What is it about?
This paper examines through a sensemaking lens the transforming nature of scientists’ work role in Public Research Organizations (PROs) resulting from organizational innovations
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Why is it important?
The novelty of this paper is in the un-discussed role of organizational innovations in enabling new work roles for scientists in public research centers and how scientists make sense of and react to these innovations. This paper could be beneficial for PROs facing pressure toward restructuring.
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My qualitative study focused on work role transition and identity processes amongst scientists in traditional PROs. It reveals tensions regarding organizational restructuring, to the extent that organizational innovations changing scientific work conflict with organizational norms, procedures, and reward structures in hierarchical, bureaucratic PROs.
PhD Carlos Martin-Rios
Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne
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This page is a summary of: Sensemaking of organizational innovation and change in public research organizations, International Journal of Organizational Analysis, July 2016, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/ijoa-07-2014-0784.
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