration? The following action research study, facilitated during the outbreak of COVID-19, honors distributed leadership and explores how online learning circles can be used as intentional structures for agile project work in virtual spaces to transform traditional organizational frameworks from being hierarchical and siloed, to being flat and flexible, while sparking innovation, promoting intrapreneurship, and creating a collaborative culture in the workplace. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Communities of Practice, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Administrative Organization, Cooperation, COVID-19, Pandemics, Organizational Culture, Leadership
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Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
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Language: English
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